After last week’s resurrection of some old coding projects, this week I bring you my animation portfolio! Wow, I haven’t looked at this stuff in at least 4 or 5 years. The timestamps on the files were from ‘97 & ‘98. Ah… good ol’ 3D Studio Max R2. I think I actually may have done some of these on 3d Studio R4 which wasn’t even a Windows program (it ran in DOS). Sorry about the crappy quality, I rendered these on a P3-333mhz system with probably 64 megs of ram, and they took all night long. If I bumped up the quality, that would have tacked on another week of rendering time.

  • earthrse.avi: Ever wonder what it would be like to watch the earth rise while on the moon? Well this doesn’t do a very good job of depicting it. Hah!

  • barn.avi: I have no idea what inspired this

  • rainstorm.mpg: Unfortunately I never really finished this one. I intended for it to be much longer.

  • duck.avi: This was a fun one to do.

  • mercuryg.avi: Another space one. Why I thought Venus was blue… I don’t know.

  • clacker.avi: Never did spend the time to get the physics right on this one.

Oh, and I also used to do animations in high school for the video yearbook and the morning announcements. Damn I was cool.

Update: YouTube was invented