Having a scanimate machine is no longer required for recreating the style! I have two particular friends who can easily replicate the style in near perfect detail all within blender 2.79.
@@fritz3802 flat oil pan reflecting the CRT image, and shooting with another camera at the opposite angle with as much geometric correction needed to keep the image ‘square’. Oil was better than water as it was ‘thicker, slower “, and didn’t tend to foam, or bubble. When it arrived, Digital image processing made it all simple!
One interesting thing is that now we can mix analog and digital. Making the basic movement/effect in after effect, put the result on a CRT screen, point a camera to it and let the magic flow. Or, we can transpose this complete machine in the digital domine as an After Effect plugin, literally!
I actually thought of something similar. To get a Scanimate look, I would film a CRT playing it. Only difference is I would speed up the footage to 120fps for displaying on the monitor so the trailing effects are more visible at normal speed. I would also play black and white on the CRT and Luma key it later, like what you see at 5:31 but digitally
For me as a young IT specialist, this is something absolutelly majestic. Now, there is nothing even remotely as magical as this. Everything is digital, perfect, precise, but it lacks the soul of these fascinating machines.
I'm obsessed with this era of motion graphics. When most people see this, they think it's dated and cheesy. I see it as warm and human, even though it's created by a machine. As a video editor, I get all my inspiration from the Image West demo reel, and the Cars music video. I'm trying to figure out how to master these type of effects with nu Skool editors. sometimes I create pics as frames, and ad a glow afterwards. since you love this as much as I do, what are some good plugins?
I've always been the same with the Cars song. I love the graphics, but the synthesizers were what drew me in more deeply. The combination of the two is unbeatable. I think there would be a real market for something like this coupled with today's trend of "vaporwave" music. A video made with a Scanimate is a perfect match.
I feel like this era contrasts with the later early CGI era of video effects. Early CGI seems robotic and unhuman which can be a plus or minus depending on how you look at it. I prefer Scanimate videos over videos of old CGI.
It's a minor detail but I love that they can effortlessly & precisely integrate the output of a 21st century computer into a Scanimate workflow through VGA
I tried to build something like this myself when I was a young adult, using an array of old retired video switchers and vision mixers I scrounged at TV studios. The big mistake I made was that I tried to record the distorted signal directly on tape. Of course my VCR did not accept a distorted video signal and so the recording frequently failed. So first I thought I needed a professional VCR and switched from VHS to 3/4 inch. However the problem persisted. So I assumed a TBC might be the solution, but the TBC just tried to compensate the deliberate distortion thereby "destroying" my video art. It never occurred to me that I just needed to record the distorted image with a video camera from a screen. Unfortunately I had to give up on this when I married. My wife had no appreciation for this strange hobby. So I had to dismantle my studio. The good equipment went onto eBay, the rest to the junkyard.
Dude, this story is tragic. Why would your wife not support your passions????? My options are either I'm supported in my endeavours or I'm single. (Evidently im single heh)
Well what you were doing sounds a bit different because it sounds like you are directly manipulating the video signal rather than plotting it in funny ways like the scanimate does. What you were doing is probably harder.
man, your wife is lame. i mean you dont need to be interested in your spouse's hobbies but just let them do it if it makes them happy. a happy spouse is a good spouse.
The video synthesizer I used was the Rutt-Etra. It was an infinitely simpler and primitive analog video synthesizer. During 1977-78, I used it at the Ontario College of Art to produce video art. I still have my own setup diagrams. I used it with audio oscillators, video cameras, VTRs, video and audio mixers, etc. I also used a fax machine to manipulate images.
I was one of two people who operated a Rutt-Etra Video Synthesizer at a production facility called AAV Australia, in Melbourne, Australia. I see all these clips about Scanimate and wonder where the Rutt-Etra fitted into the scheme of things. Did it pre-date Scanimate? I am fairly certain some of the Sesame Street animation sequences credited to Scanimate were actually produced on a Rutt-Etra.
