A fun iPad app made for a Shazam hack-day, Shazhoven is a hang-on-the-wall application that listens for music and re-enacts a “dancing” Beethoven, dressing him up depending on the genre of the music. Made with OpenFrameworks. (due to key parts of the application belonging to Shazam Entertainment LTD, Shazhoven is not open source).
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An image of Beethoven was cut into different pieces and “animated” (e.g. holding up the phone, with a glowing Shazam badge, and with different hairstyles and glasses).
Some extracts of the animations below. Note how the badge glows during recognition, and how Beethoven looks at the phone.
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Some “behind the scenes” edits:
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Splash screen:
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Some stills of Beethoven’s “faces” (normal, holding the phone, “rock”, “zombie”, “Elton John”, “classic music” and, my favourite, “pop”):
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