JENNIFER WOLFE

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A Mesmerizing Homage to Visual Music: SIGGRAPH Asia Best in Show Winner ‘L’oiseau Qui Danse’ | ANIMATIONWorld

  • By Jennifer Wolfe
  • December 10th, 2018
‘L'oiseau qui danse,’ by Jean-Marie Marbach, winner of Best in Show at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Computer Animation Festival.
‘L’oiseau qui danse,’ by Jean-Marie Marbach, winner of Best in Show at SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Computer Animation Festival.

AnimationWorld Magazine — December 10, 2018
A Mesmerizing Homage to Visual Music: SIGGRAPH Asia Best in Show Winner ‘L’oiseau Qui Danse’

Independent VFX artist and director Jean-Marie Marbach received the Best in Show award at the 2018 SIGGRAPH Asia Conference for his gorgeous abstract music video, “L’oiseau qui danse,” for Canadian electronic artists Tennyson.

Featuring the journey of an origami bird inside a mysterious field of light, the video was created as an homage to the abstract animation style of Visual Music, taking on an aesthetic inspired by the work of Walter Ruttman and Oskar Fischiner but using modern tools.

It was made entirely using Adobe After Effects and Red Giant’s Trapcode Suite, the popular plugins for motion graphics and custom AE scripting. Except for the origami bird, which was created in After Effects from 2D layers rigged together in 3D space, all the elements were created using Trapcode Suite’s Particular, Form and Mir particle generators. Automated functions related to particles behavior were achieved with custom expressions and scripts written by Dan Ebberts.

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Jennifer Wolfe

A Los Angeles-based content producer and strategist with 15+ years of experience in Media & Entertainment, I bring a broad-scope knowledge of M&E business and technologies spanning visual storytelling, creative post production, and digital content creation and delivery. Fluent across digital publishing platforms, including development and back-end management, I am highly skilled at translating technical workflows into narratives that showcase product features and capabilities.