Comments on: iPads, Light Painting, And A Lot Of Calculations

By: Matthew Shard

Matthew Shard — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 07:54:17 +0000

Hi Timo and Marjut!
Love it!
All the best Matthew from ATV!

By: Andres castro

Andres castro — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:46:21 +0000

I agree with Thomas Woodson; It is not that something similar can be done by other methods, it is the craft of figuring out something really cool. I bet that this will inspire a ton of creative uses with this or a derivative technique. Great to see people with this much imagination.

By: David Keller

David Keller — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:08:53 +0000

Awesome video, and insanely creative, but I do think Andy has a good point. All this can be done with a lot less effort and more effectively in After Effects, so I don’t see this technique catching on many places. I also agree with Thomas when he says that hand crafted things in motion pictures can change the quality, but I don’t think that’s a good analogy in this case. Hand crafted elements are great, but what they are doing here is still 3d digital composing, so it still has that CG look to it. So if its going to have that CG look to it, you might as well save some effort and do it in After Effects, and have more control.
Amazing concept, and I enjoyed the video. Awesome demonstration of technology and creativity.

By: Nathan O'Kane

Nathan O'Kane — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:36:03 +0000

That was so great. Thank you so much!

By: Thomas Woodson

Thomas Woodson — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:49:34 +0000

@andy: sometimes its the process that makes it great. You can do anything with CGI and Photoshop these days, but to bring in hand created elements into a design or a film take it to a whole new level. Try to notice how many advertisements out there contain photographs of hand crafted things and see how much that changes the quality of the creation.

Would anybody even care about this if it was all CG? Hell no they wouldn’t. Everybody sure is freaking out about it though because someone spent a lot of time making something insanely creative in a way it hasn’t been done before. This video rocks.

By: Jorge Queiroz

Jorge Queiroz — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:08:53 +0000

Awesome!
I made some tests like this with my iPhone after the first time I saw it. The result is great, but the iPhone screen is smaller and in some angles it ‘shines’ too much, even when the video is black. I need to try harder.

By: Donnie Bell Design

Donnie Bell Design — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:35:20 +0000

This is such a unique idea. I don’t know if you would see this in commercial photography, due to all the software, but I can see it becoming huge in music videos and personal photography.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:08:54 +0000

I don’t really see the point in this all that trouble why not just composite the CGI elements into the video?………..Talk about making life hard for yourself!

As a piece of art it’s a nice concept but…………..

By: Si

Si — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:52:26 +0000

I don’t know why but when i try to view Vimeo on fstoppers front page it never plays, if i go to the same video on the Vimeo page it works just fine. Mac 10.6.4 with Safari. I don’t have any problems with fstoppers youtube vids.

By: Mark Fore

Mark Fore — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:52:25 +0000

This is insane! Who said the iPad was useless???!