pj_antithesis | kachi-chan

ANTITHESIS

experimental short film

Antithesis is an animation/custom software aimed at creating a new visual form to translate music into visuals. The term "Antithesis" implies two opposing materials, metal and wood, the confrontation of which forms the main focus of the project.

Inspired by Todo Ramon's sculpture, the images visualized in Antithesis form a coherent relationship between organic and designed geometries. The main characteristic of Antithesis is its horizontal endless wood structure, and the ever-evolving abstract metal forms in response to the music along this endless landscape.

I am interested to see the chaos in an established, complete form.
Here are some inspiration from Todo Ramon, Richard Serra, and David Zwirn.

Various explorations on the form, which were discrete and loose in terms of structure. To create a continuity, an endless wood were used instead.
And backgrounds were removed in order not to distract the attention on the main object.

I Divided the music into different frequency components, each frequency component would procedurally drive a designed geometry transformation. Having fun in this visual programming playground!

Exploration on the visual elements, which were based on my own interpretation of the sounds. Lower frequency sounds tend to generate bulky, solid, larger-scale visual elements as shown on the left; while higher frequency sounds create light-weight, discrete, crisp and transparent ones on the right.

At early stages, a generic lighting were used but it was rather flat to bring out the visual elements and its details. A warm outdoor lighting to suit the wood log would be too cliche while a neon lighting would be cool and special but dilutes the focus on the materials.

Finally, a neon lighting was used as one of the sound-driven elements, a low key studio lighting throughout the video were implemented, it brings contrast to the details of each element as well as the textures in order to create a hypnotic visual atmosphere.

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