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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 07:40:31
Message: <4d63aebf$1@news.povray.org>
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


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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 11:54:44
Message: <4d63ea54$1@news.povray.org>
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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From: Robert McGregor
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 12:40:01
Message: <web.4d63f4a3d2a948c094d713cc0@news.povray.org>
Zeger Knaepen <zeg### [at] povplacecom> 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?

-------------------------------------------------
www.McGregorFineArt.com


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 13:04:22
Message: <4d63faa6$1@news.povray.org>
On 22/02/2011 12:40 PM, Zeger Knaepen wrote:
> I hope you all like it!

It gets my vote.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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From: Christian Froeschlin
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 14:10:58
Message: <4d640a42$1@news.povray.org>
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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From: Alain
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 16:57:05
Message: <4d643131$1@news.povray.org>

> 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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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 18:32:33
Message: <4d644791$1@news.povray.org>
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!
-- 
ZK


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 18:35:04
Message: <4d644828$1@news.povray.org>
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!
-- 
ZK


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 18:40:32
Message: <4d644970$1@news.povray.org>
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!
-- 
ZK


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From: Zeger Knaepen
Subject: Re: Babylon
Date: 22 Feb 2011 18:41:49
Message: <4d6449bd$1@news.povray.org>
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!
-- 
ZK


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