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Summary: Great DVD
Comment: Wonderful action and music. 4 year old grandchildren were asked if they wanted to see a new Christmas video and they said no, they wanted the "robot music" one!
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Summary: Keeps amazing you!
Comment: No words to say what Wayne accomplish with these titles, Animusic 1 and 2. A must have in your collection (buy the first one as well). The entire family will enjoy it!
I don't think anyone has made something like these Animusic DVDs. The Animusic 2 DVD has a great feature that the first one doesn't, and that is containing both Full and Widescreen on the same DVD. Nice touch!
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Summary: Fantastic!
Comment: Animusic 2 is as good or better than the original Animusic - which was incredible! Each of the 8 music videos is unique and engaging. My students are already asking for an Animusic 3 - I hope Mr. Lytle creates one!
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Summary: Another great collection
Comment: Wayne Lytle and his team present another great portfolio of music animations - the kind of thing you might get if Pixar animated Rube Goldberg doing Fantasia. These 8 pieces cover a wide range of looks and sounds, from the classic visual and artistic styles of Resonant Chamber to the massive, brooding temple of Heavy Light, to Fiber Bundles' organic imagery. Although parts of Animusic 1 reappear here, these scenes not only do well in themselves, they go well beyond the complexity of that earlier set.
Except for a piece from Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," these all present Lytle's own musical compositions. Although they vary, many show influences from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and other music from that era. Lytle updates the sound, though, suffusing each piece with a happy energy. That cheerful tone comes through especially in Fiber Bundles - its bio-inspired geometries remind me of H.R. Giger, but with a bouncy charm wholly opposite Giger's brooding nightmares.
Extras on this disk help stretch out the animations' relatively short playing time. I found the director's commentary informative and enjoyable, the "multi-view" renderings less so. Wide-screen aficionados will be happy to see every piece done in their format as well as full-screen - redone, really, so that each version work properly as a visual composition. These enjoyable shorts have a place in any collection of animations or computer graphics, but I'm sure they'll appeal to far wider audiences than just those.
-- wiredweird
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Summary: Great show but poor render quality
Comment: This DVD is outstanding, no doubt about it. These guys are geniuses! My only complaint (and reason for the 3-star rating) has to do with the DVD quality. If you play it in big screen (LCD 40" or more) with 720p or better, the DVD looks pixelated. Not good quality. Just 853 X 480 pixels! -Even the demo they let you download for free at their website has better image quality than the DVD. I got the demo and was very expectant that the DVD had a better quality but it dissapointed me. They should release a blue-ray version or something. I love all the extras they included, including both full screen and wide screen versions, angles and lots of material of the production process which is fascinating. However, they packed too much material in a single DVD and had to sacrifice the size and resolution of the actual videos. I would have preferred less bonus materials and better quality videos.
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