ARIA
Aria is an experimental animated short film created for the song written by Toronto cinematic rock band, 5th PROJEKT. The central existential theme of Aria revolves around its pivotal refrain, ‘Do we have permission to land?’
A storyboard was created planning for the combination of collaged photography, minimal 3D animation, and 2D rotoscoped animation. Green screen footage of the band was filmed. An algorithm was trained/programmed over the period of a week to rotoscope, illustrate, and animate the footage in a distinct psychedelic style. Once the palette, look, and feel was established, the footage was rendered in less than a day. The generative animation for the lightship was created using code to link the sonic frequencies of the song itself to the evolving graphical parameters of the craft’s shape. Weeks of editing, titles, colour balancing, and additional post-production followed. All of this to tell a multi-dimensional story about contact with higher consciousness.