Saturn Photographic Animation Flythrough from Outside In

http://www.outsideinthemovie.com/

Not-for-profit animated IMAX™ film in early production by a single filmmaker. Visit the site to make a tax-deductible contribution to support the film. I hope to present this clip at the international giant screen show (GSCA Expo) next month.

I'm very excited to present the first test from "Outside In" that actually represents real footage in progress from the film. Camera moves are still being tweaked and this is cropped version as IMAX™-sized stuff does not play well online. But thanks to the new version of Adobe After Effects, "Outside In" can be made as I have always envisioned.

Much thanks to everyone who has supported and contributed to this. This is the beginning, just a taste of incredible things to come.

This is fly-through of this photograph - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/​catalog/​PIA11141 - only a little brightness and contrast has been made to balance the moons with saturn's body. Do note that several thousand layers of many Cassini photographs were animated to make the fly-through work without any 3D CGI. The saturation is off due to lack of Flash Player ICM support.

This is still a work-in-progress and it's an art film, not a science film, but as new image data comes down I will tweak this shot for improved accuracy.

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[kindapurdy1]

Thank you adult swim for airing an exerpt from this film - Amazing piece of visual art SV2 Studios - Well Done

[AndyBJ]

This is why my middle name is Saturn!

Awesome, thanks.



[stephenv2]

@andiforest Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber

[andiforest]

If you need any soundscape material in the future...I hope you look me up. I love creating music for heavenly video.

[andiforest]

what is the soundtrack? This is stunning work. 

[larryseyer]

Incredibly beautiful! A masterpiece of work! Such dedication! WOW! I totally love this!

[jlg395]

This is the most beautiful video I've ever seen. Thank you. 

[375GTB]

Does anyone really think that Juno's solar panels are going to survive more than

a few months.

Nuclear power eggs are the only way to go in such an environment.

[stephenv2]

@Graphicstodiefor - thanks for the kind words. Ring particles is something I would like to do but still sorting through Cassini data to see if it's possible at iMAX resolutions. There are a few photographs that show particles but no mosaics or likely candidates for them, but I may not have found the right data yet.

[Graphicstodiefor]

Really cool what you are doing here. Seems like you have a love for the heavens. Nice work. My work revolves around earth-based shuttle missions etc animated in a 2.5d environment, but this has a really nice feel. I wonder if it's possible to realize, to a small degree, the ring particles without using 3d. I guess since you are working from actual photographic archives, you want to keep it as accurate as possible.

Once again, nice work.