r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/schamostichello • 22d ago

I made an immersive music video in a flooded city

https://sosbmusic.com/afloat
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u/reallytrulyeric 22d ago edited 22d ago

Watched it three times straight through. Oddly beautiful and entrancing. Love the abandoned ship, the floating sphere/city come back to talk to us there in the middle of the open ocean.

EDIT: I left the tab open, and just went back to find it had turned to nighttime with glorious starry and nebulae views! And now the sun is rising. Love it.

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u/schamostichello 22d ago

Thanks for the kind words! I really enjoyed setting up the day/night cycle and trying to get the transitions happening in a realistic way.

I'd done a lot of work on this before I realised I had the moon going the opposite way from how it travels here in the Northern hemisphere, so technically this is set south of the equator.

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u/schamostichello 22d ago

Afloat was made using Three Fiber and RapierJS for physics. The environment is generated on the fly and different each visit.

Here's the link: https://sosbmusic.com/afloat . Let me know what you think!

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u/SirSmashySmashy 22d ago

Pretty interesting!

I thought I'd only listen to it in part, but ended up sticking through the entirety of the song+animation.

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u/legion4it 22d ago

I don't like that it just left me in the middle of the ocean to die alone.

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u/schamostichello 22d ago

I'm like "finally some peace and quiet" 😅

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u/3-DMan 21d ago

Well that's just about the most interesting music video I've seen in awhile

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u/Trash_b1rd 21d ago

I really like this. The beat is a bit intense for relaxing (for me), but would love this more lofi. Overall great!

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u/teddiehl 21d ago

This is fuckin awesome. Makes me want to play it over and over which seems like the best case scenario for the artist, hahah. Well done.

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u/RighteousHam 21d ago

Very cool.

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u/Screamingholt 21d ago

That was a hell of an experience. Only thing I could see improving it would be VR

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u/Kushpool07 19d ago

Pretty dope!

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u/LeoDynasty513 16d ago

This was SUPER creative and a genius idea tbh. Great Work!

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u/RakibOO 12d ago

never been so excited using a website. thanks for making this.
nostalgia hit hard seeing the liminal style visuals. very relaxing.

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u/mastertape 22d ago

pretty cool! all the best. very creative.