E. C. Bigribs<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/skywatching" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/skywatchin</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p>This is one of the more interesting things I worked on in the 1990s. It was a night sky simulator, with a bunch of edutainmenty content stuck onto it, including 13 animations narrated by astronomer David Levy.</p><p>I was initially assigned five of the animations, but ended up taking all 13 because the art director had given them to artists with zero animation experience. The day before the publisher and Mr Levy came to review our progress, I pulled an all-nighter to get all 13 rendered and composited (turning every viable machine in the office into an ad hoc render farm), with my voice as placeholder audio.</p><p>David Levy liked my animations. He noted, on my eclipse animation, that the moon was upside-down and the eclipse went the wrong way, but stopped himself and asked the publisher if they were selling the product in Australia. </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/skywatching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>skywatching</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RetroSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroSoftware</span></a></p>