Fun fact: The guy who created this, Wayne Lytle, wrote custom software that allows you to rig up the 3D instruments and plug in notation in the form of a MIDI file. The instruments would then animate themselves according to the notes written in the file. That means every note is 100% accurate and the instruments are not being animated to the music, but rather the music is animating the instruments.
@Meme_Cave unfortunately it is also told that he is a perfectionist and could not meet his own high standards. At one point he suggested that he would make the software available for people willing to pay for it but never actually released it because it didn't match what he wanted it to. Maybe someday someone could work to bring that project out of the grave 😔
All l want to know is, is it live or animated? l've been watching this for years. The first description l read was that it was mostly made out of Deer John parts, so please, someone, enlighten me!
I remember stuff like this. IMAGINE...all the hours of design...all the hours of encoding the animation. Just the CONCEPT...the layout...the level of imagination it took to do something like this...WOW !!!
@@Maximum_W All the old API calls are still there for compatibility. If I can run the original unreal tournament on my computer, you should be able to run this tech demo.
Elementary school? I was in high school when this originally came out. I remember buying my old ATi Radeon 9800XT video card for OG Far Cry and this came as a demo with the GPU driver disc. I am pretty sure I wore that disc out watching this so many times.
Every now and again, animusic pops back into my head and seeing it look so clear and clean is truly like seeing it again for the first time in kindergarten music class, it's wonderful!
Whoever did this will forever be a legend. This is pioneering 3D physics and the fact every single hit and note follows the pattern 100% perfectly and realistically is beyond unreal. Honestly? I think one day this will remembered as one of the greatest creations of our time. This is the Mona Lisa of 3D animation. Edit : the music itself is remarkably interesting as well!
Even better, it's procedural animation driven by a midi file. You feed it a different song, and it'll play it. Like, there's a note at X time, so I need to start the animation Y seconds ago and does the whole song like that. Of course camera and lighting needs to be redone. They made a Pipe Dream 2 to demonstrate all this.
Could have AI upscaled the original DVDs. Or used a modified version of the demo that came out for the ATI 9700pro. You could change resolutions in the config file up to a certain point.
@@Spazilton1 no, i dont think ai could upscale motion blur, that doesn't make much sense for it's progress so far, and also im not entirely sure if that ai was meant for CGI or real life, because it isn't really meant just to be messed around with. edit: nvm lmao
Amazing as it was several years ago when I first heard it. I bought the music then and am still amazed!! I am a great-grandmother with 7 grands. I share unusual music with the parents to share with the young ones. I have discovered TH-cam and love it!!!
This is one of the best things ive ever randomly stumbled upon on YT. Not only did it bring back a deep memory of the original Animusic, i'm beyond impressed at how accurately you recreated the animation AND musical arrangement style of the original.
What i really love aside from the music is the specific visual of the scuff marks where the marbles have hit the percussion instruments. They only hit one place and its marked like that permanently
That's how u know the song is "complete;" I do not remember what that is actually called, but every single song (that I know of) follows that "rule" (last note of a song is the same PITCH as the first)
This is wild to see this again! I watched this over 10 years ago, back when I was first on TH-cam, but the video disappeared a long time ago! I’m glad it came up in recommended!
Wow this is throwback to my childhood! I used to love this, and upon stumbling upon it again I remember why. Something really satisfying about it, especially after finding out all the notes were actually accurately paired to the animation via MIDI. The whole thing is really impressive, especially given the age of it now
god i still remember the old video where it cut off after the pipes descend from the ceiling for like two notes. it’s stuck in my head because there was never resolution, but here there is and frankly that’s great i like that very much
Oh, the physics and the timing! I love this so much! And the tune is already great all by itself, but seeing it like this is just so wonderful. This is what I was thinking when I was bouncing a ball in a gym and then on the wall. I just thought, I wish I had more arms and balls!
Thank you, so so much! I am glad to see others haven't just forgotten animusic or aren't just still watching but are actively making content and nee stuff off of this old beautiful gem. Thank you P. S. You are really really good at this!!
This video is, I believe, from 2001. So from the ancient times, when we were downloading stuff from the internet with an ADSL modem. With internet speeds up to 2 Mb/s (but no one could afford such fast lines, mere mortals had 256 kb/s, 512 kb/s lines). And we were burning that downloaded stuff on a CD (if one was lucky to have a CD-ROM with a burner. And then we would carry the precious CD over to friends to share music, funny videos and pics with them. Alternatively, we would use an HDD in a carry tray ...risking dropping it and destroying the drive. And the precious content, that took hours and days to download.
