Video: "Bewegungen," Christoph Bader, 2014.
"The animation shows 5 excerpts of stylized figures in motion. The figures themselves are frozen, but the movement is visualised with a surrounding vector field."
[YouTube, via iheartmyart.com]
Video: "Bewegungen," Christoph Bader, 2014.
"The animation shows 5 excerpts of stylized figures in motion. The figures themselves are frozen, but the movement is visualised with a surrounding vector field."
[YouTube, via iheartmyart.com]
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