‘Your Brain Isn’t Ready for This’ Face Melding Animation
- Posted on November 21, 2011 at 4:27pm by
Liz Klimas
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Watching this rippling video of face melding into face can be both hypnotizing and dizzying. Created by animator and web designer Micaël Reynaud, “amalgamation” is composed of photographs by Michael Jang’s “Summer Weather”, which was shot in 1983.
Watch the mesmerizing 1:24 minute video and try to hold out toward the end where the animation gets calmer:
The Daily Mail has more on what has quickly become a viral sensation:
Mr Reynaud, through his company Dunun, creates and develops what he calls “original, interactive and ludic multimedia projects”.
“My objective is to create surprising works,’”he writes on his website, adding that he is “always aiming to reach the best quality even if some will certainly describe me as a maniac.”
The piece has certainly earned the eccentric artist attention since he uploaded it on video sharing website vimeo.com on November 19, where it boasts over 12,000 views.
But on image sharing websites like Reddit and Imgur, it has exploded in popularity, with nearly 8,000 up votes and over 1 million views respectively.
Viewers have been quick to praise the work — and some to shun his use of eye-popping technology.
“Your brain is not ready for this”, reads a posting on Reddit.
What do you think? Fascinating use of animation technology or nauseating spin from one image to another?
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Comments (55)
cemerius
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 11:18amWait til Al Sharpton sees this video and the ACLU jumps in….I saw no black faces melded!! Must be racist art from 1983 and parts of moustaches looked a little like hitler too. Subliminal racism? ha ha can you feel the sarcasm here?
Report Post »Miki Russell
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 1:47pmGuess I missed the sarcasm. Or maybe just tired of everything being about race. I saw a bunch of black faces in there. Hard to see in the first half but as it slows down very easy to see. Did anyone see other minorities in there?
Report Post »Sergei
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:39pmSee something say something… I just saw morphing faces. I’m calling Butch Palitano
Report Post »bobemakk
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 4:42pmwhat a great reply….
Report Post »Jumper
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 10:51amKinda neat.
Report Post »TexasWax
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 10:24amStupid VFX compositing trick.(really I know how to do it) Seriously not that amazing and NOT all that much ART.
Report Post »dont_drive_slow_in_the_left_lane_obliviot
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 10:22amwaste of 1:24. i’m sure this idiot is occupying somewhere right about now.
Report Post »droopy
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 3:16pmGrumpy old fart.
Report Post »thruthewormhole
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 8:46amoooooooooo…my mind wasn’t ready for that! What an unbelievable piece of crap!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 8:29am“Watching this rippling video of face melding into face can be both hypnotizing and dizzying???”
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Put me to sleep. I expected this great video and waited for something spectacular to happen, but…. nothing.
There must be a hell of a lot of bored people to be calling this “eye-popping.“ This ”eccentric artist” hasn‘t done anything I haven’t seen done better elsewhere.
“Your brain is not ready for this” Yeah, right. The artist isn’t a maniac, he’s mentally challenged.
LimbaughJr
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 8:19amIt is too early in the morning for crap like that….
Report Post »marine43
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 7:57amHeres the original….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtPRF6NG7I better song to boot.
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 9:11amMuch better.
Report Post »Khedewia
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 10:10amYeah, this version is much better!
Report Post »patricius
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 7:52amBeautiful!
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 6:29amCouldn’t view the video. There are too many external scripts on this page and my NoScript add-on blocks them. Next story…
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 6:07amSilly and a waste of my time.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 4:12amOh, I get it. The Blaze is trying to get into the Guinness book for World’s Dumbest Freaking Story!!!
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 5:37amwow…one of the trillions of moderately interesting things in this world. almost as cool as the google swiss “what’s that up in the sky” thing.
Report Post »Jabocx
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 2:47amI guess my brain was just not ready for that.
Report Post »Scotto
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:58amGodley and Cream – “Cry” 1985
Nothing new
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 5:22amExactly! Wonder whatever happened to them?
Report Post »jeremymy
Posted on November 22, 2011 at 12:55amMy props go to the software genius who wrote the algorithm to do that.
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:56pmI think I just wasted a minute of my life…
Report Post »SgtB
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:10pmReminds me of the suits they wear in that movie with Keanu Reeves about a gov’t employee who is supposed to be tracking the source of a drug epidemic. Anyway, they wear suits while at work that change their physical characteristics so that they do not look like any specific person and so their identiry remains secret. The film was “A Scanner Darkly” and it has a twist ending. It’s actually not a bad movie if you can stand the way it is rendered and the drug abuse. The ending makes it good for anyone who is anti-big gov’t though.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:17pmGMTA Sgtb
Report Post »smellycat
Posted on November 23, 2011 at 3:32pmNice.
Report Post »I also thought of the ‘scramble suits’ from A Scanner Darkly. Great book and a great movie.
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:19pmI’m suddenly having bad memories of Clay Face from the old Batman Cartoon when he goes crazy… It is not pleasant.
Report Post »Supercalafragalisticexpialidotious
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:41pmWoah! Exactly!
Clayface was always one of the villains who really had the ability to be properly terrifying when he was in the same room- or a few blocks away, lol.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:14pmReminds me of the scramble suits in “A Scanner Darkly.” I think using this effect would have looked even better in the movie, but the film used a unique rotoscoping technique.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:21pmFunny, I was watching a TAS episode with Clayface a little earlier today.
Exactly!
Report Post »OKConservative
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:04pmThis is amazing!!! Not. I thought it was just YouTube where you end up stumbling down what I call the rabbit hole. You know – that place where you end up with disfigured animals, ants eating centipedes or phone-cam street brawls. This is not technology nor entertaining. Heck “she takes a photo every day: 2.5 years” has been around since 2007 and is more creative than this. I was hoping for some news. Guess I’ll go watch some YouTube instead.
Report Post »ScreaminEagle
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 9:36pmYea Thats pretty stupid.
Report Post »Ssenkrad
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 9:52pmStupid? This is actually the top news story of the day. In fact, I can’t think of any other Blaze article that has been so riveting, so touching, so life-changing… dare I say that this is not the article of the day, but the article of the century. God speed, Blaze, you handsome rogues.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 9:14pmNothing spectacular. As interesting as watching grass grow.
Report Post »SerikFox
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:53pmApparently my brain was ready. I don’t get what the point of this is.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 9:05pmIt’s Modern ART… there is No Point! But, it probably was supported with Tax Payer Dollars… so, you paid for it!
Report Post »Searchingforthelight
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 7:31pmhttp://youtu.be/5fPmKfcaaWk
Report Post »skitrees
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:56pmThis is SO 1990s
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 6:46pmWhen you are forced into your gym locker in 9th grade because you’re are afraid to shower with the guys… this is the stuff that they will dream up. Call it…. Revenge of the Nerds.
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