As someone who is inspired by these retro designs and effects and hoping to one day apply it to future work, it brings me a great deal of joy to finally know the actual term for these types of effect that were so Synonymous with late 70s early 80s commercials and Television specials as well as to also know the people behind it who made it part of our culture. Thank you Roy and Dave for preserving this special piece of our history and Thank you LinkedIn for such an excellent video on the wonders of Scanimate!
I've always been an avid lover of that type of graphic motion. I grew up with it and have been trying to find the source of it for the longest time. I have found 5 things here in youtube that I have questioned from the longest time since I was a boy.
I had just been watching the Computer Image Corporation showreel from 1975 and then this showed up, imagine my surprise! Absolutely wonderful to watch and I'm in awe of this hardware and its beautiful image creating capabilities.
I've spent entire days trying to emulate that Scanimate or celluloid on film look. You'll get 99% there & scratch your head trying to figure out that last missing 1% of the equation. Well friends, it's film gate. That's what you're missing. Throw it all into a single comp & slap the tiniest of wiggle expressions on there with a random evolution.
There are some "Introduction to the Scanimate" videos on UA-cam where Dave Sieg explains Scanimate motions in a beginner-friendly way (since only 8 Scanimate were ever made, and few knew how to use them. They're like Theater Organs in that sense)
This is so beyond awesome. I remember when I was about 12, and I saw the neighbor's dad's oscilloscope in the basement, and wanted to play with it... I wanted one. I still want one. I also remember liking the way the image shrunk when you turned off the TV. That and the freaky ghost image that stayed on the screen afterwards from the tube. I used to turn the TV off and on just to see that. Until I got yelled at.
This is visual Techno. This is a visual representation of what I see when I listen to the stuff from the 80s and early 90s that came from The Belleville Three, UR, Drexcya, et al.
Nick, you gave me a great idea at 6:24. I, like you, am obsessed with these graphics, and I'm trying to achieve this look digital editors. But you hit the nail on the head at about 6:24. I made a video with this grid like scanamate style, then what I did was use my cell phone camera (can not wait until I can get a professional one) and shot the video, as it played on the computer. Even with the low quality cell phone camera, it had that glowy look to it. Thanks for the idea.
What the presenter is missing with the newer stuff is the randomness of the analog equipment, the breadth of results one can get from simply dicking around with knobs and connections, the happy accidents which result.
I'm actually curious about the other elements in some of these clips. The artwork taken into the machine is monochrome. I understand you can change the color of the output, but how did they deal with actual images. For instance you have a product, say, a shampoo bottle. It's sitting there in the middle. It may have a glowing outline with a starfield in the background. How do you deal with the actual photographs or artwork. For instance also radio station logos, they look all airbrushed and what not, but then have the animation. Are the actual full-color artwork and/or photographs something added after the fact (or before)? So maybe the shampoo bottle in the example is actually overlayed with chromakey, but then the glowing outline is made off of the scanned monochrome image? Much more interested in how they get these other cool effects, where maybe in some big production they use animation cameras and it's all totally non-computer.
This machine is very cool, I wish someone went and studied the machine and made a clone of it so people can buy it and mess around with it because it would be very cool to mess around with knobs and buttons and hook random things up to it to see what things I can get out of it
Love this! The closest thing that somehow perfectly emulated this technique in the modern era is the mock opening news title sequence of Paramore's 'Rose Colored Boy', perfectly executed by Director Warren Fu, love his retro blueprint in his works!
Beautiful..! I had no idea anything like that ever existed. KK is right. Provisions must be made to preserve that machine. Thanks for signing a light on this obscure bit of nerd history....
The spanish public TV, TVE used this thing for: 1976 TV broadcast intro (there no was 24h TV) 1982 TV broadcast intro (if You Search Cortinilla TVE 1982 BetaRip you'll find it) 1983 ads bumpers (used in the 2 TV Channels until 1987 and used in 1984 in The french TV TF-1)
This! Is! Awesome! Pure inspiration for a lot of the stuff I do now. I grew up with some of this stuff still happening in the late 80s. It has such a beautifully different type of ingenuity and beauty. Glad to see this being explored and preserved in your video. P.S. That foil technique!!! I need an excuse to try it.
