This unofficial Tron Legacy music video, Light Drive, features stop motion light painting by Kim Pimmel:
I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some audio from the Tron Legacy trailers, and out came Light Drive.
The video is stop motion, so every frame is an individually shot photograph. Each photograph is a long exposure photo, with exposures reaching up to 20 seconds in some cases.
To control the lights, I used an Arduino controlled via bluetooth to drive a stepper motor. The stepper motor controls the movements of the lights remotely from Processing.
The light sources include cold cathode case lights, EL wire, lasers and more.
Pimmel gets some amazing images, using relatively simple tools.
Check out the video and let me know what you think!
Awesome!
damn…it was too short. fucking awesome video… make a longer version!
hope the movie is as good as this little vid
Great work! Could be developed into a winning entry for any animation/wild compo on a demo scene party. But before that the artist should think about a new last name. Pimmel means c*ck in German. 😉