Broken Earth - Our World Without Our World

This is my longest animation yet. It's a post-apocalyptic future where humans are forced to live in space. I might do more with this theme when I'm more skilled.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Broken
• Earth
• astronomy
• astrology
• cosmology
• amazing
• animation
• apocalypse
• spaceship
• luna
• moon
• planet
• destroyed
• sad
• haunting
• dark
• life
• without
• our

[BionicDance]

I love the concept and the animation was excellent.

Maybe a few critiques; the lightning-like energy between the moving engine-pod things could use a little work, and I would have liked a bit more color variety--even if only varying shades of grey--on some of the ships.

Other than that, it was pretty damn cool. :)

[JosephStrang]

The lightning was actually just a spline with a noise controller on each vertex with a glow effect, very simple. The greyness was intentional, however, to fit the theme. My next animation is about a duck flying a plane to catch its mother. It'll be far more upbeat than this one.

[JosephStrang]

Oh, and do you think this is good for someone who has been using Max for a little less than a year?

[BionicDance]

Yeah, I figured as much about the spline + noise. Still, I think the glow might have been a bit too...tight, I guess; I think it should extend further from the spline. And perhaps if the spline were slightly higher-res, more verts, and the noise perhaps a bit less dramatic, it might look a bit better.

Looking forward to the next animation; sounds pretty rad. As much as I'm loving doing my webcomic, I'm tempted to take some time to make "Vs pilots", an idea I had a while back. :)