Why is it that actors get paid millions of dollars and people who create wondrous things such as this don't. Our society has such ludicrous notions on assigning value and worth to something. This is fantastic!
I've been looking for these for years but searching animusic usually just pulled up AMVs. Thank you for not only uploading these, but upscaling them as well.
Yes! Finally HD! This is great! Also, this is still better than the real life one they tried to make. Good effort for them, but OG Animusic gets the groove going
I remember seeing this in music class as a kid and being inspired to make something like this in real life. All it took was a lot of marbles, a chair, a pool noodle, a basket and a toy drum.
I hate to be that guy, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to resemble a vibraphone. Similar to the xylophone, but made of metal, warmer sound, and more sustain. The vibraphone is a very interesting instrument so I recommend looking into them!
@@connorself Very well put. No use faking being an ignorant, just to avoid being called a smart**s. It stalls progress, which would be into the right direction: distributing knowledge. Yes it's of course a vibraphone.
Music classes, 4th grade, teacher would roll out that ancient CRT screen that had a bit of fading to it, the DVD reader sounded like a jet engine at full tilt, the speakers were old and occasionally crackled, she'd slide a DVD into the reader, it had this wacky design of what looked like some bendy sticks on it, you wouldn't think much of it until your ears were graced with the sounds and your eyes were graced with the visuals of *Animusic.*
Years when we downloaded and archived the videos on the computer :) When it was first published, many people thought it was real. It's still beautiful and now my son is watching it too.
Does anyone else notice that the beginning kinda sounds like the beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) by Pink Floyd? I notice that there's a wind sound effect, and the buildup from just one note into a full song, just like Shine On You Crazy Diamond! I find that kind of neat. Edit: Now that I think about it, Pipe Dream 2 is even more similar! The buildup is more similar to SOYCD, and pretty much everything reminds me of SOYCD! Until it gets to the glockenspiel part, from there it starts to differ a bit more. You really should listen to Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9), it is a masterpiece and definitely should be listened to more often! Parts 6-9 are better than Parts 1-5 lol
@MaximumW don't know how brash it is, but Martin mentioned it in at least one of videos. I don't recall which one and don't care enough to look for it.
i actually didn't know about Animusic until very recently through a YT Short, and i can thoroughly say with how Animusic was made was very impressive and probably one of the best works of Digital music ever made.
ok lets try to build it
damn i saw this just now today and it got pinned 22 mins ago
@@rayganthetheremind1216 that was surprisingly fast :)
@@Wintergatan_2 yes :) 👍
you havent even finished marble machine x
intel built it in 2012
Fun fact: The guy who created this, Wayne Lytle, wrote custom software that allows you to rig up the 3D instruments and plug in notation in the form of a MIDI file. The instruments would then animate themselves according to the notes written in the file. That means every note is 100% accurate and the instruments are not being animated to the music, but rather the music is animating the instruments.
That is indeed a fun fact! Thanks! It's quite impressive and beautiful.
@@stylis666 jfjdghfjfddhhdjmfhfhfjfhhfhf
@Meme_Cave nope sadly
Midis2jam2 is a similar program for those interested
@Meme_Cave unfortunately it is also told that he is a perfectionist and could not meet his own high standards. At one point he suggested that he would make the software available for people willing to pay for it but never actually released it because it didn't match what he wanted it to. Maybe someday someone could work to bring that project out of the grave 😔
As a percussionist, I can confirm that we chuck marbles at our instruments to get them to play.
Well yeah, of course we do.
...When the teacher's not looking. 🤣
As a cellist I can too confirm that we chuck marbles at our instruments as well
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🎶🎶🧜♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣Sure you do 🤣🤣🤣🤣🧜♀️🎶🎶😊🤪
All l want to know is, is it live or animated? l've been watching this for years. The first description l read was that it was mostly made out of Deer John parts, so please, someone, enlighten me!
Ah, yes...the only Marble Machine that plays music as tight as Martin wants. 😊
Has anyone run it through Tightinator to confirm it is tight? 😀
I remember stuff like this. IMAGINE...all the hours of design...all the hours of encoding the animation. Just the CONCEPT...the layout...the level of imagination it took to do something like this...WOW !!!
