Useless and Fun Animusic Trivia
Fun fact! The render of Acoustic Curves on the back of the original Animusic box never shows up anywhere in the Acoustic Curves animation, stage construction, or dev stills! It's from the standard bass angle but the camera is shifted a bit to the left to show more of the strings. It is theorized to be a custom render made for better visibility on the box or an earlier camera angle.
The Animusic Sampler DVD was featured in the Ultimate Christmas Gift 3 set which has an original render of the red guy from Starship Groove holding Drumsticks on it! The story behind this render is unknown. Perhaps the Groovebots from Starship Groove were originally going to use drumsticks instead of their hands, or it's just a crappy photoshop job some underpaid intern had to make to make the box look more flashy. The world may never know!
Did you know that in 2006 reprints of Animusic Special Edition and Animusic 2 boxes were made? That's right! Only the boxes were reprinted but not the discs. The new boxes featured slight changes to the box like dates and text on the back, and the ribbon at the bottom of the Animusic Special Edition box getting slimmer and losing its texture. Take a look at your copies of Animusic and see what boxes you have!
Here's a fun factoid! There is a supposed lost music animation called "[inexperienced]" by Wayne Lytle in 1989 as mentioned in this Japanese blog post. It is said to have featured four egg-shaped objects glow by computer performance. Is it a true fact? Could it be a misremembering of something like More Bells and Whistles or a Cornell Theory Center Animation? Or is it simple a horrible google translate translation? The world may ever know!
You may have never noticed it, but at the bottom right of the triple-necked guitar in Future Retro, there is a nub sticking out. Some people find it disturbing. If you are one of those people, have fun trying to sleep at night! Because once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
You might think you know all the Animusic DVDs, but you don't! There are 4 beta DVDs that nobody in the community can get their hands on or document further than a single blurry picture in a blog post. Heck, one of them doesn't even have a blurry picture! It's just known to exist with no found evidence yet. One day we will know more about these sacred DVDs, but for now they remain as a mystery.
The Producer of the Mind's Eye series and founder of AnimationTrip, Steven Churchill, has close ties to Animusic. Not only does he receive special thanks to at the end of Animusic's credits, but he also has many DVDs, VHSs, and Laserdiscs that contain video made by Animusic! They are as follows: Computer Animation Festival Volume 1, Imaginaria, Computer Animation Showcase, and Computer Animation Adventure. Steven Churchill also sells most of Wayne Lytle's products on his store to this day! There might be more connection Steven Churchill and Wayne Lytle have, but if there is anymore it is unknown.
Solo cam #3 in Drum Machine, the drums are translucent whereas in the full animation, the drums are opaque.
When the cymbals are hit in Pipe Dream they rotate just a bit. Isn't that fun! Take a look! Now that you know about it, you won't be able to unsee it!
Wayne Lytle has a Freesounds account. On it you can find a lot of the sounds he used to make The Sound of Twelve. Some theorize the unused sounds could be used or planned to be used for Animusic 3. Only time will tell. Take a look at the account for yourself here!
Did you know that Wayne Lytle is a baby boomer? That's right! The year range that someone to be born in to be classified as a baby boomer is 1946-1964, and Wayne Lytle was born in 1962, which makes him a boomer!
The domain name "animusic2.com" was originally owned and used by Animusic as a directory to store files. It was eventually bought out and is now used as a Chinese spam site. Do not go there. You will probably get a virus.
In the Director's Commentary for Stick Figures, Wayne Lytle says he likes to call the lead bass in the animation "The Stick." It was unknown why until recently why he would call such a cool character something as bland as "The Stick" instead of something cool like "Mr. Stick."Â
Fun fact! The most amount of people to ever work on an Animusic animation is 4! Just listen to the Heavy Light Director's Commentary!
Although not made by Wayne Lytle, he receive thanks in Myron W. Evans' Cornell Supercomputer Animation of B(3) field.
Halfway through the Pogo Sticks menu in the index menu in Animusic 2, the stars in the background disappear from the sky. Spooky!