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Musical performance animation, inspired by Animusic (youtu.be)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I felt inspired by animusic animations and decided to try to do it myself.

I made the song only using the default plugins from LMMS. I transformed it to MIDI using this converter.

I then converted MIDI to a JSON that contains only what I need using a program in my Github repo (see below). And I import this generated JSON into blender animations using an extension (same Github repo).

Once I have the animations, I used drivers to get the animated values inside geometry nodes to launch and simulate the balls, vibrate the xylophone/marimba, oscillate bass strings and scale trumpets. The hi-hat, snare, drumstick and trombone were animated through drivers in properties GUI.

Rendered with cycles, all materials are the default material, I just changed color, metallic and roughness values, as I decided I didn't want to spend more time into this.

Source for MIDI to JSON converter and blender extension: https://github.com/alansartorio/Music3DAnimation (disclaimer: not documented)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I didn't know they released a demo like that. My first idea was to make a program to play it using a game engine (bevy), but I switched to blender because I didn't need it to be real time.