This was released as a graphics demo for the ATI Radeon 9700 series graphics cards. I remember watching it over and over back in the day.
it is difficult for me to imagine. I could make this run easily on my 3080Ti
@@Maximum_W All the old API calls are still there for compatibility. If I can run the original unreal tournament on my computer, you should be able to run this tech demo.
100
I thought this was real when I saw it in 2nd grade music class on a CRT monitor
I used to love catching these randomly at night on PBS back in the day
Yes, same!!
Only legends remember this from elementary school music class
On god 😂
Yeeessss
Elementary school? I was in high school when this originally came out. I remember buying my old ATi Radeon 9800XT video card for OG Far Cry and this came as a demo with the GPU driver disc. I am pretty sure I wore that disc out watching this so many times.
Let’s gooooo!!!!
Oh i remembered when i was not even in school
Every now and again, animusic pops back into my head and seeing it look so clear and clean is truly like seeing it again for the first time in kindergarten music class, it's wonderful!
A real blast from the past.
I know right
The most nostalgic music from my entire childhood
i am about to blast you gurl 😍😝🤪😘☺😚🤗🤪😘😆😁😃🥰
500th like
Yes its aqua harp is and so organ and chamber one
Whoever did this will forever be a legend. This is pioneering 3D physics and the fact every single hit and note follows the pattern 100% perfectly and realistically is beyond unreal. Honestly? I think one day this will remembered as one of the greatest creations of our time. This is the Mona Lisa of 3D animation. Edit : the music itself is remarkably interesting as well!
This was made back in the like, the 90s and was mostly forgotten lol
Even better, it's procedural animation driven by a midi file. You feed it a different song, and it'll play it. Like, there's a note at X time, so I need to start the animation Y seconds ago and does the whole song like that. Of course camera and lighting needs to be redone. They made a Pipe Dream 2 to demonstrate all this.
Somebody made this in real life too
@@AustinRiggsFire Ibm
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The animation is so realistic that initially, I truly believed it was real! The music reminds me of a Crash Bandicoot level. Sick!
It does to me too, like how when he's running?
HOW THE HECK DID YOU REMASTER THIS?!?! IT'S SO CLEAR...and so BEAUTIFUL!
Could have AI upscaled the original DVDs. Or used a modified version of the demo that came out for the ATI 9700pro. You could change resolutions in the config file up to a certain point.
@@Spazilton1 it's Topaz ai
this must be a recording from the VHS. the blu-ray release is much HIGHER quality
@@Maximum_W It's probably from the DVD (480i/p). Image is too stable and clean to be from a VHS.
@@Spazilton1 no, i dont think ai could upscale motion blur, that doesn't make much sense for it's progress so far, and also im not entirely sure if that ai was meant for CGI or real life, because it isn't really meant just to be messed around with.
edit: nvm lmao
Amazing as it was several years ago when I first heard it. I bought the music then and am still amazed!! I am a great-grandmother with 7 grands. I share unusual music with the parents to share with the young ones. I have discovered TH-cam and love it!!!
This is one of the best things ive ever randomly stumbled upon on YT. Not only did it bring back a deep memory of the original Animusic, i'm beyond impressed at how accurately you recreated the animation AND musical arrangement style of the original.
What i really love aside from the music is the specific visual of the scuff marks where the marbles have hit the percussion instruments. They only hit one place and its marked like that permanently
This takes me back, i remember this coming out when it was new, super rad to see its still around
I saw this years ago and it never ceases to amaze me. I love all of the animusic, always fascinating and just plain awesome!
Truly wonderful, which cannot be expressed in words. It's a beautiful music.
i like how at 3:16 you can hear the song end with the same bass/drum note as the song starts with, such a perfect way to loop the song on itself
That's how u know the song is "complete;" I do not remember what that is actually called, but every single song (that I know of) follows that "rule" (last note of a song is the same PITCH as the first)
🎉🎉
By far, my favorite Animusic film!
this one blows alotta nostalgia at me
Wow, I was just searching for a speaker stereo sound test... and found this wonderful art! Stunning!
This is wild to see this again! I watched this over 10 years ago, back when I was first on TH-cam, but the video disappeared a long time ago! I’m glad it came up in recommended!
What an aesthetic idea. Just mesmerized.
