psychedelic trip in 3D.

its called "split point" its about 6 mins long

http://vimeo.com/12438568

Split point was an experiment.

After rendering my first few animations of the mandelbox - I found my camera skills leaving a lot to be desired, when it came to moving around and into the mandelbox! Some movements were too quick and jerky - whilst others took too long to play out. So I have been trying my video editing skills to resolve the problem.
To smooth the camera's pitch and roll, I remapped the time of the fast areas to slow them down, that worked, but although the camera had smoothed out, the animation was very jerky as it was only 4-5frames per seconds at some points. Now you can just blend original frames together to create new ones and put them in between the originals - fine if you have at least 15-20fps to play with but when the frame rate is as low as 4-5fps (normally i render at 30fps) it gives bad results. so instead I used a pixel blending technique to create the brand new frames - so that the video could slow down without the animation losing details.

I have decided they were good results - although it led to a longer post production time.
The final 1.3GB h264encoded mp4 can be downloaded from my blog
http://www.hd-fractals.com/split-point/

The audio we used is from 90watts.com and it is a deep tech house track called

"head of beans" by martin fisher
http://www.90watts.com/releases/9041

Inspired by the house tapes his older sister gave him in the early 90's, Marten Fisher turned his commodore 64 into a studio tool and started producing his first beats.

In 2003 he released his first release and nowadays he has build up quite a nice catalog with releases and remixes on labels like 90watts Records, Bad Girls, Strom Recordings, Travels, XXXflicks and of course his own successfull proghouse label Dub=records.

So all in all I feel honored to be using his sound!