Curious... how many were built? I know personally of three, but I’m guessing maybe ten ?? We’re there any hardware variants, or did they all have the same bundle of oscillators, amplifiers, filters etc...? 11:53 is so true... we always had a ‘tweaker’ in our pockets... but remember to restore unity before you left the building ! The shot at 13:03 is sooo familiar ! Brings great memories back... the frames were rarely pushed back in to the racks !
Given the love for the hand-on aspect of controlling the equipment, I suppose I'll get shot for suggesting this, but what would be neat to me would be to create versions of this with motor-driven rotary and slide pots, switchbars, etc., VCOs and ADCs to record and playback all the manual figgiting around. Do an image generation segment, you have it all recorded and repeatable on demand. If the setting recording is itself analog, then you have something like a sampler. If it's digitized then it's even alterable in a preplanned way. Then the recording/playback machine becomes as complicated as the image generator.....oh well.
that’s how we do presets for synthesizers, too, so it’s definitely doable if you only tweak knobs and the patch matrix, but they mentioned they opened up the machine and used screwdrivers etc, and you can’t create presets for that, unfortunately. however it definitely sounds like a doable thing and i’m surprised they didn’t have that. on the flip side, creating presets assumes you actually WANT to re-create the same effect again, but not allowing for presets means every effect WILL be different and each try to re-create an effect will be imperfect, something which can be a positive thing (as mentioned by the narrator)
The people preserving the Scanimate actually have another Scanimate in the same house for parts. But it would be very difficult to make a new one. The most important part, the CRT, would have to be custom made for sure. Good luck getting approval to make leaded glass nowadays
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Justice - DVNO video did a nice job emulating this.
He's response was the same when I found about these analog live generated motion graphics. I just felt that all digital stuffs were hokes of the originals. But who am I to judge.
This totally helped me understand the thought process behind After Effects and why some stuff seems so unintuitive. Seems like they were trying to emulate this analog technology. Similar to how Photoshop emulates analog photo development. Fascinating stuff. The procedural animations are mind blowing
People have learned to make digital scanimate replications using Blender. I cannot express my jealousy. I hope someone, some day, makes a scanimate replication tool that works almost exactly, where everything is "real time" using a digital oscilloscope and other features.
@@crt3275 He just walked you through all of it. Gaussian blur/bloom from the CRT, internal optical reflections of the environment, vector transformation of the incoming raster scan. That's literally the core of the look. Later plugins to break the incoming raster into regions and apply vector distortion separately by region, and convert brightness to hue, are self evident. There is another video on UA-cam showing a guy who recreated the basic function with an oscilloscope, mixing deck, and some analog multiplication chips.
@@danrbarlow i know how crts work. i have written crt emulators. but trying to recreate this machine in software without at least some sort of specifications sheet would be ridiculous. otherwise i would do it
I stumbled over this video because i love video games, but for some years now their digital and continuoslye evolving graphics did not amaze me as much as they obviously do with most people. Everything develops only in one direction: more perfect, more details, more polygons, more high-res. I know there are many games that feature non-realistic graphic styles like comics etc. but even they often look to perfect and soul-lacking to me. So now i have seen this video and i'm just wondering if these kind of effects could ever be also used in a digital video game? I don't know if that makes sense in a technical way but i would find that really interesting and refreshing :)
I love the DuMont logo on the monitor. That has to be a joke, right? I actually bought a DuMont color tv at the lakeside rummage sale in 1993 and it was ancient at that time, and so heavy that my 14 year old self couldn't carry it to the car alone.
