Original Serpent Isle introduction

This gives a look at an intresting development in Ultima VII Part Two.

Description
The Intro of Ultima VII Part Two originally was quite a bit different. It was created as a rendered movie, something unusual at the time. However, it turned out that the eight megabytes needed for this intro (ridiculous little data by today's standards) were far too much for a game sold on floppy disks, so Origin had to alter the intro to save space.

The differences are mainly two:

Denis Loubet made the original animation available in 1998, however without sound or the face of the Guardian (which was created later for lip-synch). The complete intro with all the elements put together can be seen below.
 * Instead of the plain dark blue sky, the sky over Castle Britannia originally was overcast and it was raining. Only the lightning remains in the shipped game.
 * The whole last third of the intro with the Avatar's ship approaching the Serpent Pillars was totally different. It was much more animated; the Serpent Pillars rose from the sea, and many perspectives were different. This was all replaced with mostly static backgrounds.

Trivia

 * Due to the changes to decrease the video size an icy region is shown in the final intro even though a polar region is never seen in Britannia. This was done since the animated water increased the file size significantly.