Time is a Jellyfish -- by Kyle Anderson

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Author: the area Author URL: visit url Posted: Aug 18, 2009

Software: Autodesk Maya

Description: Time is a Jellyfish is a short animation about how time is ambiguous, a jellyfish. I created it at Loyalkaspar for their 5th anniversary between projects in a span of two or so months. The look was inspired by artist Dale Chihuly and his glass sculpture. It was created in Maya 2008 and composited in After Effects. The animation aesthetic was meant to be a mixture of organic and ridgid using hand animation, dynamic curves and non-linear deformers.  It was rendered in Mental Ray using standard Maya software shaders except for a parti_volume_photon node which was used to create the light rays. The environment particles were done in maya instead of particular. The sound was created by Jasper Reinhart Knudsen Berg. I'd like to thank everyone at Loyalkaspar for giving me the opportunity to make this animation.

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	Posted by edelweiss on Oct 16, 2009 at 02:22 AM
this a beautiful piece

	Posted by Virajitha Lanka on Aug 28, 2009 at 01:25 AM
indeed....time IS a non linear,variable..well done..

	Posted by Kyle Anderson on Aug 26, 2009 at 11:30 PM
Thanks for the nice comments. Jared - I'd really like to see your underwater shot when you're done. rbralynski - Yeah I was lighting the head of the jellyfish when maya froze and the mac beach ball came up next to the head and I said to myself wow they look so similar. What if the jellyfish turned into a mac beach ball. it was an epiphany.

	Posted by rbralynski on Aug 22, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Clever use of the SBBOD

	Posted by Jared Edwards on Aug 21, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Great job, Kyle! This is actually very similar to a stylized underwater shot I've been working on. The huge array of colors and particles really make this a beautiful piece. I look forward to seeing more of your work.