Wow this is throwback to my childhood! I used to love this, and upon stumbling upon it again I remember why. Something really satisfying about it, especially after finding out all the notes were actually accurately paired to the animation via MIDI. The whole thing is really impressive, especially given the age of it now
СУПЕР!!! Это можно слушать постоянно и глаз не оторвать!!!. HOW THE HECK DID YOU REMASTER THIS?!?! IT'S SO CLEAR...and so BEAUTIFUL!.
god i still remember the old video where it cut off after the pipes descend from the ceiling for like two notes. it’s stuck in my head because there was never resolution, but here there is and frankly that’s great i like that very much
I remember when these demos were new.....and they were absolutely mind blowing! And they are still rather beautiful even now.
Oh, the physics and the timing! I love this so much! And the tune is already great all by itself, but seeing it like this is just so wonderful. This is what I was thinking when I was bouncing a ball in a gym and then on the wall. I just thought, I wish I had more arms and balls!
I know the precision required to make this in real life is physically impossible, but I like imagining that it could be made.
THE MARBLE MACHINE!!!!
th-cam.com/video/E4hjx3_A-cw/w-d-xo.html
intel could do it with pentium 2 duo equipment in reality
m.th-cam.com/video/3FX5IfR4KfU/w-d-xo.html
*Intel has entered the chat*
Thanks for bringing this back. Fond memories of techtv eyedrops.
I love the animusic. So relaxing and intriguing.
I can't believe I found it. I thought this was something I imagined in a fever dream. I had the tune stuck in my head for months
Amazing
you imagined a pipe dream
Thank you, so so much! I am glad to see others haven't just forgotten animusic or aren't just still watching but are actively making content and nee stuff off of this old beautiful gem. Thank you
P. S. You are really really good at this!!
Same here
This is awesome. Love from India
This video is, I believe, from 2001. So from the ancient times, when we were downloading stuff from the internet with an ADSL modem. With internet speeds up to 2 Mb/s (but no one could afford such fast lines, mere mortals had 256 kb/s, 512 kb/s lines). And we were burning that downloaded stuff on a CD (if one was lucky to have a CD-ROM with a burner. And then we would carry the precious CD over to friends to share music, funny videos and pics with them. Alternatively, we would use an HDD in a carry tray ...risking dropping it and destroying the drive. And the precious content, that took hours and days to download.
2:12 This was my fav moment when I was a child. And it still is. So nostalgic...
"so why do you need 2000 pvc pipes again?"
"uhh, its complicated."
The Blue Man Group called.
This song is beautiful
FANTASTIC . . .
СУПЕР!!! Это можно слушать постоянно и глаз не оторвать!!!
Это графика
Да, графика. Музыка классная и графика тоде!)
I was obsessed with Animusic 1 and 2 as a child. I still watch them frequently. This was always my favorite. I was so sure it was real as a kid.
Why is it that actors get paid millions of dollars and people who create wondrous things such as this don't. Our society has such ludicrous notions on assigning value and worth to something. This is fantastic!
I've been looking for these for years but searching animusic usually just pulled up AMVs. Thank you for not only uploading these, but upscaling them as well.
Yes! Finally HD! This is great! Also, this is still better than the real life one they tried to make. Good effort for them, but OG Animusic gets the groove going
I remember seeing this in music class as a kid and being inspired to make something like this in real life. All it took was a lot of marbles, a chair, a pool noodle, a basket and a toy drum.
It still mesmerises me after all this time also and its engraved in my brain why they showed us this
WOW 😮 This is awesomely amazing 🥰
una maravilla!!
Someone gotta get all of the smartest engineers in the world together and make this in real life
Look up marble music mech
ive got great news for you
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Done.
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@@tappixlz marble machine*
wintergatan moment
Extraordinariamente hermoso! Gracias! Bendiciones infinitas!😊👏🙏💞
I actually remember seeing this when I much younger.
Ongelooflijk prachtige mooi hoor ongelooflijk hoe dan ongelooflijk
It's videos like these that really make me wish Animusic 3 would happen (even though it probs never will).
i cry
AGREED
jeez didn't think I would ever see this in high quality
Show...show...show...parabéns
Totally brilliant. I loved it years ago. I’m so glad to see it back again.
А ты знаешь что такая машина существует в реальности?)
와 이거 20년도 전에 고등학생때 출처도 모른채 우연히 보고 너무나 맘에들어서 수백번은 돌려보던 영상인데 이게 이렇게 뜬금없이 내 유튜브 알고리즘에 뜰 줄이야!! 너무나도 반갑고 여전히 신기한 영상이네요!!
The magic is that this is great to both listen to and look at.
Absotively posilutely
beautiful！
I love this
Thanks for remastering this! I'm a music teacher and I still enjoy showing this one, for starters anyway!
jeeesh im tripping or smth rn this is crazy as hell holy crap thats amazing
Esto me encanta
Es muy hermoso; es un sueño mío.
