Yahoo Music Lets Users Make Music Videos

The new Yahoo Artist Mods promotion will allow users to download and use a rendering engine from Nvidia to interact with and create animated music videos.

Yahoo Music and graphics processor company Nvidia yesterday announced a new program under which consumers can create animated music videos by combing music titles with interactive digital animation. This new program is called Yahoo Artist Mods.

Yahoo Artist Mods, as described by the two companies, uses digitized models of music artists, stage sets and instruments. Users download a rendering engine from Nvidia and use it to gain control over backgrounds, lighting and camera angles.

The program premiered with two videos: “Just Stop” by Disturbed and “Good Times” by Tommy Lee. Three more videos, including ones featuring platinum artists Sean Paul and Lil’ Wayne, will follow in the upcoming weeks to complete the five-part series.

“Yahoo! Artist Mods is the perfect blend of two favorite pastimes — watching music videos and playing video games,” stated Dave Goldberg, general manager of Yahoo! Music. “We’re excited to be the first to bring this cutting- edge technology online and give users control of their music content experience.”