Sooo.... I'll give myself a try and will work on a submission for this amazing contest.
Basically i want to create a mostly simple animation that shows erosion in a geological time scale.
The first draft shows the cam path i had in mind and behind the image hack link there's a first example as proof-of-concept how i think the animation could work.
I have 6 Terrains made with world machine that are blended over time by simply merging them with the mix function.
After i saw the first small animation, world machine currently calculates the terrains with way more erosion.
I think the settings for stones, grass and maybe some trees will be challenging... also the time scale. the working title for now is 1 million, as for this amount of years, but i will need to figure something out about how much time this would really need and hoe strong vegetation changes in this time.
link (
6MB on imageshack!):
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4016/71224333.gifcurrent cam path already with erosion:
i think the final version should have many thick clouds for a dramatic atmosphere, moving and warping in 2-5 hour time lapse, even if this does not match the time scale of the terrain.