Episode 3 · THE RAFT

The experiment

Here it is in order. Click a frame and the film plays from there.

Each act is shot from the point of view of whoever is watching it at that moment. Before each act, a CINEOSIS tile shows that act's sign.

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Part

Previously

What it does

Frames from Episode 2 play under the Cyclops's curse.

scene test The scene rendered on its own before the episode was assembled, to check staging, scale and the line.

Part

I · Olympus

Sign

So 1, Solid perception

What it does

The gods watch Odysseus on a television set standing on a cloud. Zeus decides by stamping a rubber stamp on the screen. Hermes is sent.

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Part

II · the cave

Sign

Ic 4, Icon

What it does

Calypso's island is shown through her face, in close-ups held past the point of information. Archival eyes stand in for hers. She is drawn in violet.

scene test The scene rendered on its own before the episode was assembled, to check staging, scale and the line.

Part

The shore

What it does

Calypso and Odysseus on the beach at dusk. She gives him tools and he builds over four days.

scene test The scene rendered on its own before the episode was assembled, to check staging, scale and the line.

Part

III · the raft

Sign

Lq 2, Liquid perception

What it does

The picture flows like water. Seventeen days and nights pass as seventeen turns of light. The gold hand counts them ("17 DAYS.").

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Part

IV · the storm

Sign

Ga 3, Gaseous perception

What it does

Poseidon's storm is a field of moving dots (a BEFLIX gas), and the raft breaks inside it. Athena holds back every wind but one.

Part

After the credits

What it does

Odysseus sleeps in a bed of leaves. Athena stamps it "SEALED".

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Observed and generated

This part separates what came from the archive from what was made here.

• Every spoken line comes from the Found Odyssey CALL tracks for Book 5. The words and their order are unchanged; only the selection of lines and the pauses were chosen (ody/ep3/cut.py).
• The answers come from The Found Odyssey's line-by-line matches. When an answer's own film is in the library, it plays in a framed inset.
• The plates come from the cineosis-lab clip library: Bryce Canyon, The River, beach and sea footage.
• Generated: all drawing and animation, the stamps, the flow warp, the dot storm, the ink notes, the sound effects and the music.
• New to the cast, drawn in the same ink renderer: Zeus, Hermes, Calypso, Poseidon and Athena.

Files

The code, if you want to open it.

• Engine: ody/ep2/eng.py.
• Scenes: ody/ep3/s_*.py.
• Title, cards, credits and assembly: ody/ep3/furn3.py.
• Rig worlds: crash/m_e3*.js.