I just finished putting together an animated film using ZBrush, Maya, and AftereffectsWatch on Vimeo-
https://vimeo.com/41806282
or YouTube-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PAsy...eature=mh_lolz

Screenshots and more info-
http://benridgway.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/continuum-infinitum-about-4/


World premiere at the Currents 2012 New Media Festival - Digital Dome display -
http://benridgway.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/continuum-infinitum-world-premiere-currents-2012-digital-dome-institute-of-american-indian-arts/

Resolutions available 4098x4098 (4k), 4098x2160 (super HD), 1920x1080, 1280x720
Continuum Infinitum (c) 2012 by Ben Ridgway
"Continuum Infinitum" unfolds before your eyes by revealing finer and finer details emanating from a single point. It is a meditation on the mechanics of time and space as infinite and seamless processes. The film is designed to loop so it essentially has no beginning and no end. Please download and try looping it The downloaded version will play smoother and has better brightness levels.

I am looking for venues to show this film. It is designed for large scale projection and gallery venues where it can be looped.

As you watch the movie for a minute or so and then look away, you will experience a mild optical illusion that feels as if everything you look at is shrinking away from you. This is caused by the motion after-effect (MAE). It is a visual illusion experienced after viewing a moving visual stimulus for a time (tens of milliseconds to minutes) with stationary eyes, and then fixating on a stationary stimulus. The stationary stimulus appears to move in the opposite direction to the original (physically moving) stimulus. The motion aftereffect is believed to be the result of motion adaptation.

Explanation:
Neurons coding a particular movement reduce their responses with time of exposure to a constantly moving stimulus; this is neural adaptation. Neural adaptation also reduces the spontaneous, baseline activity of these same neurons when responding to a stationary stimulus. One theory is that perception of stationary objects, for example rocks beside a waterfall, is coded as the balance among the baseline responses of neurons coding all possible directions of motion. Neural adaptation of neurons stimulated by downwards movement reduces their baseline activity, tilting the balance in favor of upwards movement.