Piano

Roles: Art / Animation Direction, Design and Animation.

A cinematic and creative journey with a small team, and yes, cinematic lights. The RD started by following Clarisa’s lead and researching a visual approach that fit her vision.

After a few explorations, I kept it simple and achieved something that clicked just right with the direction: lights.

The entire animation was created using just 3-4 lights and a single plane in C4D. Then made small worlds with small variations but keeping a concise and simple construct: One object and 4 lights.

The result demonstrates how limiting the tools can expand what we can achieve.

Creative Direction by Clarisa Valdez
Soundtrack by Alejandro Merodio

Creating the PIANO world with just 3 lights and 1 plane.
One of the routes considered was to make everything B/W and playing with patterns + noises to represent what would be the RGB offset if you could perceive the frame in color.
We tried adding a Piano within this approach, eventho it looked interesting, it didn’t make the cut and we shortly move into working further with colors.
After developing this frame, it gave me the idea of just using lights in with the shape of each letter.

PIANO

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