So the answer to a problem is hardware not software as it has always been. This is why now we can do so much in video, graphics and audio because finally the hardware for normal consumers has caught up to software from 10 years ago. This is also why consumers will always be behind professionals because the price of hardware takes years to reach the masses.
them filming the screen suprised me. I thought that was just the janky way to capture the CRT look nowadays.. learned a lot from this video but more importantly learned that I know a lot less than I thought I did😂
If I were to attempt it, this would be my method: • Make the graphics digitally • Speed them up to 120fps • Crank up a Sun Microsystems GDM-5510 to 120hz • Film it on the CRT with the appropriate framerate and shutter speed • Slow the footage back down to original framerate (The speed thing is to amplify the "trailing" effects I get)
Honestly, I'm not sure they want amateurs toying with these very expensive and very rare machines (Dave Seig's are the only two still operable!) As far as I've been able to tell, they're not even taking commissions.
Dave, or anybody, PLEASE tell me how you did that effect with those Disco dancers which is at the 2:37 mark of the 1978 image west demo reel. I know they're real people, but how did you make them look glowy and annimated?
That machine HAS to be preserved and passed down to future generations who want to replicate it.
I hope it becomes open and accessible for anyone to use!
@@JesseScott2016 I agree. Even just the schematics would be helpful.
Unfortunately you said want and future might not want. Glad that one guy is keeping his alive.
somone app around out how to do it in blender
Having a scanimate machine is no longer required for recreating the style! I have two particular friends who can easily replicate the style in near perfect detail all within blender 2.79.
You have to love the aluminum foil technique at 6:44.
pure creativity right there
We used a shallow oil bath in front of the CRT.
If you were really good,use a thin wire to create outward ripples etc.
@@laustinspeissoil bath?
@@fritz3802 flat oil pan reflecting the CRT image, and shooting with another camera at the opposite angle with as much geometric correction needed to keep the image ‘square’.
Oil was better than water as it was ‘thicker, slower “, and didn’t tend to foam, or bubble. When it arrived, Digital image processing made it all simple!
@@laustinspeiss what kind of oil
One interesting thing is that now we can mix analog and digital. Making the basic movement/effect in after effect, put the result on a CRT screen, point a camera to it and let the magic flow. Or, we can transpose this complete machine in the digital domine as an After Effect plugin, literally!
I actually thought of something similar. To get a Scanimate look, I would film a CRT playing it. Only difference is I would speed up the footage to 120fps for displaying on the monitor so the trailing effects are more visible at normal speed. I would also play black and white on the CRT and Luma key it later, like what you see at 5:31 but digitally
I've tried this after I first saw this video. The video I made look authentic
For me as a young IT specialist, this is something absolutelly majestic. Now, there is nothing even remotely as magical as this. Everything is digital, perfect, precise, but it lacks the soul of these fascinating machines.
yeah it feels so human but at the same time unhuman wich just makes it majestic
Someone NEEDS to learn this machine from the masters - to keep this knowledge alive.
I'm obsessed with this era of motion graphics. When most people see this, they think it's dated and cheesy. I see it as warm and human, even though it's created by a machine. As a video editor, I get all my inspiration from the Image West demo reel, and the Cars music video. I'm trying to figure out how to master these type of effects with nu Skool editors. sometimes I create pics as frames, and ad a glow afterwards. since you love this as much as I do, what are some good plugins?
I've always been the same with the Cars song. I love the graphics, but the synthesizers were what drew me in more deeply. The combination of the two is unbeatable. I think there would be a real market for something like this coupled with today's trend of "vaporwave" music. A video made with a Scanimate is a perfect match.
I feel like this era contrasts with the later early CGI era of video effects. Early CGI seems robotic and unhuman which can be a plus or minus depending on how you look at it. I prefer Scanimate videos over videos of old CGI.
There's certainly a craft to this.
Couldn't agree more. Those analogic animations have soul.
It's a minor detail but I love that they can effortlessly & precisely integrate the output of a 21st century computer into a Scanimate workflow through VGA
Absolute geniuses. Sticking the logo into the machine and it was 300% more amazing! Thanks for the vid!
