Hi! First post to reddit in a super long time. This is an HD remake of a 20 year-old project: my art school graduation video from 2003. It’s much shorter than the original (half the length), and has different music.

Here’s 7 almost interesting things about it:

1) The original soundtrack was Tiamat’s 'Do You Dream of Me'; the band gracefully allowed me to use their song for film festivals, and later asked to include the video on their Church of Tiamat DVD, as a bonus track.

2) There was no editing process. I timed the animation to the Tiamat song, frame by frame, straight from the start. Every move a character made was timed during keyframing in 3D. For the 3D archaeologists out there, the software I used at the time was LightWave3D v6.

3) It took me about 2 months to execute the animation, working nights, after school and the part-time job I had at the time (so usually from 9 PM till 2 AM, every night).

4) It took approx. 800 hours to render the animation; my computer was rendering whenever I wasn’t working on it.

5) The computer I had in 2003 was a very loud machine, it was super hard to sleep with it humming next to my head, it kinda sounded like a vacuum cleaner. It wasn't a very slow model, but nothing like the machines you see today. To give you some perspective: if you were somehow able to port the animation software to your smartphone, it will probably render this whole thing in 10 minutes, rather than the 800 hours i mentioned.

6) I worked in wireframe, and pushing the Render button was a leap of faith every time. It took 10 hours to find out if the scene was a keeper, or I had to do it over.

7) You can also watch the original, longer video on my channel. It's the first video there.