Feb 20 20095 Minute Video Made From 6,000 Paintings

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Wow. Amazing. It's called....animation. Who would have ever dreamed that someone could do this, make a movie out of paintings.

Dude should open a theme park.

W00t. Can I please say FIRST!

Wow, this is my first time in being first. I would like to thank the directors, the fans, the little guy who lives in my attic - don't really know his name but meh.

Also I would like to thank the GW for this time in fame.

SUCK ON IT BITCHES IM FIRST!!!1

It's basically a 3d animation that was painted over in software. So..rendering out 6000 frames of animation, and then painting over it. Seems like that's what it was based on the credits, anyway.

Too early for shitty music...

seriously, one of the coolest things i've seen in a long time.

Damn you 1 and 2 for jacking my spot.

-.- Ignore my previous post. I lied. I was third. Bronze is still good, right? :D

@3: You are a pathetic loser, in more ways than one.

LIKEY

It's cool and all, but I'm pretty sure this has been done before. Or maybe every year...as animation. But hey, good jorb guy with vowel abundant name, I salute you. Now paint 6000 paintings on various sized canvases with real paints and no onion skins and you may be on to something.

I wanna see a video of a dog riding a skateboard, while getting older over 15 years in high-speed, set to the tune of "Never Gonna Give You Up".

Yeah, I've got this plan to write a million words on paper one after the other and make 'em tell a story. I'm pretty sure that's never been done before either.

Just a heads-up, sir: the word "comprised" is the opposite of "composed", and should never be followed by the word "of." That sentence would have been correct if you had said "the video comprises 6000 individual paintings."

Thank you and good night.

: )

Sorry, as talented as this person is; I can't believe what a waste of time. He could get the same effect by using graphic tools and made 10 of these animations.

Is the music comprised of 6000 individual farts?

HACK!

Try 29,000+ paintings, 20 min in length, and it won an OSCAR!

http://www.awn.com/oscars00/oldman.php3

Reza is clearly no match for THE PETROV!

WOW!! @3 and 7,
Epic FAIL!!! Go hide deeeeeeeeeeeep in a hole some where. Preferably a bung hole of some sort, because that's where you belong!
Back to the topic,
Cool? Yes. Animation? Yes. Therefore; Original? No.

When I see accomplishments like this, where someone takes a few years and makes 6,000 paintings all for one 5 minute video, I rank him up there with the guy that took twenty six years to solve a rubix cube.

Too much effort, not enough pay-off.

i don't really get why everyone needs to attack the lack of originality of the piece. No where did it claim to be original or new. And no one needs to point out that it isn't. The music is really bad though.

FAIL.

that is the grade I'd give him. If it takes you 2 years to produce a film that can best be summarized as "4 minutes of stuff happening and 1 minute of credits set to monotonous music" then you are a failure as a film maker.

Sorry, but it's just true no matter how "cool" you think it is.

...and just for the record, isn't "painting thousands of pictures" the way animation has been done since the dawn of the medium?

what has this guy done that hasn't been done a few hundred thousand times before...but in 90 minute lengths?

Wait, really?

That was it?

I mean the effort is immpressive, but...

I don't know.. maybe could use some boobies, or a ninja or two.

if this was done digitally.. then i don't think it counts as painting.

@12, You sir, fail at the English language.
Google the definition of "comprise."
Go on. I'll wait.
Now, see?
It means to "include, consist of, or contain."

Don't correct people when you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Comprise and compromise are two different words indeed.

No daisy yet?
i was actually expecting a photoshop remark.

Am I the only one who wasn't impressed with that? It seemed like a huge waste of time. I didn't even get through 5 minutes, yet the creator spent 2 years on it. I'm not sure who wasted more time, him or me.

Not bad. Like some people said above, it looks like the guy painted over a 3d animation. Way too many effects going on... and an average looking 3d rendering half-painted over with muddy browns in photoshop looks pretty bad. He should have just painted over everything instead of just leaving things as a 3d render. This would have tied things together a lot more visually.

There were some good moments like when the guy crouched down on the floor to dig at the tile, but I found the credits the be the most enjoyable part.

To people who said this has been done before a trillion times... Painting frames with actual form and volume as opposed to the more flat cel animation style is a billion times more time consuming. It's really difficult to animate when realistic shading is introduced... That's why it's not done often. But this guy made things easier by going over a 3d rendering so in this case it's different.

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As soon as the guy's face turned int, well, that, the first thing I thought of was The Court of the Crimson King.

So, I was pleased to see that I did not hallucinate it.

Sort of cool animation, some parts better than others. The music is bad, as has been said already. Whatever.

