Tamás Waliczky :: The Way [1994]

»The Way» is a 3D computer animation combined with live video. Depicted are three runners followed by a camera down a foggy street in a small German village. To visualize “The Way", I've inverted the common system of the central perspective. Instead of having the vanishing point at its usual place (i.e., on the horizon which represents endlessness), I've moved it to the closest possible position next to the viewpoint. Since the viewpoint and the vanishing point are in nearly the same place in this system, every object disappears before it reaches the viewer. The further an object is from the viewer, the larger it appears. The closer an object is, the smaller.
- Tamás Waliczky -

Type of Work
Computer animation
2:41 min., color, sound, on Laserdisk / BetaCam SP

Credits
· Concept: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi
· Animation: Tamás Waliczky
· Actor and music: Manfred Hauffen
· Application software: Chris Dodge, Sebastian Egner, Lutz Kettner
· Camera: Uwe Teske, Stefan Joachim
Production: ZKM | Institute for Visual Media, 1994.

Hardware
Silicon Graphics Indigo Elan
Macintosh Quadra

Software
Softimage
Adobe Photoshop
custom software by Chris Dodge and Sebastian Egner

ZKM-department
· Institute for Visual Media

Presentations [selected]
Premiere: »La Métafort«, Aubervilliers [F], 1994.

Recommended Links
· Homepage of Tamás Waliczky

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