Due to lack of homework, I've managed to find a creative outlet to pour my free time into... TW recently created a version of the Myst Theme in 8-bit. (You know, like the old NES sound effects?!) This afternoon, he approached me with the idea to actually put his theme to the intro video from the original Myst. I had already been playing around with After Effects for a project (that is still currently secret), so I figured, hey! Why not? It'll help me learn the ropes of a video editing program, which is something I've wanted to do since forever!

Behold! The culmination of 3 hours of work (plus whatever TW put in):

So after I saw the finish production, I thought it might be neat to break it up into the individual parts and show people how Myst is put together and why it took 3 hours to put the video together. Basically, Myst (and Riven) is put together with a massive collection of still images, videos, and sounds, and the videos are placed on the still images wherever they're needed. Very rarely is there a full movie playing. It's mostly little windows playing in certain areas of the screen. Wanna see?! I know you do:

So there you are, folks! Be sure to rate them both! And, dare I say? Watch for more of these videos in the future! (That is, if TW keeps on making the music. Otherwise it's just a video everyone's already seen a hundred times.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm and is filed under Games.