Visualize sugarplum fairies dancing on your screen

July 29, 2018 1:30 PM

Ramin Nasibov, a designer and art director with an interesting and quirky Twitter feed, tweeted this short (2:12) animated graphic score/musical visualization of Tchaikovsky's "Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy that was created by Doodle Chaos."
posted by Room 641-A (14 comments total)

Absolutely gorgeous. Must have taken a lot of time to get all of that to synchronise, particularly the wee guys going off the screen and catapulting back exactly on cue. Not even procedurally generated: it's pixel ballet!
posted by Wrinkled Stumpskin at 2:21 PM on July 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

Lots of coordinating work, simple drawings, beautiful music. Excellent results.
posted by CRESTA at 2:34 PM on July 29, 2018

I like it, even though they don't seem to be hitting precisely. Those tiny cyclists have soul!
posted by asok at 2:43 PM on July 29, 2018

So much cleverer than expected.
posted by sammyo at 2:48 PM on July 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

(Doodle Chaos is the creator; Nasibov just tweeted the video out.)
posted by damayanti at 3:06 PM on July 29, 2018 [2 favorites]

Mod note: Fixed attribution
posted by Eyebrows McGee (staff) at 3:45 PM on July 29, 2018

I'd only seen "In the Hall of the Mountain King" before. But this one is pretty great, and some of the synching is amazing.
posted by Gorgik at 4:06 PM on July 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

(Doodle Chaos is the creator; Nasibov just tweeted the video out.)

Thank you, I followed a bunch of tweets and thought I'd got to the end.
posted by Room 641-A at 4:46 PM on July 29, 2018

Awesome. To really appreciate this, it may help to check out the online app with which it was created.
posted by soy bean at 7:07 PM on July 29, 2018 [1 favorite]

Loved this. It was surprisingly soothing to watch.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:58 PM on July 29, 2018

oh man, i haven't thought about Linerider in years. thanks for this!
posted by numaner at 1:48 PM on July 30, 2018

this one for Alan Walker's "Fade" has the rider and the sled separated a third of the way in and they're both used for different beats and tunes of the song, it's impressive, especially since in that game once the rider and the sled separates it's harder to predict how they'll react on each land and jump. and the bits where the sled is used to knock the rider into the next line is amazing.
posted by numaner at 1:54 PM on July 30, 2018

if this is your type of thing, here's a top ten list of tracks made in 2017, DoodleChaos' Mountain King track is at #2
posted by numaner at 2:08 PM on July 30, 2018

My favorite of these (in part because I love Caravan Palace) is the "Lonely Digger" one.
posted by Hactar at 4:43 PM on July 30, 2018