“Beat Dedication” by Sabiston
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 1988 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 1988:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 07
Title:
- Beat Dedication
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- MIT Media Lab
Description:
Beat Dedication began as a Christmas present, a personalized rock video for my 10-year-old brother with a new drum set. It’s the story of a stainless steel punk drummer and his arch-enemy, the Killer Volkswagen Fly. The animation can be computed to accompany any song. My soundtrack interpreter reads MIDI information from a synthesizer and uses it to generate animation keyframes; hence, the drummer’s movements are automatically synchronized to the music.
Additional Contributors:
Music and video editing: David Atherton
Project Support by: Hewlett-Packard(hardware), Bitstream(digitalfonts), IBM, MITUROP, and the MediaLab’s Visible Language Workshop, Film/ Video and Computer Graphics and Animation groups.
