Hello readers, here are a couple of news we´ve found today:
1. Keane has been recording with K´Naan.
2. Making Of the Spiralling video.
Enjoy!
K’Naan Recording With Keane
Somali-Canadian poet, rapper and musician K'Naan is recording with U.K. rock band Keane.
"I am in the London today, been here for a few days recording some new music with the band Keane," K’Naan wrote in an email sent to fans on Friday regarding his work with the 3D online performance pioneers.
"They are amazing guys and great musicians. Look forward to sharing it with ya'll soon."
Link: http://www.chartattack.com/news/68446/k%E2%80%99naan-recording-with-keane
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Inition add another dimension to Keane's new music video 'Spiralling'
Inition provided rock band Keane with depth information of front man Tom Chaplin singing to add a new dimension to their new music video, Spiralling.
We were approached by Andras Ketzer, the video's director, with a request to record a singing head, and to provide 3D data giving him the ability to manipulate the head in a 3D modelling program.
Client: Joyrider Films / Keane 'Spiralling' Promo
Director: Andras Ketzer
Brief: To record a the lead singer Tom Chaplin's head, and extract Z-depth and colour information for use in their new music video, Spiralling.
Background: We were approached by Andras Ketzer, the video's director, to record the singing head of front man Tom Chaplin. We provided 3D data as a sequence of greyscale heightmap images (z-depth). This gave the director the ability to render his animated head from any angle at any point in time.
Keane's lead singer Tom Chaplin was filmed using our 2K stereoscopic filming system, based on Silicon Imaging cameras (3DVidRig-SI), with a pattern projected on the singer to help with the depth-extraction algorithms. We then used Inition's 3D conversion facility, to generate a Z-depth image at 25 frames per second.
Tom Chaplin (Lead-singer, Keane), Andras Ketzer (director) and Andy Millns (Inition stereographer)
Tom Chaplin goes for it in front of our pair of 2K Silicon Imaging cameras
One of the captured images (left) and the extracted depth map (right)
After smoothing, the z-depth images were used as a displacement map to create 3D geometry.
With the colour data mapped onto the 3D geometry, and a number of lighting effects added, the final shot was created.
Some stills from the video.
Link: http://www.inition.co.uk/inition/newspage.php?NewsID=NEWS-KEANE
