A Japanese group created an interesting music video using 250 Canon 60D cameras and hot-shoe mounted flash units as their animation engine. Each unit acted as a “pixel” so to speak, and using a computer program the group created innovative light show with no computer animation. They explain the concept on their site as follows:
When we listened to the “Bright Siren”,
we envisioned bright lights flickering in the darkness,
and the lyrics ‘not to make it a memory’ has struck in our minds.
From these inspirations, we came up with the idea of using camera strobes
as pixels to create an animation out of light.
We actually lined up 250 cameras
and controlled each strobes [sic] through a computer program.
All the lights in the film are real, and no CG were used.
Enjoy their music video, then watch the behind the scenes video below showing the prep that went into this creation.
Making of the above video
Wow that was excellent lightshow and then to see the setup OMG!
I find that Asian Artist always seem to push the envelope doing something so out of the box to capture attention.
That said I really like Asian music and their theme song “ Not to Make it a Memory” is a classic example of Asian music now! With its driving rhythms with a Dash of Class to always pull you back into piece and keep you wanting more.
I watched this 16 year old Japanese girl on Youtube play a Gibson SG guitar an mimic to a TEE: Van Halen and Randy Rhodes. Her hands were lightening fast ripping out riffs of that hard driving sound that many including myself remember when these Rock Icons Ruled the Waves. She was Freaken Great!
Asian Artist Rock.
Great Blog Cemal
Is this a StudiioPress Theme?
I have a few Irons in the Fire soon to be released.
Thanks Steve. It is a StudioPress theme that I modified for PSRI and added the necessary functionality with various plugins.
Seems like they could get the same result just using flashlights. Or strobes without the cameras. I don’t see the point of having 250 Canon 60D’s at all. Or am I missing something?
It may have to do with the programming of the sequence.and the duration of the flashes. If you press the Preview button when the flash is on, it lights more or less continuously. I am not sure if you can do that kind of detail. Maybe a note to the band via their site will help shed more light (pun intended)
Only some of them are Canon 60D, in the bts video I can see some very small cam with old manual nikon lenses.
I wonder how they got Canon Japan sponsor them with Nikon cameras there? I did not look that closely to identify the cameras, and the brand is not particularly significant. The thought, the execution, and the presentation are very nice and strong.