The chair seen in the Loading Room and in the Boxing Ring was made of popsicle sticks, and photographed from 16 angles. The spinning silhouettes of chairs in the Exterior intro were rendered with Strata. The texture catching the shadows is a photomicrograph of cobwebs, made with a cheap Intel QX-3 Play Microscope. The leaves in the Loading Room are really nasty things that fall on my driveway at home. Ouch! I just put them on the cheap Canon scanner directly. The words "SANTA CRUZ OFFICES OF OMINO.COM" in the end credits was made by printing very small (about 7 point) on my cheap Epson printer, and then rescanning it. And then messing it up further in photoshop. The money in the end credits is a 10-cent "fractional currency" note issued in 1874. The motion through the Machine was done by first plotting a course through the elements, and then having the camera-target and spotlight-target follow that path. Then, the camera/spotlight structure was programmed to follow that path but about two seconds behind the target movement. The narrative effect was that something would catch your interest, and then you would move to get to it. The five gemstones in the Machine were livened up by videotaping the QuickTime movies through a quartz stone on an Apple Studio Display laid on its back. dvb 2004