scottmanley

My Earliest Space Video From Over 20 Years Ago (Patreon)

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2019-06-11 21:38:09

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2026-06

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I created this video using POVRay in the 1990's showing a spacecraft being sent to divert a comet using a nuclear blast. I didn't use a modeller, I hand coded all the scene files, all the animations, and even wrote an asteroid generation system that started with a cube and subdivided it into polygons.

It has several obvious mistakes (like keeping the fairing around for no reason other than wanting it to look cool), and lots of wasted time panning around the object, but bits of this animation still ended up getting used in a TV show.

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My First Spaceship Video

I found this in my archives, probably from 1998. This was all rendered using POVRay, I hand coded all the models using graph paper and The POV Scene Description Language. The 'editing' was performed using a bunch of shell scripts and ImageMagic to do the cross fades. Encoded into mpeg3 video using some free encoder app which I no longer recall. This was weeks of work for me.