Fractal Serenity - Trailer 1

[TheTark]

Hi Eduard! When is your video going to be done? Do you have a date set yet?

[schwansongs]

About 2/3 done, but as a hobby, real life always takes priority :-) I still have months to go before its ready for YouTube. Thank you for your interest, I'm off to check your POV-Ray animations!

ttfn,

Eduard

[crearto]

Its good to see, that I'm not allone :-)

I was thinking, that everybody, whos making videos, are working with other programs than POVRay. But I think POVRay is a very strong tool. You show me, that I'm right ;-)

thank you,

Gerhard

[schwansongs]

Hi Gerhard, I thought I was alone too! :-) Great to see the animation work you are doing. I look forward to more of your works!

ttfn,

Eduard

[BirdmanWayne94]

Eduard, this is such a fine video. Dreamy background music and the whole work is truly amazing. I loved that video so much and wish to see the DVD published soon !

All the best,

- Yeman

[schwansongs]

I'm very glad to hear that you enjoyed the sneak-peek. Even these scenes are improved now, and others are being crystallized from my sketches. Seeing this in DVD-quality is much better than this, of course (you can watch this trailer in DVD-quality on my "Dance of the Technoids" DVD.) I got diverted temporarily with the exciting Condor video, but am starting to work on rendering the scenes again, now on my new faster computer :) Keep practicing guitar, your music is a delight!

ttfn,

Eduard

[Bev1946]

Reminds me of Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 1972.

[schwansongs]

What a wonderful connection! I had not heard of this sci-fi film, so I did some googling and youtubing and got an idea of the story/film... thank you for pointing me off in that direction! Of course, my video and storyline is a lot shorter and simpler than Tarkovsky's vision, but hopefully it will be similarly thought-provoking and mesmerizing.

[Bev1946]

Eduard, I did find your trailer thought-provoking. On a large screen it would also be mesmerizing. Hope you can see Tarskovky's movie. landmarktheatres dot com sometimes lists it, but it's not listed on upcoming features right now. Look here: digitaldouble.blogspot dot com and scroll to "Watch the World(s) A Second Life Machinima".

[RoxyleeS]

Hey, Eduard, this is intriquing. Are those things...alive under that cracked sky? I'm looking forward to the next part. I hope everyone realizes how many countless hours it takes to imagine, creat, and render all those images! Your movies take me out of the mundane and into a world of countless possibilities.

[schwansongs]

Are those things alive? Sorry, I can't answer that question without giving away a chunk of the storyline :-) You'll just have to wait and see. And to break you free of the ordinary and mundane, and fly among infinite possibilities... *that* is my goal! Fasten your seatbelts...

-Eduard

[perceptualvortex]

Nice imagery, Eduard. I thought the quaternion fractal was the coolest.

[schwansongs]

hehehe, glad somebody can see in 4 dimensions... that thing looks awesome rendered full-sized, and takes bloody forever to render that scene too, with the glassy refraction, reflections, and quaternian math. I went through a bunch of coefficients to find a good looking "thing" (I can't tell you what it is yet, you have to wait for the movie :-) ) Thanks for stopping in Dave... when this video-story is done, I think it will be quite a surreal treat!

-Eduard

[perceptualvortex]

It is quite surreal... serene too, though that sky is slightly menacing. Did you model the fractals in POV, or use a fractal program to make the shapes? They look cool; that refraction works great on it.

[schwansongs]

The sky is supposed to be a bit menacing, not something you would want to live under :-) The quaternian is a "native" shape in POV(!), but the IFS and julia islands in the beginning there are created by other software and used as height-fields in POV.

-Eduard