Fractal Serenity - Trailer 1

This is a trailer, giving a sneak peek at the upcoming mysterious short film "Fractal Serenity", with original storyline, music, and 3D computer graphic imagery created by SchwanSongs. The final video will be available on high resolution DVD for purchase online. Please see www.schwansongs.com for more details and news.

Imagine yourself awakening
in a dreamy foggy place,
travelling on a bright
moonlit sea.
The world is both oddly familiar
and disturbingly alien.

As you drift slowly past
strangely gnarled trees
and beautiful giant ferns,
they continually twist and change.

Your breath crackles
and turns to icy frost,
and every heartbeat echoes
through the evening stillness
like a crystal bell.

There is something about this place,
both awesomely serene,
and mesmerizingly terrifying...
as if at any moment
the vision will shatter
like deadly shards of glass,
and kill you instantly...

You dare not breathe.

Copyright 2006, Eduard Schwan Productions, all rights reserved

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• fractal
• serenity
• schwansongs
• eduard
• schwan
• drakonis
• garageband
• macjams
• 3D
• CGI
• povray
• animation
• alien
• landscape

[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]

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".

[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]

Reminds me of Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 1972.

[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