Editing Tutorial

I made a "3D screencast" about how to edit a wiki webpage. This new version replaces the old version that is still available at the Internet Archive. I have been comparing the Internet Archive's Embed Video Format of the new video to the YouTube Embed Video Format.

The YouTube version is not bad. The 640 x 480 pixel OGG video format version at Wikiversity is better.

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Test of the Internet Archive embed flash video player:

Character Animation

I made a short video using DAZ Studio. This uses the "fairy" model that comes with DAZ Studio. I'm not sure which is sillier, putting wings on the fairy so she can fly or letting her fly by getting on the dragonfly.

Space Flight

I started experimenting with Bryce and made some computer animation scenes for a trip from Earth to a distant star system. A nice feature of Bryce is that multiple computers on a local network can be used to render an animation.

The worm hole was designed to have a series of 4 rings blast out as the ship entered. I need to go back and look at the motion paths in detail because rather than blast out in single file, the rings crashed into each other and bounced around.

Computer Generated Animation

I started experimenting with computer-generated animation. The short (50 seconds) video call "Planet Fall" at YouTube is a teaser for the story ""The Nanoepitaxy of Susanne Marie". I found Vue to be fairly easy to use with a good introductory tutorial and a big users manual. In contrast, Xface seems to have limited documentation.