Aug 24 2009Eye Candy: Beautiful Dancing Smoke Video
This is a video created by Esteban Diácono to the music of Olafur Arnalds' Ljósið using "Adobe After Effects, particular v2, soundkeys and a little starglow". It's basically a bunch of smoke dancing around. But not like that shit in Lost!
i first imported the audio and set up 2 sounkeys layers, one for the piano and one for the strings. Then i worked the particles and the particle subsystem and linked things like the emission, the turbulence, the velocity, the spin amplitude and the strenght of the fields to the soundkeys outputs. Then i set up the colors with 2 different palettes, and well, after that there was a lot of trial and error in order to achieve what i was looking for. There's a lot of randomness involved in here, so there was also a lot of luck, of course.
I don't really understand any of that, but what's new? The important thing is that you just got paid for watching a three and a half minute video at work. High five!
The most amazing, beautiful and realistic piece of computer art I have ever seen [thenextweb]
Thanks to Andrew, who once inhaled some of that smoke and got all high as a kite and forgot to catch the bus.
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Reader Comments
1. brigs - August 24, 2009 5:22 PM
FIRST
2. David - August 24, 2009 5:22 PM
First!!
3. David - August 24, 2009 5:22 PM
Dammit!!!
4. brigs - August 24, 2009 5:23 PM
PWNED
5. pants - August 24, 2009 5:32 PM
@1-4
seriously?
6. George Washington - August 24, 2009 5:40 PM
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
7. cannibalshogun - August 24, 2009 5:50 PM
as someone who uses after effects and all those plug-ins I can say that was pretty impressive. I've never been able to create smoke that looks that good using particular.
8. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 5:52 PM
@6
LIAR!
9. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 5:54 PM
@GFS
What is sky chilli and how can it help me get laid?
10. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 5:54 PM
@GFS
What is sky chilli and how can it help me get laid?
11. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 5:57 PM
@STOMPY
@STOMPY
It's Cincinnati style chili. If you are out at the club or bar in Cincinnati it is highly recommended you go to Skyline, Camp Washington, or Pleasant Ridge Chili and get yourself a three way. That's right. You can order three ways in Cincy. They're so nice.
12. SiGee - August 24, 2009 5:59 PM
that was beautiful...
13. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:00 PM
WOW THAT SOUNDS GOOD
14. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:01 PM
MY GOD DID THAT SMELL GOOD
15. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:01 PM
MY GOD DID THAT SMELL GOOD
16. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:01 PM
MY GOD DID THAT SMELL GOOD
17. Alex - August 24, 2009 6:02 PM
"Eye Candy: Beatiful Dancing Smoke Video"
Anyone know what "Beatiful" means?
18. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:03 PM
GFS, that website is like gastronomic prwn...
19. Iris - August 24, 2009 6:08 PM
some of us aren't at work.
ugh first day of my last year in school today.
I was so happy when I found out geekologie wasn't blocked! :D
20. Lain - August 24, 2009 6:13 PM
it would be nice without those cheesy phrases
21. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 6:15 PM
@STOMPY
You have no idea how great a Skyline cheese coney is. I've been know to down 10 of those things on occasion.
22. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 6:16 PM
*known
stupid N key
23. Nicolás Nuñez - August 24, 2009 6:19 PM
Maybe, te video IS beautifull indeed but the words in it,
what a bunch of new age BS
you need chaos to bring a new life, what the f... is he talking about? a woman mother is chaos? an anarchy-flesh eating tumor has to be the mother of your child?
God, this people is the real cause of all troubles of mankind, not governments, but lazy st... mommys boys "artists" (because momy instead of yelling go to study says: you are beautifull, your genes are beautifull. god, it makes jesus and the devil cry.
The result of this lazyness is they don´t have a clue how to think in ideas / words. So, pretty images but you never make a succesfull movie, for that you have to know something about life, but living with momm....
About me, I´m just a lawnmover you can tell me but the way I .....
24. VC - August 24, 2009 6:20 PM
HIGH FIVE GW!
25. Daisy - August 24, 2009 6:21 PM
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 was smoking a cigar and getting chewed out by a night court lawyer for attacking a position without orders. As he was being yelled at the big commander drove up and congratulated Max and demoted the lawyer.
26. Zeo - August 24, 2009 6:25 PM
typ0.
27. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:28 PM
@23
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28. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 6:48 PM
EYE SEA, ALL YOUR LOSERS ARE GOING HOME CAUSE WORK IS OVER.... WELL MAYBE I WANT TO STAY AT WORK... EVER THINK ABOUT THAT?
29. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 6:52 PM
@28
No...I'm at home watching The Empire Strikes Back. Sucks to be you!
30. Don - August 24, 2009 7:00 PM
This is ... beautiful, wish I had a (HD) screensaver or soorta like that. or a visualization thingie from Windows Media Player
31. Don - August 24, 2009 7:02 PM
Oh and Daisy (#25) stfu =.=
32. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 7:06 PM
@GFS
Vadar is lukes father. There, I ruined it for you now back to the webs...
http://vaderremix.ytmnd.com/
33. GFS is to lazy to us his full name - August 24, 2009 7:10 PM
@STOMPY
http://www.watch-movies-links.net/movies/star_wars_episode_v_-_the_empire_strikes_back/
34. STOMPY - August 24, 2009 7:18 PM
@GFS
What did vadar wish for for X-Mas?
SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!!!!!!
http://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/
35. Heather - August 24, 2009 7:38 PM
Aw, spelling fail in the title, GW. But I forgive you, you stud you.
36. Johnny Blaze - August 24, 2009 7:56 PM
You don't need drugs to ENJOY this video........ just need them to ENHANCE it!!!
37. Hal - August 24, 2009 8:38 PM
Ah Starglow AE Plug-in - the cherry on top of the Particular Whipped cream atop chocolate sundae which is Adobe After Effects.
38. Andrew - August 24, 2009 8:53 PM
Oh man, where am I!?
Thanks GW
39. Checo - August 24, 2009 9:05 PM
Wow, I really like it, seriously, it was very good, congratulations!
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40. Fork-o-fork - August 24, 2009 10:09 PM
There's nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it going to be a butterfly
...EXCEPT IT'S DNA YOU FRUITCAKE!!!
41. OctenBockenBurn - August 25, 2009 12:07 AM
Anyone remember the episode of Lost where that dude was strapped in the chair watching all that crazy ass brainwashing shit? This seems like it would fit the part.
42. listdetroit - August 25, 2009 12:19 AM
I admire people like you who take the time to do all this research and then to share the results with others. Due to time constraints I will have to come back and read all the articles you have linked to.
Thanks for the share.
43. Esteban - August 25, 2009 12:29 AM
@23
Nicolas, why do you say things like that? i mean, i don't care if you didn't liked the video, but please don't talk about me or my life because you don't know shit about me.
I'm 34 years old, and it's been a long time since i was a "mommy's boy". This piece was made for a contest about creativity, that's why the "cheesy" phrases are there.The cheesy authors are people like Brian Eno, Nietzche and Stephan Sagmeister, not me as you appear to think.
and i'm not an artist and i never said i was. I'm just a graphics designer who has been working for over 12 years in the industry. If you had take the time to read some of the comments on the vimeo page, you should have know these facts.
excuse my english, i hope you'll get the point.
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47. Jaded Icon - August 25, 2009 7:37 AM
@ 43
Esteban, Esteban. Welcome to the interwebz. Feel free to post whatever you like, just don't feed the trolls and you would be wise not to fan the flamers either. I am disappointed that as a graphic designer you don't know these rules. There is no need to justify you work to anyone here. Keep the good and leave the bad.
BTW: "God is dead." - Nietzche
"Nietzche is dead" - God
48. Geekogee - August 25, 2009 7:43 AM
Must See!!!
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49. obz - August 25, 2009 8:37 AM
photoshopped guy.. where are you? this is your moment to shine.
50. The Baroness - August 25, 2009 4:30 PM
@ 43
Esteban,
I had a look at your your work on your website; it's great! I really like it. I work in PR and Advertising and you are the kind of guys i'd work with! Great job with the smoke :)
@47
I like your theory about the Trolls and the Flames..I "surrender unconditionally" ha!
The Baroness
51. Gueibor - September 1, 2009 7:40 AM
I'm torn between "Wow!" and "Meh, pretty good for a media player visualization".
Also, the New Age BS... deez no halp.
Dude should change those for smoke-related meme adaptations (All Your Smoke Are Belong To Us..., You've Been Smoke-Rolled, anyone?) and it would definitely improve its kickassness in a Cheech & Chong way.
52. fayezul - September 2, 2009 4:57 AM
Pheonix...
53. 880user088 - September 2, 2009 1:03 PM
Watching this on my PS3 woth HDTV = EPIC WIN !
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