Inspired by Mohammed's Atom Train Anim

Mohammed had come up with a very cool "Atom Train" animation using Xara 3D.

I wanted to try something similar in Blender.

Though it seems like it would be a nightmare, it was actually very easy to animate the parts. Each animated group needs just two keyframes. One at rest and then one at the end of some rotation, 60° (the green/silver mirror spheres), 180° (green spheres, "rainbow" spheres, and center sphere). Change extrapolation (in Graph Editor) to Linear.

http://www.jamesalexander.de/MohammedInspired.gif

Peace

James

That's cool James. It's amazing what you can do with a combination of Xara and Blender!