Re-creation of DDR visualizations product

I've been working on this ever since October 17th.

I want to make as many visualizations as possible since I always liked them...

So far I have around 40 out of a whopping 700.

Here's a picture of one I making RIGHT NOW (as of 03:59:10 UTC) ...



Trust me, it will look MUCH better in the movie file.

So you'll be doing ALL of the visuals?
Would you mind posting a few more screenshots?

That's my goal, but there might not be some I can re-create.


I'll give you a video instead.



It's hosted on my DDR channel, SammyMusicVideos. (My current main is SammyShinx formerly BlockyCuzco but got banned for CartoonNetwork copyright)

And now I know where your avatar came from. I thought it looked a little familiar.

If you're really going to re-create official DDR visualizations in HD, then you are awesome.

This one is an example on what I cannot make. It looks hard...




Yeah.

I have a show called "Anthropomorphic Madness" where 24 inanimate objects comete for $10,000,000, and I decided to use the limbs and face I use for the characters on the cube. It's my favorite visualization, BTW.

I accidentally put an 'S' on "visualization" the first time I posted this.

Finished product;

Just keep practicing, i'm sure you'll get it :D

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Here's the full list of ones I finished. (Ones I made myself like Speedometers count)



Row 1; Pink Bubbles (or Tunnel1), Blue Eggs (or Eggs2), Colorful Cubes (or Cube3), Disco (or Disco4), Green Geometry (or Geometry1), Pink Crosses (or Cross2), Hexagon Tunnel

Lol. Tunnel1, Eggs2, Cube3, and Disco4 have a pattern; They have a number at their end and when put in the order shown, the numbers go in numerical order from one to four.

Row 2; CuzKlo Spin, Blue Jumping Pills (or Pills1), Twirling Boy 1 (Part 1 of Boy5), Colorful Bracelets (or Bracelet1), Pentagon Tunnel (or Pentagon1), Diamond Tunnel (or Tunnel7), Circle Tunnel (My own version of Circle11 to have the circles match the style of Square Tunnel instead of Triangle Tunnel as seen in the arcade), Square Tunnel (or Square1)

Row 3; Blue Amoeba (or Amoeba1), Vermillion Jumping Pills (or Pills2, this is basically just Pills1 with hue adjusted and zoomed in), Spinning Lights* (or Light7) Spinning Green Wheels (Or Wheel7), Spinning Green Wheels A (fan-made version of Spinning Green Wheels where the camera zooms out the system of the wheels revealing around 200 and they are all behind the main 5 wheels), Grey Techno Rings (or Ring6), Pink Starbox* (or Star)

* Spinning Lights and Pink Starbox are glitched. Pink Starbox might not be able to be fixed but Spinning Lights might. (lolrhyme)

Row 4; Rotating Kaleidoscope Eggs (or Kaliedoscope14), Rotating Kaleidoscope Cylinders (or Kaliedoscope11), Rotating Kaleidoscope Cubes (or Kaliedoscope12), Rotating Kaleidoscope Rings (or Kaliedoscope13), Bluey Pills (or Pills3), Triangle Tunnel (or Tunnel6), Triangle Tunnel A, B, and C (A shows the camera panning to the other side of the tunnel. B shows the result. It looks like the original backwards, but the color scheme is the same. C shows the camera spinning and zooming to the end of the tunnel, then flopping and goes back to the original view.

Row 5; Marble Loop, Colorful Ribbon (Or Ribbon2), Pumping Triangle Tunnel (or Tunnel4), Speedometers, Weird Discoing Machine (or Disco1), Colorful Tunnel (or Tunnel5), Green Viruses (or Virus1)

Row 6; Weird...tunnel...thingy (Or Tunnel14, the newest addition as of November 19 2012), Yellow Flying Stars (Or Star1), Blue Smokey Tunnel (Or Smoke1), Colorful Light Tunnel (or Tunnel9), Heart Ring (or Heart1), Colorful Tire (or Wheel3)

Row 7; Blooming Bubbles (or Bubble2), Pink Amoeba (or Amoeba2), Rotating Lines (or Rotation5), Star Tunnel, Rotating Kaleidoscope Cylinders Explode (fan-made version of Rotating Kaleidoscope Cylinders, specifically for "DROP OUT FROM NONSTOP MEGAMIX" to play on the bomb sound effect), Blue Bars (or Stairs1), and finally, Green Lens (or Lens1, I almost forgot this visualization)

And that's it. I have some works in progresses, but I'll list them later.

Fact; The first EVER visualization I re-created was Pentagon Tunnel. (The REAL first, though, was "Ring12" but I lost the file)

Alright, here's one I'm making.



It's "Yellow Kaleidoscope", A.K.A Kaleidoscope3.avi. I experimented with it along with Ring13, Kaleidoscope8, and Cube5, and have the motivation to make it.

So far, I got the kaleidoscope down (it doesn't have the swirl things on the 3D cylinder thingamabobs) now all that's left is the background...

Finished the visualization. That makes 52 total.

