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Dont Panic: A Visual Timeline of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams’ Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy is a mish-mash of books, radio shows, movies and infinite improbabilities very close to my heart. Whilst I love pretty much every incarnation of it, the Radio Series is my favourite. I’ve listened to the series several times now, and I quite often listen to an episode at random when it comes up in my iTunes on shuffle. I decided to make this graphic to use as a guide when listening to the show, and as something to celebrate one of my favourite radio shows. Made with blender. Click for full size (960x6400px).

HitchhikersTimeline_BenSimonds ><

Thanks to folks on the Don’t Panic Subreddit for help checking it.

Update:

So I’ve been doing some listening to the radio series, and looking and peoples comments, and made some improvements to the timeline). I think the new one is more true to the series. What’s changed:

Comments

Nicholas Joll (Jun 23, 2014)

Really very wonderful!

Tyler Parker (Jun 23, 2014)

Animating the flow of time would look awesome. Even better: having someone who can impersonate the Guide’s VO to narrate it.

Univartech (Sep 09, 2014)

Great! Thank you!

Nicholas Joll (Jun 23, 2014)

PS: You might want to send this to ZZ9PluralZAlpha, which is the Hitchhiker’s fanclub. The people there would love this.

DeadFlanders (Feb 03, 2015)

Have you thought about making a book version of the timeline as well? This is awesome, but I’ve never listened to the radio series.. Although, now I think I’m going to go dig it up and give it a listen..

Looking this over, it looks like the timelines are very close.. Closer than I would have thought.. Probably wouldn’t take to much..

Aditia (Jun 23, 2014)

Hi Ben, I’m just curious how’d you make that in blender?

Ben Simonds (Jun 23, 2014)

Just curves and text objects mostly. The arrowheads are just cone meshes.

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