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I tried to build something like this myself when I was a young adult, using an array of old retired video switchers and vision mixers I scrounged at TV studios. The big mistake I made was that I tried to record the distorted signal directly on tape. Of course my VCR did not accept a distorted video signal and so the recording frequently failed. So first I thought I needed a professional VCR and switched from VHS to 3/4 inch. However the problem persisted. So I assumed a TBC might be the solution, but the TBC just tried to compensate the deliberate distortion thereby "destroying" my video art. It never occurred to me that I just needed to record the distorted image with a video camera from a screen. Unfortunately I had to give up on this when I married. My wife had no appreciation for this strange hobby. So I had to dismantle my studio. The good equipment went onto eBay, the rest to the junkyard.
Dude, this story is tragic. Why would your wife not support your passions????? My options are either I'm supported in my endeavours or I'm single. (Evidently im single heh)
Well what you were doing sounds a bit different because it sounds like you are directly manipulating the video signal rather than plotting it in funny ways like the scanimate does. What you were doing is probably harder.
man, your wife is lame. i mean you dont need to be interested in your spouse's hobbies but just let them do it if it makes them happy. a happy spouse is a good spouse.
The video synthesizer I used was the Rutt-Etra. It was an infinitely simpler and primitive analog video synthesizer. During 1977-78, I used it at the Ontario College of Art to produce video art. I still have my own setup diagrams. I used it with audio oscillators, video cameras, VTRs, video and audio mixers, etc. I also used a fax machine to manipulate images.
I was one of two people who operated a Rutt-Etra Video Synthesizer at a production facility called AAV Australia, in Melbourne, Australia. I see all these clips about Scanimate and wonder where the Rutt-Etra fitted into the scheme of things. Did it pre-date Scanimate? I am fairly certain some of the Sesame Street animation sequences credited to Scanimate were actually produced on a Rutt-Etra.
As someone who is inspired by these retro designs and effects and hoping to one day apply it to future work, it brings me a great deal of joy to finally know the actual term for these types of effect that were so Synonymous with late 70s early 80s commercials and Television specials as well as to also know the people behind it who made it part of our culture. Thank you Roy and Dave for preserving this special piece of our history and Thank you LinkedIn for such an excellent video on the wonders of Scanimate!
I've always been an avid lover of that type of graphic motion. I grew up with it and have been trying to find the source of it for the longest time. I have found 5 things here in youtube that I have questioned from the longest time since I was a boy.
I had just been watching the Computer Image Corporation showreel from 1975 and then this showed up, imagine my surprise! Absolutely wonderful to watch and I'm in awe of this hardware and its beautiful image creating capabilities.
I've spent entire days trying to emulate that Scanimate or celluloid on film look. You'll get 99% there & scratch your head trying to figure out that last missing 1% of the equation. Well friends, it's film gate. That's what you're missing. Throw it all into a single comp & slap the tiniest of wiggle expressions on there with a random evolution.
I love the fact " once we change the patch cords we can’t duplicate that tomorrow ". I agree it is beautiful
Its amazing these guys played this machine like an instrument.
4:02 - This is truly spectacular. I'd love to see a step-by-step of how they scanimate video like this.
There are some "Introduction to the Scanimate" videos on UA-cam where Dave Sieg explains Scanimate motions in a beginner-friendly way (since only 8 Scanimate were ever made, and few knew how to use them. They're like Theater Organs in that sense)
@@doctordothraki4378 I bet Behringer could make a few more 🤣
This is so beyond awesome. I remember when I was about 12, and I saw the neighbor's dad's oscilloscope in the basement, and wanted to play with it... I wanted one. I still want one. I also remember liking the way the image shrunk when you turned off the TV. That and the freaky ghost image that stayed on the screen afterwards from the tube. I used to turn the TV off and on just to see that. Until I got yelled at.
Randy Colby you can get a pretty nice old analog oscilloscope on ebay for as little 50 dollars. they are pretty easy to find and nice to use.
