Believer by Jim Ellis
This is a video I made for the band Mimi. The song “Believer” is from the Luaka-Bop/Warner-Brothers album “Soak”. The band was headed by Mimi Goese, who is also well known for her performance art, and her past involvement in the band “Hugo Largo”. Go purchase these works that she was involved in, they are truly extraordinary.
This piece has screened at Siggraph, ACM1, as well as many museums and galleries around the world. It was created when I was a student at CalArts back in 1999. It was one of my first experiments in creating real-time animation. The animation was done by capturing live performance/animation data in the 3D software program “Softimage”. Basically I danced around with the “mouse” to the song, and then cleaned things up for a higher production quality.
This YouTube video is a bit of pale reflection of what it REALLY looks like in the theater or on your TV. This is due to YouTube only allowing a very small file size for download. Still, I hope there is enough of “the juice” that comes through for you to enjoy this. I may try to recompress this video, with the hope that the quality will improve.
all my best
Jim Ellis
http://www.myspace.com/jimellisvisual…
