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Enter a Computer Generated Forest of 'Talking Trees'

Tree trunks become an ecosystem of short films in Dejan Radovanovic's reimagined woodlands.
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Patchworks of projected films canopy the trees in Vancouver-based filmmaker Dejan Radovanovic’s future forest,Talking Trees. "[The project] is my unfinished study imagined as meditative piece which attempts to take viewer on a continuous introspective walk,” Radovanovic tells The Creators Project. The filmmaker began filming the project in the evergreens of British Columbia but then took to the studio to create and animate his cinematic conifers. “First I made a projection map for my trees using fragments from my previous works and then rendered a whole animation with 3ds Max using that map in material slot,” he explains. “At the end, I blended layers in After Effects and added sound in Premiere. The sound is made with mixing field recording and sounds generated with great iVCS3 emulation on iPad.” Talking Trees’ reimagined landscape is a kind of natural database of Radovanovic’s creative portfolio, a crop of ready-made video fragments.

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Stay tuned for the upcoming iterations of Talking Trees – including proposed crowd-sourced additions to the augmented woodland. In the meantime, take a stroll along the path of Radovanovic's career, below.

Click here to see more of Dejan Radovanovic's work.

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