Vostok Launch Animation

This animation of a Russian Vostok (1961-63) launch and re-entry is modelled and animated in Bryce, with a little input from After Effects and Photoshop. Soundtrack is Pachelbel's Canon, performed by my brother John. The ball-bearing puzzle at the end was designed and built by my father Tom in the 50s.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• korabl
• Vostok
• R-7
• Kazakhstan
• Baikonur
• launch
• space
• re-entry
• Russian
• Gagarin
• spaceship
• USSR
• capsule
• orbit
• Korolev

[jaragak]

Real nice video.. I like the end also.

And beautiful music. Much better than the average youtube-amateur-video...!

[armitaj]

Thanks... the music is Pachelbel's Canon played on guitar by my brother.

[armitaj]

I have several books, incl. Clark's "The Soviet Manned Space Programme" (Salamander) + a fat book in Russian called "Energia 1946-1996" I got at the Museum of Rocket and Space Engineering at SP Korolev RSC Energia, which is what Korolev's OKB-1 design bureau has morphed into by 1998, when I was there. See also astronautix dot com

[youarthurhu]

Impressive, this is better than the NASA explantions and hokey 2D simulations we got from Uncle Walter. Where in the world did you find all the drawings? Do one for Soyuz while you're at it. Looks pretty much the same, doesn't it?

[armitaj]

And also, yes the Soyuz launcher looks much the same as the Vostok launcher (R-7), though developed and longer. The Soyuz craft is different, though, a 2-stage thing with bell-shaped descent module, solar wings and an ovoid orbital module.

[explorer45]

It would have been very nice without the pinball end

[armitaj]

Thanks, though I like it with the ending. It's not a "pinball", it's a ball-bearing puzzle (where you go along the track or fall down the holes) which was hand-made by my father in about 1959. As well as this solar system one he made an A-to-Z and some railway puzzles.

[SmiertSpionem]

Very good.

"In Kazhakstan, rocket launches you..."

[okEric89]

@explorer45 I was like damn... I'm trippin good, but no it really did turn into a pinball game.

[sandamn85]

you and your family are very talented.

[chapman1235]

Very bad graphics sorry dude

[BobbyProFilms]

lolz nice i never knew it landed in england! thx

[proferic]

The guitar is out of tune. It's either the B or the high E, or perhaps both.

[kosiak10851]

The rocket carries spacecraft absolutely vertical all the time Then falls down and the ship continues orbiting. How can it be? Try to make such launch in Orbiter simulator. Your ship will fall and burn.

[skippy999999]

the grafics are fuzy but amazing really it mustof taken forever!