McQueen, Puma + 5 Rings

Menswear Blog — By ObviousMag on July 18, 2010 9:07 PM

Directed by Supernature, the movie was conceived as a series of vignettes, each inspired by the principles outlined in ‘The Book Of Five Rings’, a famed 17th-century text by the samurai Miyamoto Musashi. In this book, Musashi outlines his philosophy pertaining to his mastery of the martial arts, and how the discipline can be cultivated to achieve success in all areas of life.

In these movies, generative computer animation is used to express an abstract concept of the body and its motion in space and time. 3D motion capture data of martial arts choreography was used to generate a variety of effects and animation, suggesting the presence of a body in motion without literally depicting one.