#Gif brewery slow down gif series#

I was hoping to create the feeling of being far from home, surrounded by giant alien structures which are completely impassive to you. At times it throws up some nice combinations and I feel like the slightly abrasive, unsettling textures and tonality of the audio matches the alien mood I wanted for the piece. I selected about 12 takes from these and wrote a script in Unity to mix slowly between them at random, selecting and playing two at any given time.

#Gif brewery slow down gif series#

I recorded a series of very rough, loosely tonal improvisations using a physical modeling synthesizer. IвЂ™ve done several works in the past which attempted to explore this concept further, cutting and shuffling between audio files, and thought this would be a cool chance to pursue it. As scratch audio however I had used an album created by Autechre side project Gescom titled вЂMDвЂ™ which is a collection of ambient and noise works released on minidisc and designed to be played on shuffle, creating an aleatoric, randomly generated sequence. I scrapped the idea for this version as it didnвЂ™t end up being very interesting. In the original prototype I had experimented with having the ship geometry being animated in response to playing audio in the scene. I actually prefer this approach as it gives the piece a more sweeping, cinematic feel. I removed this for the #screensaverjam version and replaced it with a simple, slow rotation for the camera. I originally had a first person style controller in there so that the player could turn and look around. IвЂ™d like to explore this technique further in the future, a combination of procedural generation and human selection and editing. This combination of using procedural tools as a kind of вЂcollaboratorвЂ™ which throws up ideas which you as the creator then edit is pretty interesting. At some point the tool flung up the predominantly blue palette that is in the current version of the piece and I turned off the color switching and decided to stick with that pallette. I initially attempted to use some procedural color palette tools IвЂ™d created but wasnвЂ™t too happy with the results.

I like the feeling of abstraction that this affords and it also makes it fairly easy for me to create evocative visuals relatively quickly using simple colors and shapes. I built the project in Unity, and used some simple primitive based geometry and textureless materials. In the process I realized that having some framing geometry, buildings between the player and the ships would make things much more visually interesting and so began to add some very random вЂbuildingвЂ™ like alien megastructure things to act as frame and foreground for the floating ships.

The original idea was to have a simple beach that the player was positioned on and then watching as procedurally generated spaceships arrive and depart.

I wanted to make something which would capture some of that awe inspiring feeling, of space, distance and smallness. I love the broad, expansive feeling of intelligent space ships travelling through vast spaces and all the strangeness that may arise.

I love to read science fiction, especially some of the more recent generation of space opera, people like Iain M. I thought about a few ideas I might like to do and then remembered a raw prototype IвЂ™d made from the summer, Beach. The idea of making something using game tools that was non-interactive and just about creating nice visuals felt really liberating. IвЂ™d noticed a few weeks ago that #screensaverjam was happening and loved the idea but figured I wouldnвЂ™t be able to participate due to scheduling. My flight was cancelled and so I found myself with a quiet weekend on my hands. The #snowpocalypse hit the east coast and New York City was snowed in. This past week I went to Brighton, England to visit work colleagues at the Unity office there and got stuck.