こういう綺麗で細かいけど少し古さも感じるCG初めて見た…好きだ…
I remember seeing the original playing on some Alienware at Best Buy and I was just in awe.
there was a version released as an ATI graphics card real time demo
I have been watching animusic for 1 year when i was 3 years old and im still a fan of it even tho i havent watch it since 6 years ago
yeaaahhhh totally remastered and not just put into an ai at all, i reallllllyyyy like how the marbles are smeared in Vaseline
This is nostalgia
Dude you are a fucking legend for making these 4K 60fps. NOW I CAN WATCH THESE ON A GIANT SCREEN! I love you man. You are a gift from god himself
that xylophone part at 1:09 gives me some serious Donkey Kong Country vibes
I hate to be that guy, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to resemble a vibraphone. Similar to the xylophone, but made of metal, warmer sound, and more sustain. The vibraphone is a very interesting instrument so I recommend looking into them!
@@connorself Welp, you're that guy sadly...
@@froghaven sacrifices must be made in the pursuit of progress
@@connorself Very well put. No use faking being an ignorant, just to avoid being called a smart**s. It stalls progress, which would be into the right direction: distributing knowledge. Yes it's of course a vibraphone.
Music classes, 4th grade, teacher would roll out that ancient CRT screen that had a bit of fading to it, the DVD reader sounded like a jet engine at full tilt, the speakers were old and occasionally crackled, she'd slide a DVD into the reader, it had this wacky design of what looked like some bendy sticks on it, you wouldn't think much of it until your ears were graced with the sounds and your eyes were graced with the visuals of *Animusic.*
Years when we downloaded and archived the videos on the computer :) When it was first published, many people thought it was real. It's still beautiful and now my son is watching it too.
Still a banger after all these years
Cool, so nice very nice. Yes, I love it. 👍😍❤️👌
Kerennnn....
I like that the symbols have detail showing they get used a lot.
This has awaken a deep memory hidden inside me
This is awesome. I hope future music teachers will show their students these remasters like mine did with the originals.
And future animation teachers too
Amazing
A beauty of precision and originality ... loved
How on earth did you manage to remaster this? The quality is exceptional!!!
Does anyone else notice that the beginning kinda sounds like the beginning of Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) by Pink Floyd? I notice that there's a wind sound effect, and the buildup from just one note into a full song, just like Shine On You Crazy Diamond! I find that kind of neat.
Edit: Now that I think about it, Pipe Dream 2 is even more similar! The buildup is more similar to SOYCD, and pretty much everything reminds me of SOYCD! Until it gets to the glockenspiel part, from there it starts to differ a bit more. You really should listen to Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9), it is a masterpiece and definitely should be listened to more often!
Parts 6-9 are better than Parts 1-5 lol
Nice work. I am not easily impressed. This impressed me.
amazing
Martin of Wintergaten once said that the original Animusic was his inspiration for the Marble Machine.
do you have proof for such a brash statement?
@MaximumW don't know how brash it is, but Martin mentioned it in at least one of videos. I don't recall which one and don't care enough to look for it.
I like how the circular xylophone just finished expanding at the very fraction of a second the first marble hit it 😂 1:04
All percussionists are cringing right now
It's not a Xylophone.
🙂
C'mon, I'm not a musician and English is not my first language. If I would have said trumpet I would have understood your complaints 😀
@@Delibro well Incase you didn't know, Xylophones have wooden bars. Glockenspiels have metal bars.
i actually didn't know about Animusic until very recently through a YT Short, and i can thoroughly say with how Animusic was made was very impressive and probably one of the best works of Digital music ever made.
this sick
Oh, I’m hurt knowing that this video was this long ago I feel so old😢😢😢😢😢
Imagine turning this in as your digital animation final and getting a D+
Very Good.❤❤❤❤❤
I love the flux capacitor reference.
Animusic
FOR REAL!!!!!!!!!!
FR FR 🔥🔥🔥
F R ?
Fr
Yes
I always love the duel between the xylophone and vibraphone (sorry if i got the instruments wrong idk)
I need a game where you can make some crazy machines like that and play music sequences with them
it is called fl studio
This is the quality we saw in our childhoods
The trick is to get the balls to go back into the tubes to replay them again.
Amazing created music. Take care.
Memories
Love it!!
Love it!!
Das ding ist perfektioniert