Animation

The second video layer in the Who is Tomasso Antonio promotional video is the lighting of the brand.

The objective for the second layer was to sync the lighting of the brands with the rhymthic phrasing of the theme section. The theme's phrasing follows a repeating pattern of an eighth note and two dotted eighth notes. Additional notes are added to this base pattern building dyads, two note intervals, or triads, three note chords. The dyads and triads are created on either the second sixteenth note of the first dotted eighth note or the third sixteenth note of the second dotted eighth note. 

One of each of the four lighted brands represents a base note of which the dyads and triads are built off of.

The challenge when combining layers is to remember the movement involved in the first layer when working with the second. Keeping the first layer in mind I began with a background that utilized the lens flare effect in combination with the lighting of the first brand. To better help from confusion when piecing the video together frame by frame I abbreviated such a frame as Lens 130 Text (C). Since the first note of the second layer is an eight note the lighting of the brand must sustain for eight frames Though to create the illusion that one note ends and another begins it was necessary to administer a frame without lighting of the brand. Otherwise notes that were repeated would look as though they continued to be sustained. This concept repeats building lighted dyad and triad brands as the audio proceeds to do the same.

For example below, hit the first frame and then use your over arrow key to experience the effect.