Pick a piece of music to animate to, and cut it into a 15-30 second sound clip (wav files work great).
Use the modeling and shading techniques to build your world, and use maya's animation tools to animate it. The focus on this project is using music to choreograph movement. You can use any shapes you like, complex models are not required. Lights, cameras, shaders and deformers can all be animated as well, and can add tremendous life to a scene.
When your animation is finished, you will render out the sequence and merge it with sound in aftereffects, final cut pro, or other video editing software.
What: A quicktime or comparable movie file containing a rendered, animated music video.
When: Wednesday, April 8th
Check out some of the examples of the fall 2008 class below:
Other inspiration:
Autechre video
Synthetic Aspirations
Animusic
Claire De Lune
