Background generation with microscopes
A couple of days ago I picked up a $40 children’s microscope from an electronics store. The goal was to try to hook it up to my HD video camera to generate some cool abstract backgrounds. I’m still very early in the experimentation phase with this but I made a mock opening credits sequence using some of the shots. You can take a look at my ghetto setup by clicking here. Click below to see the video.
If you’re wondering, Morgan Freeman’s credit is over velcro, Brad Pitt’s is over a raisin, the title is over a termite, and mine is over a paper towel.
Lee
I was wondering where all the dirty fingernail tweets were headed. I’m guessing you’ll put one of us MS fanboys on the dirty fingernail
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Kurt
And the briliant score is by?
@German It is from the soundtrack to Along Came a Spider.
Did the cat get pissed?
just looks ruff
mate your a genius dont bother with oldstyles keep it clean and future
Hi Lee,
sad to see you leave for Hollywood someday soon, but it really looks great. Except for the dirty fingernail, that’s just gross. Didn’t expect that from a guy who said that watching porn on the internet is disgusting
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Great stuff !
Hey Lee…
You picked up some nice effects there
That kinda look can be hard to achive by hand, so to speak…
Feels like you´re getting more and more into video/animation- experiments. I don´t know how you find the time for all this, but keep it coming
Ahh that’s cool, my girlfriend has a small microscope and I have an iSight…maybe I should try!
Lee, don’t You mean “8ight”
The score is also used on the opening tiles sequence of “The Usual Suspects”.
There a lot of rare microbes in world, Maybe to film those?
Cool vid btw!
wow, this really re-creates the vintage analogue feel. Which I love
Colors are especially strong. Did you change anything in post or is this the way it came out of the microscope?
i’d love to see you code mandelbrots in flash. just keep on zooming till the end of the universe. none of the patterns ever repeat.
Lee, you’re a director as well!? Amazing, how do you find the time to work on all these flash demos, answer all our silly questions and work on film’s as well?
Many thanks for your tutorials, they’ve really helped me a lot.
All the best
Sci-Fi Si
Very cool!!
Pure poetry. Very inspirational. Thanks.
I love it! I would just love even more if the title of the movie was bigger and had a different effect!
Thanx for saying what the score was, because it is very well chosen for this type of thing!
Congrats!
Love the idea and result!! So….do ya know if the trial downloads are on schedule for mid-Nov?
can’t watch on iPhone
What a great idea and great results!
I like the cuts from opening of Dead Prez – Hip Hop
Wow, very creative! Experimenting like this always seems to generate some cool results.
Awesome look lee. What do you use for a cam, I have been curious for quite some time.
Very cool experiment! I may have to try some of this myself.
Lee, what HD cameras do you use/own?
Haha, very CSI. Cool!
HAHA! this is great stuff!
And your setup is just as cool as your recordings are!
good job, and keep playing with this!
greetings.
R.
Amazing. You’re Kyle Cooper in flash world.
Trajan…didn’t you see the hell arious YouTube rant on Trajan Pro…
That is some creative stuff…after a whiskey sour though it is sort of making me…sour.