Steel Life, experimental short film

[Davidxt]

Great effects and music! You definitely have an eye for the details.

I'm looking forward to your full short. :)

[EightHoursD]

Amazing work man, i cant belive thats a tesis, loved the abstract feelling on it and the music its just incredible, very touching work you have here.

[djart73]

Fantastic!!! :)

[FattyGrissle]

That was BEAUTIFUL... to say the least..
The combination of the stunning visuals combined with the music makes for a very wonderful experience. I cant wait to see more.
Amazing work.

[zoo-prod]

Nice one !
Some great effects in there and nice editing.
Keep up the good work !

[kolikotron]

really wauh!

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great work!
Plugged.
Tell us a bit about the production.

-R

[firstsingle]

Great work. Love the music also.

[Jozvex]

Amazing work! An impressive amount of effort!

:)

[depleteD]

Whoa, that made no sense....but it didnt need to cause it was awesome.

[java]

Wow! That is truly beautiful.

[xiaoyi]

that's so beautiful!!!awsome work.

[jhasse]

superr, superr:applause: 10 stars

[Mathias]

that was amazing.. really great work man!

/Mathias

[grantmoore3d]

That was a really great and moving piece of art... amazing!

[flashgordy]

beautiful, and music also


regards

[Ront]

I loved your demoreel from 2007 and I thought that was great, but WOW! This just blew me away! The music played alongside perfectly. Thanks for making this.

[tmr232]

Wow! This was simply beatiful. Nothing else to say.

[yoroba]

My God, this is stunning. Beautiful short! Great work!

[asomma]

Thank you for letting me experience that one. I almost cried.

[Mirso]

this is marvelous:applause:, one of the best things seen here

[Izuael]

That was beautiful, a bit random but pure eye candy!
Was the music made especially for this? It fits so well. :)

[robodesign]

Hello!

Visually, it's stunning. Congratulations!

As one said, it seems to make no sense. Can you enlight us? What's supposed to say?

[Mathieuuuu]

Hi,

thanks for the compliments on the movie and particulary the ones on the music I've composed. It's a great joy knowing that our work is so well received by such experienced people as you guys. I prefer that Mathieu answer your questions on the meaning of the movie, but if you have any question or commentary on the soundtrack, I'ld be very happy to answer it.

[Chokmah]

Hello Mathieu-gg,

Great piece here.
I once heard about a theory that's speak about the intricately link between picture and music.
Your work here seems to prove it !

You can be proud of your work .

I think we don't need to find a sense in it, but only emotion .

Congrats :thumbsup: 5*

[Piddu]

Very rarely a short has given me emotions like this one. The music is wonderful, the photography is awesome, the direction is amazing. The CG is more than tremendous.
You know something.
Thanks for sharing this with us.

Daniele

[valentine]

Pure beauty!

[acb12]

wow rly breathtaking @_@ amazing job :love: ....im still stunned @_@

[irwit]

One of the most impressive pieces of films Ive ever seen. Inspiring, technically impressive, a flawless piece of work. Any chance of a HD download ?

[phoenix]

I am speechless at the beauty and the whole elegance of the reel man. its really amazing work.



regards

[Baltasound]

Whoa, that made no sense....but it didnt need to cause it was awesome.

This! Great job.

[Stryker]

Great, posted here: http://www.3dm3.com/video/2009/04/03/steel-life/

[Militza]

Stunning video. Ethereal. As well as music! Geez, I got goose bumps. :) 5/5 stars without any doubt.

keep up the great work!

[Finotti]

Congratulations.

It's a great state of art. Perfect concept, catching the feeling of semiology aspects. Sense of abstraction. Combine perfectly images and music. Touch of inspiration. By the way, the "Paris short cuts" is very poetic piece too! The world need some directors like you. With sense of estethic and passion for the art.

Keep the Line. Cheers

[BlackHwk4]

Cool short film. The effects and music went well together.

[p0rcupine]

Wow. Absolutely amazing. Bravo!!!