WOW! This brings me much needed closure .
This is visual Techno. This is a visual representation of what I see when I listen to the stuff from the 80s and early 90s that came from The Belleville Three, UR, Drexcya, et al.
Nick, you gave me a great idea at 6:24. I, like you, am obsessed with these graphics, and I'm trying to achieve this look digital editors. But you hit the nail on the head at about 6:24. I made a video with this grid like scanamate style, then what I did was use my cell phone camera (can not wait until I can get a professional one) and shot the video, as it played on the computer. Even with the low quality cell phone camera, it had that glowy look to it. Thanks for the idea.
was the screen lcd or does it hav to be crt?
I wish it was still a World when a regular guy could just fall into something like that, everythings so much more complicated now
Keep looking,trust me ,its there, you have just need to be the first to find it !!!!!!
Nope, everything is just simpler now, we need only to mix pure analog and digital together
15:22 "The easier it gets though, the farther away you get from what's really going on." True for many things in life.
What the presenter is missing with the newer stuff is the randomness of the analog equipment, the breadth of results one can get from simply dicking around with knobs and connections, the happy accidents which result.
I'm actually curious about the other elements in some of these clips. The artwork taken into the machine is monochrome. I understand you can change the color of the output, but how did they deal with actual images. For instance you have a product, say, a shampoo bottle. It's sitting there in the middle. It may have a glowing outline with a starfield in the background. How do you deal with the actual photographs or artwork. For instance also radio station logos, they look all airbrushed and what not, but then have the animation. Are the actual full-color artwork and/or photographs something added after the fact (or before)? So maybe the shampoo bottle in the example is actually overlayed with chromakey, but then the glowing outline is made off of the scanned monochrome image? Much more interested in how they get these other cool effects, where maybe in some big production they use animation cameras and it's all totally non-computer.
I think this was back when Machines worked for Humans!
Yes the human was the thinking part of the machine.
This machine is very cool, I wish someone went and studied the machine and made a clone of it so people can buy it and mess around with it because it would be very cool to mess around with knobs and buttons and hook random things up to it to see what things I can get out of it
Love this! The closest thing that somehow perfectly emulated this technique in the modern era is the mock opening news title sequence of Paramore's 'Rose Colored Boy', perfectly executed by Director Warren Fu, love his retro blueprint in his works!
Beautiful..! I had no idea anything like that ever existed.
KK is right. Provisions must be made to preserve that machine. Thanks for signing a light on this obscure bit of nerd history....
this machine is from before i was born, but i am so fascinated by it, it is so incredible i just wish i could play with it myself.
7:50 acceleration, deceleration and anticipation in animation go way before this awesome guys
Amazing. Loved this for so long. Glad to have finally found out the name: Scanimation
I remember my brief stint working at a NY company that leased two Scanimates. It was always amazing to see the masters at work.
The spanish public TV, TVE used this thing for:
1976 TV broadcast intro (there no was 24h TV)
1982 TV broadcast intro (if You Search Cortinilla TVE 1982 BetaRip you'll find it)
1983 ads bumpers (used in the 2 TV Channels until 1987 and used in 1984 in The french TV TF-1)
This! Is! Awesome! Pure inspiration for a lot of the stuff I do now. I grew up with some of this stuff still happening in the late 80s. It has such a beautifully different type of ingenuity and beauty. Glad to see this being explored and preserved in your video.
P.S. That foil technique!!! I need an excuse to try it.
Let's design this with Field Programmable Analog Array, PSOC and GreanPak 7004 controlling a CRT. This is gonna be an awesome project.
Curious... how many were built?
I know personally of three, but I’m guessing maybe ten ??
We’re there any hardware variants, or did they all have the same bundle of oscillators, amplifiers, filters etc...?
11:53 is so true... we always had a ‘tweaker’ in our pockets... but remember to restore unity before you left the building !
The shot at 13:03 is sooo familiar ! Brings great memories back... the frames were rarely pushed back in to the racks !
