ORPHIC ENDEAVORS

The GRAVITY video

Yes. After three months and lots of broken promises "Gravity" is completed. I just submitted it to CNET but it takes a long time for videos to appear there so I have to also put it up here. Odds are you guys will see this thing long before the folks at CNET will.

It was built using an embarrassingly still not paid for Moray 3.5, rendered frame by frame using Povray 3.6. (I didn't use any automated processing because I couldn't figure out how to get the animation thing to work!) I put the pieces together in the really old freeware version of Ulead GIF Animator 2.0, then I opened them in Swish 2.0 and saved them as an AVI file, opened up Magix Video Deluxe 2.0 and put all the pieces together with the music and here it is. Finally! Wow! What a job that was!

The first one is a whopping 50 something megabytes, but any worse quality and you can't see the stars at all. The second version is still big at 20mb. I'll try to get a lighter version up as soon as possible. (Magix has a bug and sometimes loses things when you close the program. It lost sections when I tried to open it to make smaller versions this morning. I'll have to go back in and fix everything before I can render the littler videos.)

Anyway, enough chatter! Here it is! Just think of a guy in space dreaming of being home on Earth with both feet on the ground.

GRAVITY Windows Media format - 50.2mb
GRAVITY (lite) Windows Media format - 19.8mb