[arkangel-fx]

Just Awesome! Very very touching. The music is beautyfull!
5 Stars!

[ChewyPixels]

Stunning work! :eek:

I second the request for an HD download! It would be a nice piece to keep in the inspiration folder. :)

[bearfoot]

wow cool stuff..

technically its great to look at.. but its missing cohesion and a story line..
even abstract works can tell a story.. it leaves me feeling that it was just a random
set of 3d works edited together..excellently produced 3d works,

but still i think with some solid narrative it could be amazing..

thanks
n

[Intervain]

wow cool stuff..

technically its great to look at.. but its missing cohesion and a story line..
even abstract works can tell a story.. it leaves me feeling that it was just a random
set of 3d works edited together..excellently produced 3d works,

but still i think with some solid narrative it could be amazing..

thanks
n

quoted for agreement... I really enjoyed the music though and the fx looked great

[Mathorne]

Very enjoyable!

Would it be possible to get hold of the music? It's very moving.

[vlad74]

wow cool stuff..

technically its great to look at.. but its missing cohesion and a story line..
even abstract works can tell a story.. it leaves me feeling that it was just a random
set of 3d works edited together..excellently produced 3d works,

but still i think with some solid narrative it could be amazing..

thanks
n

Agrred.

The other thing - the video is great the music also but somehow they didnt go together for me.
It is just my personal preference. Otherwise *****

[sestanis]

Well done! Bravo :applause:

[mindsample]

BRAVO!!

Really touched me, beautiful work!

[PhilipR]

Awesome man. Solid Work :thumbsup:

[BlenderFan]

Words fail me. It's one of the most moving works I've ever seen.

[Brighton]

I am in awe of how amazing that was.

Truly inspiring.

[Konarovic]

good piece of work, it's very different from what we found on internet. Very good expression and sense of narration.

Big up rastafarai ^^

bonne continuation

[kiaran]

Very nice visuals. I like what it made me think about.

[LukeZ]

im just thunderstruck... beautiful composition and miusic !
greate work !

[kelgy]

Captivating visuals and music.
Not thinking of the experimental tag I thought it would be something with that steel orb exploring various phenomenon, but I dont know how it could end so I concur with the experimental approach. :)

Its psychedelic in a cg "2001 Space Odyssey" kind of way.

[victorribeiro]

Man, it's just beautiful... The music, the animation... You made some very nice landscapes.

You know what? I bookmarked it, so I can see it any time.

Looking forward to see more of you work.

=)

[A-OC]

Holy freak!!! I can only imagine how you pulled some of the shots! Very very deep artistic sence. Experimental has always been one of my least favorite style but this WOW!! We can tell your vast knowledge of Maya too!

Props to the orchestra, it adds so much to this master piece.

[A-OC]

I think the credits are missing: All CG elements by.....

[MGue]

Amazing postproduction job and great photography.

Congratulations.

[folheto]

Wow... that's so.. incredible.. just wow

[BattlemasterXP]

One or two years ago I downloaded your demoreel '07,
so many of the shown stuff isn't new to me, but it doesn't give away the fact,
that this piece is just stunning.
In every artwork of this reel I feel the mood, strong and beautiful,
I simply love it!

Thanks for sharing Mathieu!

[Gaudy]

This is just EPIC

amazing work mathew , it reminds me of that movie Baraka

your camera movements are impressive as your attention for detail.

the water close ups where u see the water flowing is outstanding , and the grass shot is very emotive.

Gives the feeling of that something is going to happen.

great feeling TY

[errantspark]

This is absolutely phenomenal.

[hoskins78]

Wonderful work! Amazing visual quality throughout :)

[brasco]

Made me smile :)

Great music, really well put together!

Congrats :wavey:

[Mathieuuuu]

Thanks again for all these kind words. I'm very proud that Mathieu asked me to compose the score of Steel Life. It was a hard task for me cause of the visual beauty of the film and the importance he gaves to the music : composing something which wouldn't be as good as what the film needed petrified me. And during all this process (composing the first sketchs, realising the mock up, organizing the session...) , Mathieu was very supportive and understanding. I'll never thank him enough for that !

