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Since mid december I've been working on an animated music-video.  The 
music was made a couple of years ago, the animation was finished about a 
week ago. Here's the result:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAckZrhGN3U
I hope you all like it!
cu!
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ZK
 
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Am 22.02.2011 13:40, schrieb Zeger Knaepen:
> Since mid december I've been working on an animated music-video. The
> music was made a couple of years ago, the animation was finished about a
> week ago. Here's the result:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAckZrhGN3U
>
> I hope you all like it!
I do. Incredible, to think that you did that in just about 2 months' time!
 
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Zeger Knaepen <zeg### [at] povplace com> wrote:
> Since mid december I've been working on an animated music-video.  The
> music was made a couple of years ago, the animation was finished about a
> week ago. Here's the result:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAckZrhGN3U
>
> I hope you all like it!
>
> cu!
> --
> ZK
Wow, that is really cool! All POV-Ray?
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On 22/02/2011 12:40 PM, Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> I hope you all like it!
It gets my vote.
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     Stephen
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Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> I hope you all like it!
Yes, very impressive! I especially like the atmospheric
light effects and the water waves.
Two minor nitpicks:
Some camera rotations look a bit distorted to me, e.g. at 6:10.
Possibly a projection effect due to wide angles?
Even dense asteroid regions usually have distances of hundreds
of thousands of kilometers between individual asteroids, but that
is a common misrepresentation in popular science fiction as well ;)
 
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> Since mid december I've been working on an animated music-video. The
> music was made a couple of years ago, the animation was finished about a
> week ago. Here's the result:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAckZrhGN3U
>
> I hope you all like it!
>
> cu!
Great :)
I like your destination planet. I think that's the most alien habitable 
world I ever saw, while been strangely beautiful.
I concord about the asteroids. I must add that a space flotila would 
very probably travel with the various ships separated by at least 100Km. 
When you travel at over 300 km/s, such a flight formation can be 
qualified *tight*!
But, then, you no longer have anything to see... and visualy, that's bad.
Alain
 
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On 22/02/2011 17:54, clipka wrote:
> Am 22.02.2011 13:40, schrieb Zeger Knaepen:
>> I hope you all like it!
>
> I do.
thanks! :)
 > Incredible, to think that you did that in just about 2 months' time!
Well, I did use some (reworked) older work.  The planets (both earth and 
the alien planet) for example are based on a planet-generator I made 
years ago.  The lensflare was also designed years ago.
And also, most objects used are *extremely* simple.  I think none of the 
scenes took more than 3 days to render, for sometimes up to 750 frames. 
  I also used different tricks that allowed me to use a lower 
AA-setting, like mipmapping, scaling things way too big to be realistic, 
and using extremely simple textures for far away objects.
But still, I'm kinda proud of the result :)
cu!
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On 22/02/2011 18:38, Robert McGregor wrote:
> Wow, that is really cool!
thank you!
 > All POV-Ray?
Almost all POV-Ray. Obviously I used some photographs as backdrops for 
the first few scenes, and also the glowing of the "wormhole" was done in 
PP using Blender (I could have done it with POV-Ray though, but it would 
have taken longer and looked worse).
cu!
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On 22/02/2011 20:10, Christian Froeschlin wrote:
> Yes, very impressive!
thank you :)
 > I especially like the atmospheric
> light effects and the water waves.
the water is simply a plane with a moving granite normal :)
> Two minor nitpicks:
>
> Some camera rotations look a bit distorted to me, e.g. at 6:10.
I agree, I probably should have redone that scene, because I also don't 
really like the ground texture, or the lens flares there.
Oh well, maybe I'll do a remake sometime. Seems to work for hollywood 
these days :)
> Possibly a projection effect due to wide angles?
I suppose so.
> Even dense asteroid regions usually have distances of hundreds
> of thousands of kilometers between individual asteroids, but that
> is a common misrepresentation in popular science fiction as well ;)
I know that :) But if you want realistic space scenes, they're gonna be 
quite boring :)
So it's more of an artistic choice rather than a real mistake :)
cu!
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On 22/02/2011 22:57, Alain wrote:
> Great :)
Nice to hear that :) thank you!
> I like your destination planet. I think that's the most alien habitable
> world I ever saw, while been strangely beautiful.
Original concept was way more alien, but that would have taken far too 
long :)
> I concord about the asteroids. I must add that a space flotila would
> very probably travel with the various ships separated by at least 100Km.
> When you travel at over 300 km/s, such a flight formation can be
> qualified *tight*!
>
> But, then, you no longer have anything to see... and visualy, that's bad.
exactly! :)
cu!
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