Those are pretty cool!
As a chemistry student I really like the first one, however, as an official cinematic it seems a little bit too chemistry (and DNA) focused. The first version is way more general.
It needs to be added, that when people hear "science" they think exactly of the molecular shapes one sees in the 2nd cinematic. So both of them are great!
How did you make this second cinematic in just one night? that seems really fast! what software do you use for this? I am not familiar with any software doing such a thing so I am just interested.
For the newer one, 90% is cookie-cutter pieces of animation code that are crudely stuck together - either open source or I bought the rights to use them. It is not 100% from scratch, that would take days! Remember we also have very different timezones - I have had a full day here as it is now 9pm. =)
The 3D pieces are done in Solidworks and refined in Blender. I spent a lot more time on the original, which has more 3D content.
What level chemistry are you studying? I am a PhD student in biomedical engineering.
I am in at the end of my second year, doing my exams for two more weeks. This means I am studying organic reactions 10h a day for the next 4 days 😅. I hope to be able to go into the more computational chemistry part in the future, however, have to take organic and inorganic lectures for 3 more semesters at least.
If you make it through that, you can make it through anything!