what i've been doing lately

what i've been doing lately

I have been shamefully neglecting my blog of late. There have been a couple good reasons for that, only one of which I will go into at this time. This link is a rough draft of the first 16 seconds of a little video I'm putting together. The whole video will be about two minutes long, and will serve to demonstrate a robot that I am currently designing. These first few seconds are sort of a prelude to the main action of the video, but are kinda cool on their own.

I am using 3D Canvas for most of the animation, as well as Celestia for some background shots. I am doing the editing using VirtualDub and Audacity.

The audio is Boston's Foreplay. I haven't asked permission for this use of their song, but the video isn't a commercial video. It does match the theme of Boston's breakthrough album, with the focus on space and technology.

I am hoping to have the whole video done before Christmas, an hour here and an hour there. When it's done I will post a link to a heavily compressed version here in the blog; I may put a higher resolution version up on Kazaa or bitTorrent. We'll see how it goes.