as the site says, mindfields shows what happens in your head, how your inner ecological system is being destroyed and opens the way for evil and madness. all you see in the movie has to be seen in a metaphorical way.
about the look & feel of the movie: i was trying to make it look real, in certain aspects but also unrealistic. for mindfields i really tried to push blender to the maximum or particle rendering, lighting and modeling detail.
if you are not sure about downloading, have a look at these screenshots from the movie:
i only have to add at the end that it was both, funny and painful to keep working on such a complicated piece of artwork. the 2 months of production and finally the final 2 week rush into the finishing line… long nights and days of blending… many computer crashes and backups… long, overnight rendering… i have learnt so much during production. finally seeing that now mindfields is being delivered out of my mind and into yours makes me feel like returning home after a long journey.
thanks to derek mounce aka tekobyte who provided the webspace on his site http://www.elementi-motus.com until my own server is back up for working with larger files.
the music is taken from the game myst3exile [and another game i cant quite remember %| ]
Everything is perfect! I can’t see anything “wrong” with it.
@ndy, you are, and you will always be my motivation! Each time I see one of you work it motive me to pratice more and more so, maybe, one day I’ll be as good as you!
That was an absolute pleasure to watch, @ndy, you’re really outdone yourself this time! The idea reminded me a lot of the ‘mental worlds’ of the crazy guy in the movie ‘The Cell’.
Is it just me or in the last 2 months or so has the standard of Blender short films shot up at an almost exponential rate?
How about sharing your gift with either a few hints or a tutorial on how to make particle systems that good that can still be rendered at all. I’m guessing a lot of compositing went on.
Oh, and the grass- duplimesh, particle or fibre??
Awesome, but some bad compression artifacts, maybe you should re-encode it.
Flies were good, dynamica or the other-method-someone-possibly-you-posted-here-a-while-ago?
Wow, as i thought the other day, this DID exceed my expectations!!! Dude, there is no denying how awesome you rock Blender, no one can ever say you suck!!! hehe
It was a real pleasure watching you go crazy, thank you!!!
Matt
Blend on, and blend well!!!
PS: Any time you want to do a tute on those wicked smoke show particals and explosions, i would love to sit down and pay close attention!!! hehe
then this is nice 
but this is good :o 
