Hayabusa Satellite Project for ASTRO 101

Instead of writing a paper for my Astronomy class at San Jose State, I asked if I could do something art related. After some research and some proposed ideas I came to the conclusion to model, light, animate, and render a Japanese Satellite called Hayabusa, document it's journey to a near-by Asteroid named Itokawa, and also document it on it's journey back home.

Unfortunately I was a bit too ambitious and could only achieve part of the desired plan. Due to time I had to cut back the project to a nice camera move over earth and a video that highlights the Hayabusa.

On and off the project took about a month to two months.
I used Maya 2009, and Photoshop
The project took 3 days to render on one machine.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the result.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• maya 2009
• 2010
• San Jose State
• SJSU
• Hayabusa
• Itokawa
• Satellite
• animation
• space
• earth
• Craig
• Kitzmann
• mental ray
• CG
• SHM
• Astronomy
• JAXA

[LinZeeLinuz]

sorry man a 41 sec intro i am out of here at 42 secs

[Verstacalisto]

@LinZeeLinuz That's perfectly understandable... that's why I posted the same video without the long intro.

[draqonofwhitestars]

you stole the CAD module, didnt u? there is no way u could have done this much accuracy in 3 days.

[Verstacalisto]

@draqonofwhitestars That's very true there is no way I could had done this in 3 days. Instead it took me a couple weeks to get it completed, it took 3 days to render, not to model.

[Paiste402]

nice work!

[Verstacalisto]

@Paiste402 Thanks! I just need to get better quality videos on here... or maybe switch to Vimeo. We see... but thank you none the less.

[magicalvacation]

oh! GJ!