CGI VFX/3D Docu-Short: 'The Visible Void' - by David Todman

Our world is an illusion - a mind trick. "The Visible Void" challenges our certainties about eyesight, vision and Man"s ability to make sense of a complex world. It explores the idea that "reality" is not solid and dependable but constructed from a set of innate mental tricks. We use these to interpret light"s very limited information to maximum effect For more information, please see the details and links below:

Understanding this explains why we"re so vulnerable to trickery and confusion. But several centuries ago the same discovery opened a door to new thinking in art and science. It was the beginning of a profound journey, one that led directly to the new worlds of "virtual" reality we"re only just beginning to explore today.

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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR - DAVID TODMAN
By day David Todman is a computer graphics and visual effects professional. The Visible Void is intended to be the first installment in a series of films exploring our relationship to "reality" and the way ideas emerge from the world we subconsciously build around us.

"My dad was a physicist but I was considered "creative" - somehow opposite because I was musical and artistic. I never really felt this way myself. I identified really strongly with my father and I think this gave birth to a longing to make connections between the certainty of my father"s science and the uncertainty of my art. Perhaps computer graphics represented an ideal marriage of the two. But I"m far less interested in the technicalities of computer software than I am with what you can do with it: the stories you can tell and - most importantly - the things you can explain clearly in ways previously impossible. This feeds into my lifelong passion for factual filmmaking."

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ABOUT THE MAKING OF "THE VISIBLE VOID"
Shot in the forests of Surrey, England, The Visible Void was a completely self-funded project by writer, producer and director, David Todman.

As a first time director David gathered together a group of professionals he"d previously befriended as a visual effects artist, hoping they might be more forgiving if he didn"t know what he was doing. They were all paid and the best equipment was brought in, shooting on 4K RED. The upside was the quality of the footage. The downside was that David went completely bankrupt and so couldn"t pay anyone to help with post-production. This meant him spending the next 3 years painstakingly completing the project himself: all the visual effects, sound design and music.

He"s vowed never to make a film that way again. But is currently researching and writing a treatment for a related series of films exploring the digital universe in more depth. David hopes someone else might finance the next project as he almost does know what he"s doing as a writer/director now.

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MUSIC TRACKS / COPYRIGHT
All other music - original compositions by David Todman
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DAVID TODMAN (MESH MASH) SOCIAL LINKS
Instagram: @meshmashuk
Twitter: @meshmashuk
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[MirceaKitsune]

I already knew most of this, but it was still nice to watch it explained so nicely. Beautiful little film!

[akhilprakashkulathinkal]

Simply superb work, visual effects grafics everything is extreemly awsome. And above all excellent screenplaning

[LeonardoScarciabudastudio]

Alucinante, Felicitaciones ! Amazing Congrats !

[ColeMayes]

Science taught extremely well, and clear to understand. Awesome! I can't find a "part 2" searching through the video section. What is the next sequence to this very instructional video?

[billluchterhand]

Fantastic, I wish there was a way to lie to the computer I would prefer to push the like button more than once.

[csakamatsu]

I think more these cgi enhanced videos will improve documentaries and gives more tools to education.

[Aruami]

This is like a science video for a lesson on the human body and how it works but only talks about the eye -.-

[MikeTrieu]

Funny how these new "mixed reality" personal displays are actually adopting the concept of extramission via infrared projectors and image sensors to layer the virtual on top of reality to literally blur the lines between the two. Some even go so far as to try to simulate every single ray that hits the eyes from every angle.

[CaseyFinSF]

Great video...but... *how does one tell if they are the real McCoy, or just a product living in someone's three dimensional art project?*
If you stop doing anything/everything eventually you will die, or just stop interacting with your simulation. *You won't know the difference really...*
*Or would you?*

[alain]

Q - How come that when you mount a camera (without a fish-eye-lens) to a balloon that rises, the horizon rises with the camera's view ?

[softlightlaboratory]

This iz sum hard core drugs bruh😛😨😰😱😵😷

[alain]

Occlusion : clouds passing behind the sun ... (google it, observe it)

[carolineedmistoncookifair]

Great information. But why am I looking at a fully dressed man, and the exposed lower abdomen of the woman? Why can't she be fully dressed as well. Should be easy to fix in post production.

[crystalcruz]

But I see the sadow first of ball on then u

[MachSRBlackbird]

I swear to god, if you people don't figure out how the hell to LEARN A THING OR TWO ABOUT VU OR VOLUME UNITS...YOU WILL NEVER BE CONSIDERED ANYTHING MORE THE A "TUBER. This? From CGBros? Come on! EXTREMELY LOUD MUSIC TO START...I gotta turn it down...oh, then you decide when the voice begins to lower right down to inaudible! COME ON PEOPLE, THIS IS PATHETIC. EVERY DAMN YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS LIKE THIS. LEARN VOLUME UNIT STANDARDS, LIKE THE TV STATIONS HAVE FIGURED OUT 5 DECADES AGO! *NORMALIZE* is the keyword for the day!