“Dice” by Akayama
Conference:
- SIGGRAPH 2005 More animation videos from SIGGRAPH 2005:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 06
Title:
- Dice
Length:
- 1:57
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Kyoto Seika University
Description:
This CG animation presents the enjoyable rhythms of rolling dice. Many movement patterns of rolling dice were captured, and then surprising movements were selected. The work consists of a single, continuous take of movements in the chain reaction of rolling dice, one scene rolling into the next.
The production was created with Maya and a software tool written with Mel, a script language that can control dice moving in arbitrary directions at various speeds. As the dice landed and collided with each other, localization and time data were collected by Maya and exported to MAX/MSP sound software to generate the audio track and synchronize it with the movement of the dice. These data were also used to create melody.
Hardware:
Windows PC 2.8 GHz, Apple PowerBook G4
Software:
Alias Maya 4.5, Adobe Photoshop 6.0, Adobe Premiere 5.1, MAX/MSP 4.5, Cubase SX3
Additional Contributors:
Director and Producer: Hitoshi Akayama
CONTRIBUTOR
Saburo Hirano, Kyoto Seika University