Wow, how awesome!!! I know how you feel, bro. There's something about the 80's... it's called NOSTALGIA!!! Great video, thanks man!!
This essentially used video signals as a canvas to make art on.
This is a treasure
Wish someone would build this as a piece of software just like we have guitar amps and synth emulators.
What if someone combined Anime with Scanimation?
Scanime!
It may not be 100% what your looking for but here you go.
ua-cam.com/video/x2xmM91_zJE/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/u3RfUmywBik/v-deo.html
Oh...
In some cases, Scanimates didn't just supplement cel animation, but REPLACED it. See ua-cam.com/video/XLMA8w2jryk/v-deo.html
Given the love for the hand-on aspect of controlling the equipment, I suppose I'll get shot for suggesting this, but what would be neat to me would be to create versions of this with motor-driven rotary and slide pots, switchbars, etc., VCOs and ADCs to record and playback all the manual figgiting around. Do an image generation segment, you have it all recorded and repeatable on demand. If the setting recording is itself analog, then you have something like a sampler. If it's digitized then it's even alterable in a preplanned way. Then the recording/playback machine becomes as complicated as the image generator.....oh well.
that’s how we do presets for synthesizers, too, so it’s definitely doable if you only tweak knobs and the patch matrix, but they mentioned they opened up the machine and used screwdrivers etc, and you can’t create presets for that, unfortunately.
however it definitely sounds like a doable thing and i’m surprised they didn’t have that.
on the flip side, creating presets assumes you actually WANT to re-create the same effect again, but not allowing for presets means every effect WILL be different and each try to re-create an effect will be imperfect, something which can be a positive thing (as mentioned by the narrator)
Wow! I wonder how difficult it would be to build another one as a backup.
The people preserving the Scanimate actually have another Scanimate in the same house for parts. But it would be very difficult to make a new one. The most important part, the CRT, would have to be custom made for sure. Good luck getting approval to make leaded glass nowadays
Justice - DVNO video did a nice job emulating this.
This is how the 1970s computer graphic machine has revealed. 😉
He's response was the same when I found about these analog live generated motion graphics. I just felt that all digital stuffs were hokes of the originals. But who am I to judge.
I still do similar kind of effects and film them on camera as rear-projection for my cartoons = )
Never thought it was a thing way back then....
By the late 1980s, 3D computer graphics took over as the world know today.
Absolutely beautiful and aesthetic
i remember 1979/1980 video effects by RTL PRODUCTIONS in luxembourg they had one......wonderful machine !!
This totally helped me understand the thought process behind After Effects and why some stuff seems so unintuitive. Seems like they were trying to emulate this analog technology. Similar to how Photoshop emulates analog photo development. Fascinating stuff. The procedural animations are mind blowing
2:19 J.R. "Bob" Dobbs reference!
I want to learn how to use this along with Ampex Digital Optics (ADO 100/1000) and old Grass Valley 300 switchers.
Anyone knows what the song at 9:30 is please ? Can’t find it anywhere :(
This level of rad is off the hook!
Outstanding stuff. Beautiful imagery
*11:00** IS WHERE JONTRON GOT HIS INTRO*
I heard about the machine, but I did not know that colonel Sanders was involved!
It almost feels a bit like a modular synthesizer for video. A video moog.
that aesthetics are amazing....
8:03 The captions should say sine not sign
People have learned to make digital scanimate replications using Blender. I cannot express my jealousy. I hope someone, some day, makes a scanimate replication tool that works almost exactly, where everything is "real time" using a digital oscilloscope and other features.
11:16 WOAH I hope these will be available online someday
cant they input the video signal through the RGB signal lines of the crt instead of through a camera?
It's the voltage to the TV circuit itself that is doing most of this movement and manipulation. So it needs to be filmed off of a screen.
This is fascinating.
If that isn’t the coolest machine then I don’t know what is!
