While it may look like another cool application running on the Microsoft Surface table, it’s something very different.
The girl in the video clip is using nothing but grains of sand to draw these amazing animations in front of a live audience. Her canvas is simply a backlighted glass table connected to a projector, not a multi-touch enabled Surface computer.
Still shot – notice the sand particles in her hands.
Her name is Kseniya Simonova and she is a sand animator from Ukraine. This moving animation, that portrays the life of Ukrainians during World War II, won her the Ukraine’s Got Talent show.
Hat tip: Riyaz Vali.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/home/animations-without-microsoft-surface/9675/
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Reader Comments
She is amazing i wonder what would be like if she were using Microsoft Surface table?
Written by Mida on 09.07.09
Very interesting. So she’s actually manipulating sand directly on the glass? She does that pretty fast.
Wasn’t even aware Ukraine had it’s own “Got Talent” show.
Written by Quikboy on 09.07.09
WOW! Can I post these two videos on my blog? I will give a backlink to this page.
Written by Ankur Gupta on 09.07.09
I’m very glad that you wrote about person from my country – Ukraine! Yeah, Kseniya is the best talent of competition.
Written by milax on 09.08.09