Update to HD for three clips on Youtube

I rendered again Belief: Wrath, Belief: Greed and Thar Desert in HD 720p and uploaded on Hox Vox Box channel. I also added some variations.


Belief: Greed got no blue tint now, and it's tighter to original "Peyote" animation.



In Belief: Wrath I added sparkles when hammers land on the anvil and a couple of motion blur fx. Few and small retouches.



Last was retitled Thar Desert 2.0 because I added circa 150 new animations. Essentially is the old Thar Desert populated by many other moving elements.

Jeanne d'Arc clip is online now

Just uploaded last videoclip from Étoile, Jeanne d'Arc. This time I worked with paint effects on some footages about Crusades, Jeanne d'Arc and east europe (looking like a little middle east) singers. Track is, briefly, about the juxtaposition of western guitar arpeggios and middle east vocals.

My intention was putting together women from both sides in Cusades: a western woman, the "étoile" in this case, which dared to act like a male soldier in a demented inquisition environment; and docile eastern singers. They got no moments of glory followed by dying on a pyre, but a continuous subordination, so actually it's a pondering about women's troubles in western or eastern world. Different ways and degrees of cruelty, same patriarchism.

Clip simply follow this scheme and adds a movie picture support. I needed just a couple of days to finish it as it's a "punk" expression in videomaking. This time I tried to catch the result on the fly, without exceeding in refurbishing every single frame. Not a draft, but a quicker language. And a different subject, it wasn't the right place to unleash some After Effects frenzy quirknesses. At the opposite, I worked on slow motion footages, to achieve a relaxed but a little gloomy mood.

I found quite cruel in the last sequence to put side by side Jeanne d'Arc in flames and a smiling singer. It was not intended as a revenge of muslim on a christian, but the cruelty in life itself. While one is dying, the other is enjoying his art.