Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

I got asked if I could do a bootvideo for the Mer project, so I gladly did. I tried to follow the awesome underwater theme created by wazd and came up with this:

avi xvid/lame dl:
http://castus.dnsalias.com:8080/shar...omp_draft1.avi

ogv Theora/ogg:
http://castus.dnsalias.com:8080/shar...omp_draft1.ogv

Please give comments and suggestions for improvements.. thank you!

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

I love it.

Animation might even look good played back unnaturally fast, total time 1 second.

Might look good if the m e r text fades-in without the bubbles, and then the bubbles freeze in-place at proper position while bleaching to white.

Some people might prefer more bling-lighting from waves/sun above.

Also perhaps a different fade-in effect for logo; at start, logo is strongly blurred and dark and sort-of appears coming out of the deep blue.

- just ideas if you want to play more. looks fine to me as-is.

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

Nice video, I like the water effects

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

can't open the link, but looks great from the stills. any info on getting custom boot video running on n900?

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

From this thread : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32935

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

That is just beautiful!

Is this made with After Effects or what?

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

I like it. When will the OS be ready to be the only OS on my N800?

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

Thank you, those are all great suggestions. I think it would be cool abit faster too. Its very calm and dreamy in this phase, but that is good too. I will try to tweak those bubbles abit faster..

That bubble idea with some actually freezing in place forming the logo is great. I see if I can mange to keyframe those bubbles seperatly from beneath to inplace. Should work..

More shine from the surface is possible. I usually put on more from start but then in the finishing process cut down on most of them.

I agree that logo entrance does need some work. I will see what I can do there..

link should work.. please try again..

thank you, yes its AE all the way..

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

That's really nice :)
Is there some sort of hard-coded time-constraint limit to boot-up video's duration (apart from good common sense)?

Re: Mer bootvideo (under water theme)
 

That is amazingly beautiful. Thank you. :)