Recording the music with the orchestra was a great joy, and Mathieu took some superb shots of this recording session ! The musicians and the sound engineers were wonderful cause they spent so much time for free on this project. It was just incredible for Mathieu and me.

Working on Steel Life was a fantastic journey and your compliments are a nice reward.

[Raul-Reznek]

beautiful stuff, great sense for color and sound/image

[Spc]

Simply breathtaking.

:D

[MAN0]

this is soooo good. sound, colours, compositing..the cuts...everything looks perfect and professional.

amazing job!

[KayPoprawe]

Speechless! Amazing one man show!

[artmaknev]

Wow incredible work!
I would really love to see you expand on the idea of nature taking over the city, you had just a glimpse, maybe in your future work :)

[aLoneCuzzo]

the music was really nice as well... great job

[jdrouse]

this really is something special

[foxco]

Hard work always pays off. Fantastic Visual Effects. Hope to see more of your work around here!

Cheers

[JuGGerNauTT]

Congratulations on your work Mathieu it was an amazing jurney you took us with your images and music. All the best for the future :beer:

[mathieu-gg]

Thanks to all of you !

It's a pleasure to read all this comments ! During all the production, we managed to bring a new visual and musical experience to audience, and I am glad you noticed it.

Thanks again :thumbsup:


Mathieu

[bt3d]

Fantastic work!!! Absolutely great images. Congratulations!

[ziomalbanan]

AMAZING WORK!!! GREAT JOB! beautiful effect and music... PERFECT!:applause::thumbsup:

[LoneFalcon]

its a fantastic piece of work, music was beautiful

[leonlabyk]

Beautiful and inspirational piece of animation and music.
5*

[isaak]

Awesome!, congrats for this amazing piece!

[dhnerurkar]

Wow Mathieu that was so beautiful and such fluid ;) work.

[BobMassurek]

GREAT!! love this peace of art ;)

It's something like CG "Baraka (http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2012058112/tt0103767)" for me!

[tonypolygoni]

Hi Mathieu, hi everyone..

After reading through 6 pages of "awesome" I kind of feel its my duty to add a different point to this conversation.

It is a TD-reel with well produced sound. Thats all it is..there is no directing and no opinion, no soul..there is no abstraction, there is nothing...it's a reel. Using all the gadgets out there doesn't make a film.

Fin

[wiz4rd]

It is a TD-reel with well produced sound. Thats all it is..there is no directing and no opinion, no soul..there is no abstraction, there is nothing...it's a reel. Using all the gadgets out there doesn't make a film.
Well, maybe it's not a film. But most recently, whilst I was surfing the internet, I stumbled over a fairly new concept, in comparison to the rather old one of film: I think it was called "art"?
They said that this art-thingy was a "process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions." Furthermore they said, that "[t]he most common usage of the word 'art', [...] is understood to denote skill used to produce an aesthetic result."[link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art). Now, I haven't thought this concept all the way through, but we might be up to something here. Don't you think?


@ Mathieu, both of you:
I think you did a really great job on that short! The timing of the imagery and the music was perfect. And by combining both, the visual and the acoustical impressions, you really achieved that "WOW" effect.
Can't wait to see more colabs from the two of you. :)

Cheers!

[tonypolygoni]

oh yes..i totally forgot..art...of course.
First of all, art is relative. Joseph Beuys puts some butter in a corner and maybe just maybe if some ppl with influence call it art, all the lemmings are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Or kneel down in front of the artist and praise him. And that is the point. I think art is so relative..you can't really have a discussion about it. So let's stick to the facts.

