{"id":1238,"date":"2016-12-13T13:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:53:41","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:53:41","slug":"the-chemical-brothers-wide-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2016\/12\/13\/the-chemical-brothers-wide-open\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chemical Brothers: &#8220;Wide Open&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year <a href=\"http:\/\/tokyodemofest.jp\/2016\/#seminar3\">at Tokyo Demo Fest 2016<\/a>, we were honored with the presence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidangle.com\/\">Solid Angle<\/a>&#8216;s founder, Marcos Fajardo, who did a long presentation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidangle.com\/arnold\/\">Arnold renderer<\/a>. Various examples of productions that involved Arnold were included, like captures from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0371746\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Iron Man<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1535108\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\">Elysium<\/a>, but between those blockbusters one production in particular held my attention.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solidangle.com\/dynamic_resources\/gallery_images\/chembros_wideopen_5\/chembros_wideopen_5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a long shot of a dancer turning limb after limb into a lattice body while performing. That film is in fact the music video of the song &#8220;Wide Open&#8221;, by the Chemical Brothers, and directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domandnic.com\/\">Dom&#038;Nic<\/a>. It is a brilliant piece of technical and artistic work, that I can only recommend to watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BC2dRkm8ATU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of the details of the creation are shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxguide.com\/featured\/so-just-how-was-that-chemical-brothers-video-made\/\">an article by the excellent fxguide<\/a>, as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidangle.com\/news\/chemical-brothers-wide-open\/\">this interview for Solid Angle<\/a>, like for example how they dealt with the challenges posed by a single long shot under varying natural light. Finally, there is this behind the scenes video from the studio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themill.com\/\">The Mill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/154038415\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year at Tokyo Demo Fest 2016, we were honored with the presence of Solid Angle&#8216;s founder, Marcos Fajardo, who did a long presentation of the Arnold renderer. Various examples of productions that involved Arnold were included, like captures &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2016\/12\/13\/the-chemical-brothers-wide-open\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,100,17],"tags":[101,480,868,541,878,866,872,832,870,869,871,510,867,873,481,874,859],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-film-2","category-rendering","tag-animation","tag-arnold","tag-arri","tag-camera","tag-choregraphy","tag-dance","tag-fbfx","tag-houdini","tag-lds","tag-lens-data-system","tag-lidar","tag-long-shot","tag-motion-capture","tag-photogrammetry","tag-solid-angle","tag-tracking","tag-vfx"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Chemical Brothers: &quot;Wide Open&quot; &#8211; Light is beautiful<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2016\/12\/13\/the-chemical-brothers-wide-open\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Chemical Brothers: &quot;Wide Open&quot; &#8211; Light is beautiful\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earlier this year at Tokyo Demo Fest 2016, we were honored with the presence of Solid Angle&#8216;s founder, Marcos Fajardo, who did a long presentation of the Arnold renderer. 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