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Related: About this forum"In Saturn's Rings" teaser for 2014 movie
First official teaser for "In Saturn's Rings", a giant screen space film for IMAX®, giant screen and fulldome theaters distributed by BIG & Digital, coming spring 2014.
The film is 100% created using only flat 2D photographs (often hundreds or thousands per frame) stitched together for massive hundred megapixel+ resolutions that are scaled and zoomed using techniques developed by the filmmaker, based on Ken Burns and 2.5D photo animation processes.
A computer is actually not even required to do this - it could all be done exactly using photoanimation techniques from 100 years ago
No 3D models, texture mapping, 3D CGI, camera projection, cloning or painting or any other VFX techniques are used - every pixel is what was captured in the photograph. The photographs are processed as minimally as possible - much less than your average Instagram photo.
I must see this!
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)I'm definitely gonna watch this.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)Someone else will have to be designated driver; I'll be too dazzled to drive home.
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Wounded Bear
(58,737 posts)ChazInAz
(2,573 posts)That brought tears to my eyes. I'm an amateur astronomer, and I have to say that I've never seen anything so beautiful, before. The first image alone made me gasp.
lastlib
(23,322 posts)"In Memory of Carl Sagan and Stanley Kubrick"
progressoid
(50,000 posts)Nice touch indeed.
Volaris
(10,275 posts)better order those IMAX tickets now lol,
and yeah, I almost cried. Can't wait to go see it in theaters, and we need MORE of this kind of thing, so the average person walking around knows how important National funding for Science and Research is to our understanding of the Universe, and therefore, our survival as a species.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)lastlib
(23,322 posts)ornotna
(10,807 posts)Looks great.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)darkangel218
(13,985 posts)I wanna see it now!