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Tangent 61 behind the scenes

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Composer

Christof Vonderau

Christof brought an ambitious structure, variety, and layers to the soundtrack. And he used instruments from all over the world. 

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Animator, Director

Dan McHale

I was inspired by the Punto Y Raya festival in Spain. And by Wilma Af Klint, and Oscar Fischinger.

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Tech

The Machines

Animated on an iMac, and Cintiq.

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Software

Animate, After Effects, Final Cut Pro

And Photoshop too. Lots of screen time!

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Development

intial drawings...

 Rule number 1: No representation!

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gettting from a to b.

Pan

This is a composite image of a long camera movement.

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Background art

From squares to circles...

I used long takes. Those are... tricky. That involved some big backgrounds.

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The finale

Big Circle

When in doubt, recap! The big circle contains previous shots doing their thing.

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sound

Dela in Berlin

Christoph de la Chevallerie "Dela" in Berlin created a beautiful 5.1 surround mix. Also known as a re-recording mix. This image is from the also wonderful stereo mix down.

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