Someone should create a motion graphics software inspired by this kind of workflow.
there does not exist enough detailed information/specification on the internal workings to do so
@@crt3275 He just walked you through all of it. Gaussian blur/bloom from the CRT, internal optical reflections of the environment, vector transformation of the incoming raster scan. That's literally the core of the look. Later plugins to break the incoming raster into regions and apply vector distortion separately by region, and convert brightness to hue, are self evident. There is another video on UA-cam showing a guy who recreated the basic function with an oscilloscope, mixing deck, and some analog multiplication chips.
@@danrbarlow i know how crts work. i have written crt emulators. but trying to recreate this machine in software without at least some sort of specifications sheet would be ridiculous. otherwise i would do it
I stumbled over this video because i love video games, but for some years now their digital and continuoslye evolving graphics did not amaze me as much as they obviously do with most people. Everything develops only in one direction: more perfect, more details, more polygons, more high-res. I know there are many games that feature non-realistic graphic styles like comics etc. but even they often look to perfect and soul-lacking to me. So now i have seen this video and i'm just wondering if these kind of effects could ever be also used in a digital video game? I don't know if that makes sense in a technical way but i would find that really interesting and refreshing :)
You reminded me that when they were making Alien: Isolation, the team actually filmed CRTs to make the screens in-game look more authentic
I need the open source for this ! 😂❤
How about musical part of it? Iis it made on Synthezator? t is interesting as well.
yuhp, same principals too
Could anyone tell me the name of the soundtrack at 3:51? :)
Why are you holding your phone the wrong way at 15:50?
Awesome flashback guys!
I love the DuMont logo on the monitor. That has to be a joke, right? I actually bought a DuMont color tv at the lakeside rummage sale in 1993 and it was ancient at that time, and so heavy that my 14 year old self couldn't carry it to the car alone.
20th century intangible cultural heritage... This is my child dream...
So the answer to a problem is hardware not software as it has always been. This is why now we can do so much in video, graphics and audio because finally the hardware for normal consumers has caught up to software from 10 years ago. This is also why consumers will always be behind professionals because the price of hardware takes years to reach the masses.
Just mind blowing.
Wow I feel enlightened. This is cool stuff
Underrated video
them filming the screen suprised me. I thought that was just the janky way to capture the CRT look nowadays.. learned a lot from this video but more importantly learned that I know a lot less than I thought I did😂
Who the fuck would dislike this? My like has brought this to 666 likes!
Is Dolphin Productions using with computer?
It is almost bizar how we forgot about how powerful analog computers actually are!
Bro genius ❤
2023 needs an emulation of this Device before it’s gone forever
How did they scan the logo into the machine?
He added a VGA input to the system. The old way is to print it out and aim a camera at it.
SOMEBODY just came, probably twice
Does anybody know of a software that you can use to make this 80s animation “look” ?
After effects and studying out the analog techniques. Look up "procedural animation" in after effects
If I were to attempt it, this would be my method:
• Make the graphics digitally
• Speed them up to 120fps
• Crank up a Sun Microsystems GDM-5510 to 120hz
• Film it on the CRT with the appropriate framerate and shutter speed
• Slow the footage back down to original framerate
(The speed thing is to amplify the "trailing" effects I get)
Some of these animations are just simply not possible with digital video editors. Analogue just works! What you see is what you get.
Fascinating.
Know what would be awesome? Stranger Things title using Scanimate!
really hope the equipment gets donated to some type of space where u can rent the use of these machines
Honestly, I'm not sure they want amateurs toying with these very expensive and very rare machines (Dave Seig's are the only two still operable!) As far as I've been able to tell, they're not even taking commissions.
I want one. so. badly.
Dave, or anybody, PLEASE tell me how you did that effect with those Disco dancers which is at the 2:37 mark of the 1978 image west demo reel. I know they're real people, but how did you make them look glowy and annimated?
really cool.
(upbeat music)
The epitome of “Retro”
This is awesome
The grandpa's of S Y N T H W A V E
They are not telling him the origin of that kind of analog video effects...? Wich is the video larsen...