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But what does it all mean?????

wtf is this? i got to the part where the man is in a cell and stabbing the floor? can someone explain this to me where are the 6000 paintings?

seems to me like something out of a pink floyd movie personnally. However, I agree with most, it seems like a great waste of time. Think if he used all this time to invent the next great 'Sham Wow".

pssh, i could do better with a scroll bar and a series of periods and underscores

@33 - completely agree, pink floyd's the wall all the way.
it's impressive... but... get a hobby. or a girlfriend.
that is all.
xx
syd

@24
Nigel, it's the different between an active and passive use of a word. Do you know what the difference is between punching someone and being punched by someone? Go ahead and think about. I'll wait.

"Comprise" means "include", "consist of", "contain", just like Google told you. But, like Leonidas said, "comprise" doesn't mean "is comprised of".
Think of the difference "makes" and "is made of".
Water makes up the Earth's oceans.
The oceans are made of water.
The oceans include water.
The oceans consist of water.
The oceans contain water.
The oceans comprise water.

But the oceans don't make up water
And the oceans aren't comprised of water.

Why is it not working?

Which second do I pause to view the Mona Lisa?

You know, I got great enjoyment out of that. I'd love if someone submitted something that beautiful to my animation class.

Impressive technique, too bad he spend so much work on a boring movie. i lost interest halfway and i love animation... Also the music is just getting on my nerves, and not in an exciting way.

@36 You're totally right there, gah I hate idiots.

And the sad thing about this animation is in any UK college class it would only get a B.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete phosphorus job. You can tell its a take because the shadow's are all gong.

This is a 30 mile long mural of a scene from the movie Tender Dracula where one of the drunken overdubbed make up artists paints X on the door of houses in seventeenth century london.

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max managd a baseball team comprised of women because there was a war going on and most of the men were fighting. He put up with their whining and moodiness, by drinking a lot and ignoring them. Kind of like having 25 wives.

I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
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Are you guys seriously arguing about the grammatical accuracy of "comprise" vs. "comprised of"?? SRSLY?

...speaking of useless debates or arguments, I should not call the kettle black... oops... oh well, I'm posting it anyway.

Hmmm. I prefer the BENNY HILLified version: http://www.james.nerdiphythesoul.com/bennyhillifier/speedup.php?id=3GcTphRvKuk

Some of you guys are being cynical. Of course its animation, but the hard part is that they're paintings. It took the guy two years.

Anyway, its pretty cool. Reminds me of the stop motion animation in the Tool videos.

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he should auction off each of those paintings

the video uses a cool technique but 2 years is too much.
btw i love all the comments lmfao and arguments that are going on

It's just like SpongeBob

@43 STFU!!! it is not fake! it is not photoshopped because it is a fcuking video. someone should hack into this website and erase your comments, set up a word filter, then ban your IP for these stupid spammed Never Back Down FAKE! jokes you keep making. its fcuking old, seriously. GW messed up by accident and thought that capoiera fight was from an actual movie. He didnt know of the NBD movie. NOW FCUKING LET IT GO AND STOP THE NEVER BACK DOWN JOKES YOU STUPID FCUKTARD!!!!

@51- you are clearly new, daisy comments the same thing with slight changes on every post, check

and have you thought that this isnt a place for serious comments, seriously, just read them. Half say fake, some say it sucked but clearly havent seen it, and some are just completely off topic. Thne there are the few like you who decide to get pissed at people for amusing themselves

Okay, so it was pretty cool, but I'm not sure I understand the achievement. 6,000 different paintings? You could pause at any frame and have it look like a painting? Well, then I think he failed.

During the running part, there are at least 6 pure black frames. Am I missing something?

"What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards." - Reza

Uh huh. I'm not claiming I could ever do anything like what he did, I'm not artist. It was fluid, and some parts were beautiful, and it was captivating, but I'd say he failed to accomplish his main purpose. He painted 6,000 paintings (many of similar themes, which impress me quite a bit less), and not every frame looks like a painting - many of the paintings just aren't that good, either.

I can sum it all up in one word..................meh....

Can anybody of you do this? No?!? So way you give bullshits? First do or even try and after get naked :D

I dont do it for amusemnt, I do it because im fckuing fed up with Daisys bullshit in every comment section after GW made a simple mistake and got an article mixed up.

Nothing original here, I'd give him a D+. Just because of all the time he took on it.

Seriously. Boring. It was like a Tool video. And I honestly didn't see anything in there that was any different from any other animation technique. If the technique was, in fact, unique, then there was no evidence of that difference in the finished product. I agree with those who pronounced it an utter FAIL.

