Last updated 7th August, 2007.
Preview still and moving images are the actual size of each movie. Moving previews are in the .gif file format.
After paying the access fee for a movie, an email will be sent to you confirming your username and password and a link to the full movie you paid to access. Passwords will be sent as soon as possible, depending on the time of day, please allow up to 12 hours for the password to be emailed to you. After you have paid the access fee for the full movie, you will be directed to a page where you will need to enter your username and password.
Wait until the full file downloads, the smallest one here is 27 MB, so you will need to have a fast internet connection to obtain these files quickly! These files are not streaming mpg files, the whole animation will need to be downloaded before the movie displays. Right click the file, save it to your computer.
These animations are all seamless looping movies of the earth rotation on it's own axis in space. Each animated earth rotates on its own axis around itself and loops back to the starting position in 720 frames.
All animations on this page are 30 frames a second with a movie duration of 24 seconds.
Large Texture maps were made from map scans with a flat mercator projection of the earth and enhanced in Photoshop™ so that the top and bottom edges were the same colour as were the left and right edges. Each texture map was wrapped around a planet at frame one. The rendering of each movies frames took days of raytracing.
The final large file of each movie was then recompressed with the Cinepak compressor to make smaller files sizes which animated smoothly. The first couple of frames of each movie were made into an animated gif to show the movie's size and the beginning of the animation. The preview gif files are not as fully photo-realistic as the Quicktime file format as the gif files display less than 256 colours, but they do provide a reasonable preview of the full earth movie animation which you must pay a subscription fee to view and save to your computer. The subscription fee is for the display of each movie for personal use only, not for commercial use.
All movies are © hereticpress.com 2007. The download fee is for personal use of the movies on a single computer. These movies are not for redistribution or resale.
Licenses to use graphics on commercial sites are related to the number of page views. The price for the commercial use of Heretic Press graphics is:
$300 US a month for under 1,000 page hits a month
$500 US a month for over 1,000 but under 10,000 hits a month
$900 US a month for over 10,000 but under 100,000 hits a month
$1,400 US a month for 100,000 to 1,000,000 hits a month
$2,500 US a month for unlimited use on commercial sites
Some movies are available as animationed gif files. Many Quicktime Movies are now available as gif animations in three sizes, thumbnails, phone screen sizes and quarter screen and NTSC standard 640 × 480 pixels.
All movies were made for Heretic Press and are © Heretic Press 1994/2007. Thumbnails of movies will not open the movie without the password which is needed to view and save the full file.
Mobile Small Phone animations
Mobile Large Phone animations
Quarter Computer Screen animations
