Those of you at the meetup last Wendesday know that we have a project ahead of us. If you weren’t there, here’s the run down.

We were talking about this video from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. The basic premise is that the class took a song by AGF titled “Pianos,” broke it off into pieces, and each student  animated that section of the song according to the extensive requirements you can see in the Vimeo description.

We all thought it looked like a pretty fun project, so we’re doing something similar. John Wangles was kind enough to lend us use of his track “#T.”

#T by JAwS

Here’s what we’ll be doing:

1. Comment on this post and “officially” sign up to be part of this project. We’ll need to know how many people are planning on contributing in order to break the song up. Let’s make Friday May 28th Wednesday June 16th the deadline.
2. We’ll come up with some theme or constraints to make sure we’re all on the same page. So feel free to make suggestions. We’ll put up a poll on the blog to see what wins out by popular vote.
3. Once we have our list of people, we’ll break up the song and randomly assign sections. We’ll post the list along with contact info so you can talk to whomever is before and after you. Hopefully this will help smooth over transitions and make a more cohesive piece.

We’ll also come up with some sort of deadline & format requirements for final renders (which will more than likely be 16:9). But beyond that and the theme we end up choosing, it’s entirely open. 3D, 2.5D, 2D, cell-animation, stop-motion… the method doesn’t matter.

So sign up and suggest themes/constraints/color palettes/whatever in the comments. Lets get this going!

We had a great time at the December meetup. Thanks to all those who came out. It was a great way to get to know other motion designers in the area. We want to keep things informal at these meetups, but we hope to have a slightly (only slightly) more focused discussion this time around. The topic is still to be decided, but chances are we’ll be viewing some work (both our own and others) so bring something to show. If you’re on Vimeo, you should post videos to our group. We’ll be using that as a sort of collection basket for videos to discuss at meetups and other events.

Got an idea for what do discuss? Leave a note in the comments.

We’ll post more details to the site as we figure them out. As with everything in life, it’s a work in progress…

So what are you waiting for? Join the group!