Small Animation (1,5MB)

I want to give you a small animation in Poser 5.

My M.A. (history) is about a soldier from the 30 Years War who left a diary. In my PhD I will elaborate on the subject.

Anyway, this Quick Time clip is part of the intro sequence in my DVD. Apparently the soldier had taken notes for all these years but he rewrote the whole book while he was stationed in Memmingen between 1647 and 1649. By that time he had been a soldier for at least 24 years. That's why I gave him grey hair.

The clip is originally 1024x768 but for sake of loadability (is there such a word?) I reduced the resolution to half the size. Well, this animation is not very professionally done, I only wanted to include a 3d impression into my intro.

The DVD includes about an hour of video footage, mainly created by myself, music and an interactive version of the diary (meaning one can read the pages because I scanned them). For people not familiar with the old orthography and handwriting of the 17th century in general one can click a play-button and let the text be read by me.

The main scientific achievment is that I found out the name of the author. First few and last few pages are missing so it wasn't clear who the author was. Doing some research in archives which were not destroyed by one of the numerous wars in Germany since 1648 I found what I was looking for.

I think the DVD could have the potential to be published and sold but I can't do that... because I don't own all the copyrights.

I will deal with this problem in my PhD. I want to study the possibilities of using self produced multimedia resources in education, especially in history classes in secondary school.

My intention in giving this long, long explanation was to let you know that this 3d animation is not state-of-the-art because I had to deal with so many other fields when doing a project of this magnitude all by myself.

BTW, I will start my PhD later this year.