frankbeltran

Just to show the work beneath the Michelin Project. Music by Weezer

You really need to see "Making Michelin" (the behind the scenes video) in order to get it right.This project was the first prize for the "Movimiento Creativo Michelin" contest. This is a light sculpture, made out of a lot of pictures. The brief was to make a piece that involved Bibendum (The Michelin Man) under the concept of movment. There were 3 categories, photography/graphic design, video and artpiece. I entered them all with this project. The music that I used is from Café Tacvba, the best mexican band ever.

This video uses a mathematical formula based upon an image Escher did (The Print Gallery), known in these days as the "Droste Effect". This is my first videoclip as a Director, and it was made entirely using a Digital Reflex Camera, Canon's Mark III which captures up to 115 continuous pictures, at 10 fps. As this was really low budget video, it was made possible thanks to the help of lots and lots of friends. This video was "inspired" by the amazing pictures of Sebastian Perez Duarte (I mean that as an euphemism). I just wanted to add movement to those kind of images. All of the image process was made in my home computer, thank's to Pisco Bandito/Josh Sommers' tutorials, and Bill Hornes code. A friend of mine, Chema "The Mecatronic", helped me automate all of the process. This is the result of almost 6 months of work. This is the video of a band called "No Somos Machos Pero Somos Muchos" (NSM PSM) and they're about to release their first album. This is their first single "Clap your brains off" Check out the making of...