Reanimating the 1561 Celestial Phenomenon over Nuremberg [14:05]

[snip] I think first and foremost I should say that's there's obviously a good amount of artistic license I've had to take in terms of movement but where the document wasn't clear I tried to strike a balance between movement that could be natural phenomenon and something that's actually controlling it's own movement. The white flashes aren't mentioned, only that there is some period of climax or concluding moment to the combat preceding the wreckage falling to earth, so I thought that struck a nice balance between demonstrating a deliberate edit there and some final clash in the conflict. It also let me hide all the layers I didn't need and if you hadn't noticed that was literally my first ever attempt at animating something so I was taking any help I could get. Overall I'd say I tried to balance decisions between religious imagery, the music for example and potentially natural phenomenon, things like shadows, lens flares and halos and then ufo like movement in other areas where it made sense such as the orbs fighting. In the hopes that ultimately these decisions wouldn't bias it too strongly in any one direction. Really I made it as I saw it after a great length of time studying the document, a mix of natural and artificial phenomenon presented with a heavy religious tilt. [/snip]

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