More Bells and Whistles (computer animation)

More Bells and Whistles was a computer animation created by Wayne Lytle in 1990. Wayne Lytle now owns and operates a company called Animusic, creating music-driven animation similar to the techniques demonstrated in the More Bells & Whistles video. Compared to the newer videos, however, this video is primitive.

This piece was created using Wavefront version 2.7. Wayne created it while he was an employee at Cornell University Theory Center. This institution owns all rights to the piece.

Instruments in the order they're presented:

• Percussion, including:
  • A marimba
  • Three cowbells
  • Five drum synthesizer pads
  • Two "light tower" cymbals
  • An acoustic drum set (one has a snare drum and 8 toms; and the other has bass drum and hi-hat)
• A set of whistles
• A circular vibraphone
• Three church bells
• Ten green "wow"-effect bass synthesizers (bulb shaped)
• Pink electric guitar-effect laser

Trivia

• This short piece was featured on the Canadian kids network YTV as part of its Short Circutz block, and in the movie Imaginaria.

• Many of the instruments featured in More Bells & Whistles return (in more or less similar forms) in Animusic and Animusic 2, the most prominent being the vibraphone fountain in Pipe Dream & Pipe Dream 2 and the wooden xylophone of Stick Figures & Pogo Sticks. Varied forms of the other miscellaneous percussion instruments such as the synth laser (Stick Figures and Future Retro), the whistles (Stick Figures, Future Retro, and Aqua Harp), and the church bells (Drum Machine) also return in the two volumes of Animusic, as well as the company's first production piece, Beyond the Walls (Concerto in 3D).

See also

• Synesthesia

Further reading

• Animusic company history