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60s Swarm

This shot illustrates the part of the film that talks about how the counter culture movement of the late 1960s was the result of a swarm of people with aligned goals acting together. I immediately had the idea of taking various footage clips from the counter culture and showing these being assembled out of many small constituent parts.

I knew this would be a 3D particles job, but I really didnt have the expertise to tackle it. In my Maya days I started getting into particles but fell over when it came to ‘mel’ scripting. So, i was put in touch with one Andreas Gebhardt by a friend of mine, Jon Saunders form Psyop. At the time Andreas was working at Psyop in R&D. I dont want to try and describe exactly what Andreas does, I’d fail miserably. Suffice it to say that as far as I understand it he’s pushing the limits of 3D R&D in Xsi. Andreas took my rather shonky concept visual for the shot (See below) and turned it into something wonderful. And i never got chance to even buy him a beer when i was in NYC. But one day I will, oh yes…