Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2009/09/05/background-music-for-my-blender-3d-animation-modest-mussorgsky-night-on-bald-mountain/

I am planning to create my own soundtrack for “Caramel Cat and the Flowers” just as I did for my previous 3D Blender animation “Meow”, but in the meantime I need some background music for the work-in-progress animations. Remembering how effective a well-chosen bit of classical music can be in animation – I’m thinking specifically about Ren & Stimpy here – I went looking to see if I could find some public domain classical music to use on my animation until the proper soundtrack is complete.

I found musopen.com and the first thing I did was View music for Composer Modest Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain, I did more than view it, I downloaded it. It’s a massive track, 22 megabytes, and I wrote the body of this post while I was waiting for it to download. You can judge by the length of the post I was able to put together during the download time, and the length of the words in it, just how good or bad my Internet connection is.

The track I chose for my animation, “Night on Bald Mountain”, is one of those over-the-top romantic and threatening-sounding pieces of classical music that is so perfect juxtaposed – I’m sorry for using the word juxtaposed but I went to art school and the British tax payer ensured that I was able to learn it, I can’t very well unlearn it now – against the cute visuals of a cartoon. In Fantasia it was personified by a demon. So as soon as it was downloaded I turned it into a wav and added it to my animation blend. Then on with my problem of getting particles generated by a 3D engine to look and behave like fluffy white clouds.