Let's see if I can't do "Rotation1.avi"...

I did. That was easy.

(Exports)



Are you serious? Let me try that again.

(Opens ASP7 up, opens "Pink Rotating Rolls", exports, ASP7 crashes, tries again, crashes, tries again, crashes)

(Smashes face against keyboard)

Oh my god... Are you serious?! I can't render it! -___-; And it was so easy! Sigh...

Let's try another one.



This one looks worth a try.

And I finished it, in less than around 40 minutes, with the exporting correct. (It took two tries to get it right because the masking on the stars between the golden ones screwed up on the first try)

Here's one I'm making.





Once you figure out the style, the visualization seems like a walk in the park. I thought I'd never make it, but I succeeded.

I also made Spiral3.avi, with was the EASIEST one ever as it turns out. I made it in like 8 minutes.



It's glitched. -___-; Oh well...

I'm uploading a video with me making Disco2.avi so you can see how I do the magic.

Fact; Vermillion Pills ISN'T made yet, because I have to make Pink Bubbles, Blue Eggs, and Blue Jumping Pills exported in PNG images (that's 240 frames (80 frames each)). Every time I try to export them as a movie file, this comes up.

Let's see... Why don't we export this cheerful visualization? (Eggs2) :3

(Exports, and...?)





It's annoying. Those are just three out of 4. The other is Pink Rotating Rolls, which crashes entirely.

These three are mainly caused due to all of them having so many layers with the Lathe option from the 3 3D conversion types in Anime Studio. (AS is meant to be a 2D program but I can make 3D stuff with it and make 2D stuff look 3D)

Alright, here's one I'm making.



It's Disco3.avi. The first thing that comes to mind in this visualization is FREAK OUT.

So far, I have half of the Speaker done. I have to add those horn thingamabobs to the speaker and then make it move like the actual visualization.

Here's the finished result.



I have to make the other stuff now, but the speakers disco perfectly.

... Why do I feel like there's something funny about one of them, though?

The easter egg is that xXMokou98Xx's username is printed on the left speaker in the image.

Color me impressed. Some of these are dead on.

Are you making these in widescreen?

Yes. I am.

Sweet. Planning on just doing a random movies collection, and/or making dedicated videos to sync with the songs/simfiles that are featured in mixes with these?

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I don't plan on using these for DDRMAX4, yet I use "Circle Tunnel" since the official beware one isn't correct. But all others will be used for home use.

do you really need to quote the whole thing

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It was an accident.

I made a test with the DDR visualizations.

I rendered it with 60fps, since they are some that goes as a faster speed than they usually are and they will look Blocky when rendered in 30.

The problem? Being in 1080p and 60 fps, the HD file is 100 MB. (Almost an entire 1/10th gigabyte! I think.)

I compressed it and it's 35 MB, but the cons are that the video looks like shit.

Either way, they both go at 60 frames.

You can download them here;

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?cxci451vnyz4l8f LQ, 33 MB

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?2fo2fkgenqds52w HQ, 97 MB

From what I've seen, the videos here are in the ranges of 15~30 MBs (they are one song long!) and they doesn't really look that bad. Granted, they're 320x240 though.

Also a GB is 1000 MB.

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Download the official (not quite HD) CuzcotheBlocky (or BlockyCuzco NOT (CuzcyThe)Blockoor SammyShinx) visualizations for Abyss here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8nyc2fb6tn562dr

How it works; The visualizations are 22 MB. After the download finishes, download a copy of Abyss here (http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/viewsimfile.php?simfileid=613) and then drop down the visualizations. After that, open BGCHANGES.txt and copy the BGCHANGES into the SM. After that, they should appear in StepMania. Stepmania is unable to open HD visualizations, though, so the frame size of each has been reduced to 800 x 450 (maintaining the 1920x1080 ratio).

Anyway, here's an impossible visualization.



Because the 3D inflate option is crap (explaining Kaliedoscope13.avi's sloppiness) and 3d conversion ignores shape effects, it will take forever to make Kaliedoscope8.avi. Those triangles on the eggs that rotate are the main problem. I'll have to carefully bend the parts and then copy and paste them so many times. Even without the triangles on the eggs, the visualization looks....dull. And no, we don't want that. I at least managed to get Kaliedoscope3's background and the lack of pattern on the cylinders aren't noticeable.

So that's 2 impossible visualizations for me. The other is Grassy Tunnel or Tunnel2.avi. ... Say, though, maybe the masking feature might help me as long as the base is black? (Because a almost complete transparent masking base impacts the pattern inserted on it.)

I know you would probably not hear my suggestion, but have you considered moving away from doing visualizations and to doing movies instead? Doing this looks like someone trying to still make games for Atari 2600. No offense.

He just wanted to capture DDRMAX/MAX2's feel, let him try.

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Good job! Do you plan to recreate videos from EXTREME also?

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I love everything about this thread. You are AMAZING.

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I Wiki'd this just to make sure.

Holy crap, I've been saying gigabyte and gibibyte the wrong way round ALL MY DAMN LIFE.

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