This is not art. It is a reel. How do the shots appeal to you emotionally? Do you cry when you see Real Flow simulations? Do you get goose bumps when somebody uses a downloadable FG/Radiosity test model of a building for one of his "so totally meaningful shots"?..Maya fluids are so unbelievablely unique they let you think about the meaning of life and planting a tree? The unbelievablely tricky and totally new concept of something running forward...and then, holy crap....backwards again....blows your mind? Oh my god...there is a thing coming down to the earth, and suddenly there is some stuff flowing into a glass tube, and then there is the empire state building with tentacles...of course this is totally connected to the abstract energy explosion..and yes, everybody thought that the metal shaded flower fills up the gaps and tells you...hoho..what the real deal is.

No, there is art out there but this is not it. I appreciate this piece for its technical value. Its very well made. Props to them and the effort they put in it..Must have taken a long time. But please please don't say this is art..it would make me gag...

oh and thanks for the wikipedia definition of art....that's the spirit!

[BobMassurek]

Please tonypolygoni, show us your reel, pleaaase!!!
I'm begging you, pleaseee!!! :scream:

[Disco-Dave]

@ tony, temper, temper! Interestingly, right after complaining about "ppl with influence" telling everybody what to call art you posited your own self as an authority on what art is. What a way to shoot yourself in the foot.

Then you say "art is relative" and after that you're adamant that this isn't art...

And on top of all you want to stick to the facts but all you spew is sarcasm...

You must be some kind of artist yourself.

I can agree that there is a lot of "awesome, dude" going on on these boards and that this work of ART leaves something to be desired (but it's down to my own taste), but yes, realflow, as commonplace as it nowadays is, CAN sometimes "blow your mind". And a person who can achieve that, whatever the means, should be rightfully called an artist.

[mijail]

Amazing!! enjoyment each second the visual effects that you make, the texture of the skyscraper was the unique thing that needs improvements, but is valid by being a test

Congratulations

[MarekGajowski1986]

I have one technical question. I've watched your making of on vimeo and I'm still not sure how did you do those wonderful shiny strokes (about 2:55 of making of). Is this particleflow with texture? Or something else? During 4 last days I'm trying to create something similar to this, and I'm jumping from Afterburn, FumeFx, RealFlow and regular pflow and I can't achieve that amazing results as yours....

[AtomAndBrad]

Is there any chance of seeing a downloadable or streaming HD encode of this? I would absolutely love to see this in nice 720 or 1080p on my nice big screen. Love the film! Such wonderful imagery and music. Great work :)

[immolatus]

Is there any chance of seeing a downloadable or streaming HD encode of this? I would absolutely love to see this in nice 720 or 1080p on my nice big screen. Love the film! Such wonderful imagery and music. Great work :)

I would like that too especially 1080p

[tonypolygoni]

Please tonypolygoni, show us your reel, pleaaase!!!
I'm begging you, pleaseee!!! :scream:
nope. your response is just to pathetic.

@disco-Dave: You've got a good point about me saying 'art is relative' and then dictating what art is and what not. The thing is, this is just my personal view, so if you re up to analyzing what I said and try to shoot back....you missed the topic because you didn't respond to what I said, you just responded to how I said it. And for the sarcasm, I didn't really start it, take a look at the 'wiz4rd' response...now thats what I call some good old fashioned sarcasm... so anyways, I sticked to the facts, actually pretty precisely, and this thing is still a reel. Rock n Roll!

[BartokDesign]

Originally Posted by tonypolygoni
It is a TD-reel with well produced sound. Thats all it is..there is no directing and no opinion, no soul..there is no abstraction, there is nothing...it's a reel. Using all the gadgets out there doesn't make a film.

Well , if you dont see it , there is no art.
But this is art for me, and amazing :bowdown:

[rowenavic]

I AM A SPAMMER

[simyevil2010]

wow wow wow amazing wonderful movie & the music he is very very nice i like it 2 much

good lcuk 4 ever :beer:

[maximco]

Very impressive!!! GREAT WORK!!!

[Mathieuuuu]

Hi everybody,

just to tell you that the music is downloadable on this page :

Mathieu CD (http://www.mathieualvado.fr/siteenanglais/Musics.html)

[Chokmah]

Great !!

Thank you a lot Mathieuuuu :applause:

I really love this music ;)

[Pasargad]

Wonderful!

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