Ryan Warnick has put together a video “The Book of Mormon: The Liahona,” which is a brief, artistic project about the Liahona narrative. “It’s sort of my way of sharing my testimony of the Book of Mormon.”
Ryan further explains, “Several years ago, I put together a video animation of the Liahona (one of my favorite symbolic elements in the Book of Mormon) as a personal, artistic project – and as a way of expressing my feelings about the Book of Mormon and, specifically, this metaphor for how we can receive direction from the Lord if we listen to the Spirit. I decided to revisit that project since my skills in 3D modeling and animation have evolved over the past four years. I rebuilt the Liahona in a glam/steampunk style and played with some glass textures and more interesting macro camera shots. The result is a somewhat more cinematic version of the original.”
3D animations with glass and metallic textures requires intensive work—15 computers, with 118 cores, rendering for approximately 40 hours!
Here is a list of other member-created videos I have shared. If you find other videos you think I should share, please post a comment below.
Fantastic! Thanks your your work. I am an S&I, Senior Missionary Couple with my wife. We are serving at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. We will also be supervising Early morning Seminary Teachers in northern Indiana.
Beautiful work; seminary & institute teachers all over the world will thank you for sharing this with our students this year as we study the Book of Mormon. I’m showing it tomorrow!
Can this be shared at a youth conference? It is beautiful.
This is beautiful!
You will love the Liahona app! It’s an AI-powered journal that connects your actual life to the inspired words in the Book of Mormon.