On 9/18/2012 11:38 PM, Drakonis wrote:
> "Be careful of working titles, they will take on a life of their own!"
>
> It seemed innocent enough at the time.  I wrote a little piece of music, and had
> to save it with some name, and chose "Synthopolis", because that came to mind
> from the synthesizer voices I used.
>
> So, what does this have to do with POV-Ray, you might ask?
>
> Well, that darned "temporary name" kept telling me that it
> wanted to be more than just a piece of music... so, I decided to make an
> animated
> music video from it, and the name "Synthopolis" and the march-style sound of the
> music made me think of a little parade, in a "little" city.  So I started coding
> up some little macros to create city blocks of multi-story buildings, and some
> unusual parade floats, and from my recent introduction to "tilt-shift"
> photography I wanted to make the POV-rendering even slower, so I added various

> video happened!  There's still a lot I could do with this, but I wanted to wrap
> it up and share the music and animation with everyone.  I did not use SSLT or
> radiosity, but things are OK for now.  Let me know your thoughts good or bad!
> I'm still learning this stuff!
>
> My music video can be seen here: http://youtu.be/oihx9M7UpAM
>
> ttfn,
> Eduard

This is really awesome.  I love the parade.
"...weeks of coding"  Well, I'm certainly jealous of that ;)

dik

(continuing the Sven tradition of replying to 3 year old posts)

Post a reply to this message