Today I showed Craig, one of the instructors at school, the latest spinner footage to see if he thought the spinning motion was too awkward. He thought it looked OK. Interestingly, when I asked him about it, he thought I had done it as an After Effects composite because the spinner shape looked flat so he automatically assumed it ws a 2 1/2D object. Weird. It's like me and Underworld: Evolution where the flying demon that I thought was a composite was really a practical effect. His comment was that the spinner room reminded him of Myst, the old Cyan computer game... you know, a land of mysterious machines. Also interesting. I studied Myst quite a bit when I was in grad school examining the way it handled interactivity. Myst was also interesting to me because it was done with software I was familiar with—an off the shelf version of Stratavision Pro, and a souped-up version of Hypercard. I had done a number of Myst-like tests at the time. Craig also said the video reminded him of wax web, story about a kook that discovers the television of bees (or something like that).
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