Data & Dimensions: Panoply Drops “Manifold” Short Film – Motion design [Video]

London design and motion studio Panoply (whose best work we track here) just dropped us the latest in their ongoing series of CG experiments, an exploration of data and dimensional intersections called Manifold.

Mark Lindner, CD at Panoply: “The film is inspired by the directness of early computers, where hardware and data felt raw and immediate, combined with the exploration of how higher dimensions might intersect our 3D reality and reveal themselves in our world – much like how a 3D object creates a 2D shape when intersecting a plane.

“We started by recording attributes from the 3D objects using rasterization within Houdini (COPs), generating image sequences that captured essential properties such as ID, color, and density. These image sequences are later displayed on the monitors in the film, adding a visual element to the narrative. 

“The film is inspired by the directness of early computers… combined with the exploration …