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FIELD Brings To Life The Struggle Between Good And Evil

FIELD’s first foray into motion capture results in an impressive music video for English band Stateless.

We’re loving this new music video for “Ariel,” a new single from English electro alt rock band Stateless, created by code-based design duo FIELD. The band’s frontman, Chris James, describes the song as an internal struggle between good and evil, a concept that’s been portrayed by Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn of FIELD as a digitally animated dance. Wendt and Glahn saw the video as an opportunity to experiment with motion capture, and given that this was their first foray into the medium, we’re more than impressed with the results. The liveliness of FIELD’s animations, coupled with the song’s metaphysical underpinnings, culminates in an entertaining and mesmerizing audiovisual collaboration.

The video itself features an abstract and colorful “dance-off” of sorts between two anonymous dancers who contend to fill the screen with different colors and shapes. As each of the dancers moves and morphs, streaks of red, purple, orange and black represent a battle between vivid color and darkness. It begins with with delicate strands of color emerging over a shapeless dark void before revealing the dancers and concludes with the creation of a large black cage that is shattered into thousands of pieces.

We encourage you to check out the making of video (below) to see how FIELD went about combining motion capture technology with their usual digital animation antics.