It reminds me of The Wall by Pink Floyd....... and that was made 27 years ago!!!

This was the guy's graduate film. "2 years" is probably the time it took for his schooling. I'm sure he only worked on it a little at a time, and probably sat on the idea for the first year and a half...I know I woulda...I can't even bear to do my Stats homework till the day it's due :p

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Hello!

I think this needs a little explaining. I go to the university where this film was made, and I'm two years below Reza's level, so I know what I'm talking about.

The film was blocked out, roughly, in Maya (3d animation software) and then every single frame (that's 25 a second, so 7300 in total) was exported into Photoshop, painted over digitally and increased in detail. Sure, things could have been done better, but in a year's allotted time to make this film, where ONE person did all of the paintings, where usually there's a team of 3 or 4 animators on each project, it's a damn good job.

I think the reason some people are slating this so much, is that they have no concept of how damn hard it is to create something that is as effective as this. 6000 paintings over 2 years (not counting the time for concept, planning, doping, animatics etc.) that's 3000 a year, roughly 10 a day. For me, a ten second animation involving a flour-sack and a nail takes a month. And as for seeing this kind of thing as unoriginal? Well, animation isn't anything new, it's been around since before the Greeks, but this style, created in this way, really is. Especially as it was a student, not a paid professional, who made it.

Also, people don't seem to get that animation doesn't have to be a narrative piece, or continually visually explosive to be good. Think of KillBill (1 or 2, I can't remember) where Uma Thurman is buried alive. It's entirely black, and all you get is the sound, which only serves to make the moment more intense.

**To whoever thought that this could have been done with filters and effects - sometimes, it's just cheating. Or that you produce the work, and everyone tells you it's worth nothing because all it is is preset filters, made by somebody else and you've put them together.

By the way, this piece got an A, and has won awards. It's good, you just don't have the standards by which it should be judged.

There we are. Someone defending it. Thank you, and good night.

Thank u psyx! someone shoulda done that much earlier... Atleast this guy is getting renown unlike most of the commentors

Very Tool-esque. I dig it.

@64: to quote (almost) a famous movie line: 'you lost me at Hello". I think one thing some of you long winded people forget. This site is for quick quips, mostly funny and sometimes insightful. Those who go on for paragraph after paragraph do not get read.

so, once again..............meh

67. Kup - February 22, 2009 12:26 PM

@64: to quote (almost) a famous movie line: 'you lost me at Hello". I think one thing some of you long winded people forget. This site is for quick quips, mostly funny and sometimes insightful. Those who go on for paragraph after paragraph do not get read.

so, once again..............meh

that shows how lazy people are then.

Can anybody of you do this?

Heh. Actually, I think that any of us could do this, yes.

Aw, poor guy. It sure would suck to spend so much time on a project only to have it ending up as a vapid piece piece of mostly teenaged angsty hooplah.

I also totally saw "the court of the crimson king" face too.

Let down. I'm pretty much the target audience for this and can only say this guy was big on stick-to-itiveness and low on innovation.

There is nothing new here. It seems like he didn't exploit the medium. Also, he should've avoided figure painting. It's all fun and games until some art student tries to paint a human.

It's basically rotoscoped so I'm not impressed.

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Those who slam this really know nothing of art. I think this work is beyond words. I think it will go down as one of the most impressive works of this time and of the style. Like any good work it will become immortal. Those who slam it just show how down-right ignorant society is. Also, they will just bring more attention to this work. The last time a piece of art was implanted in my mind was some work by Matthew Barney. This is really inspiring.

For those of you out there who have something to say about this in a negative manner just remember that art is subjective. If you don't like it and have to go to the trouble of letting everyone know what you don't like or what you were not impressed by, then the work is doing it's job. If it plants something in your mind either good or negative then the work is (for lack of a better word) art.

dude..... i must say this has been one of the most amazing things i have ever seen... to put this much time and devotion into a project like this.... wow. *bows to the creator* simply amazing

Jesus, no one gets painting at all? Are you the same kind of asshole that thinks guitars are stupid, I mean they are pretty unoriginal...Let's just remove all of visual art from existence. Yeah, maybe this was just rendered 3D junk, but everyone who's saying it's a waste of time, get a life, what is your life like? Wishing you had a girlfriend and having no usefull skills while working at your crap desk job? At least there will be physical epitaph's of painters, not you.
I bet no one who made a comment like that could draw a stick figure if they were given 1 year in a room full of paper and pencils. (You'd probably make paper airplanes and little paper claws for amusement)

But, given this is Geekologie, known for funny videos, not known for any intelligence.

i like how that guy at the top missed getting first post by gloating... you penis

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