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About Animusic

What is Animusic?

Animusic is computer animated music – It's unique, captivating, and not that infrequently causes jaws to drop.


You'll experience Animusic as individual animations that are typically about 4 to 5 minutes long. They're collected together to form a "visual album", and sold as a DVD (or VHS).
Our first release features 7 distinct music animations. You could say it's like a record album where you get to see the music.


The animations are created with computers utilizing a process similar to that of movies like Shrek and Finding Nemo (although we add our own "secret sauce" that allows musical instruments to magically animate themselves).


Each animation features inventive instruments playing music in different settings. Although people sometimes think they are viewing actual instruments (a testament to the detail work and care put into each piece) alas, it's all digital and can only be seen on a screen.


Animusic isn't targeted to any particular age group or gender, and it's great to see that so many different types of people enjoy watching the animations; teens, toddlers, grandparents, engineers, musicians, animation fans . . . it appeals to a very broad spectrum.


  

History

Dave Crognale (left), and Wayne Lytle

Animusic's founder Wayne Lytle began to envision  algorithmically synchronizing music and animation almost 20 years ago – in 1982. It wasn't until 1989 that he first began experimenting with music-driven computer animation. His first full multi-instrument music animation "More Bells and Whistles" premiered in the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 1990. It has since won awards and been shown in various contexts world-wide. In 1991 Lytle received an award from IBM for his early work in music animation.
In 1995 Lytle brought computer artist David Crognale on board to produce a music animation for a commercial client. Animusic produced a 5-minute stereoscopic music animation for VRex, a manufacturer of stereoscopic glasses and projectors. The award-winning stereoscopic version was entitled "Concerto in 3D", while the regular version was called "Beyond the Walls".
 
In 1998 Lytle and Crognale began production on a full 3D computer graphics music animation video album which was released in December 2001. All music and instrument design is original.
 
 

 

 


Contact

Web Site:
www.animusic.com

Mailing address:
Animusic P.O. Box 162107 Austin, TX 78716
 
Email: info@animusic.com

Company Contacts:
Wayne Lytle: Director
Jeff Garrard: Media and Marketing
Dave Crognale: Digital Artist
Greg Flores: Business Development


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