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This is deeply personal (always wanted to slip that phrase in ) and, I think, my finest animation to date. The visuals aren't accurate, but they do the job, and the music in combination creates a passable (from this side of the curtain) simulacrum of the absolute wide-eyed wonder experienced, and the very odd sensation of a returning to a place whose memory was more deeply buried than birth.

Technical: the colour change was too fast, so I decided to cut the frame rate to 15 from 30 fps. This has given a slight jerkiness that I choose to interpret as 'shimmer' and I think it improves the overall experience. Compression to .mp4 took the edge off the colours, but they're still acceptable. Originally created in portrait aspect, I decided to hold release and re-render in the usual landscape aspect

The greatest challenge was maintaining focus on the infinity-point at the bottom. After battling with theoretical attempts to elucidate a relationship between zoom (with its log scale) and the rate of movement of a point at the edge, I solved the problem by recording the manual compensations required at five different zoom values then plotting the graphs in Excel and obtaining two quadratic equations linking zoom and the X and Y compensations. These were then plugged into the script loops.

In common with my previous animation, this employs a see-saw scripting technique that's taken me ages to crack, but allows a parameter to oscillate indefinitely. There's probably a simpler way, but I couldn't see it. If anyone's interested, I can provide the framework code.

Really needs high quality theatre mode to appreciate.

Sound: Star drops by Orb Gettarr , via [link]

Description
This is deeply personal (always wanted to slip that phrase in ) and, I think, my finest animation to date. The visuals aren't accurate, but they do the job, and the music in combination creates a passable (from this side of the curtain) simulacrum of the absolute wide-eyed wonder experienced, and the very odd sensation of a returning to a place whose memory was more deeply buried than birth.

Technical: the colour change was too fast, so I decided to cut the frame rate to 15 from 30 fps. This has given a slight jerkiness that I choose to interpret as 'shimmer' and I think it improves the overall experience. Compression to .mp4 took the edge off the colours, but they're still acceptable. Originally created in portrait aspect, I decided to hold release and re-render in the usual landscape aspect

The greatest challenge was maintaining focus on the infinity-point at the bottom. After battling with theoretical attempts to elucidate a relationship between zoom (with its log scale) and the rate of movement of a point at the edge, I solved the problem by recording the manual compensations required at five different zoom values then plotting the graphs in Excel and obtaining two quadratic equations linking zoom and the X and Y compensations. These were then plugged into the script loops.

In common with my previous animation, this employs a see-saw scripting technique that's taken me ages to crack, but allows a parameter to oscillate indefinitely. There's probably a simpler way, but I couldn't see it. If anyone's interested, I can provide the framework code.

Really needs high quality theatre mode to appreciate.

Sound: Star drops by Orb Gettarr , via [link]