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Year
'26
Client
Service
Art Direction, Video Editing, Design Services
Collaboration between PhD student Ahmed Amr at Cornell University and myself. Created primarily in TouchDesigner with DaVinci Resolve used for color-grading and other post-processing.
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Process
After Ahmed provided me with his original documentary footage, I took some time to brainstorm creative concepts and visual messaging pertaining to the theme of a portrait of water.
I utilized Behance, Are.na, free stock images, and Pinterest to brainstorm and collate images that matched the artistic vision I had in mind. Carl Jung and his works like The Red Book are a huge inspiration to Ahmed and I, so I knew I wanted this project to feel in communication with his symbology and teachings.
Miro came in handy for developing design documentation and prototype procedures.
Technical Details
Most of the effects were created using the following techniques in TouchDesigner:
Blob tracking
Time Machine warping
Pixel sorting
Face recognition and tracking
Unreal-Inspired Real-Time Renderer
Voxel Engine