UPDATE!
I won overall best!! WOOHOOOO!!
Check it out here (the very first one): http://www6.cet.edu/copper/2010_winners.php
I guess I won 1000$ and stuff. The contest was international and had many different categories, college and high school, literature, music, 2d, video and 3d. They chose mine to be the best of the best. I entered in the high school video category. I got interviewed by my local newspaper (big deal!.. not). And yeah, so I’m pretty psyched.
Finally finished this!
It’s a 2 minute clip about Life and Work on the moon, enjoy! It’s for the NASA 2010 art competition. Titled “Moonshot”…
This is my first animation, and it took a looong time! I planned on being done a couple weeks ago, but the rendering process took forever. It’s just 1 second shy of the 2 minute contest limit. Please leave a comment because I worked hard on this, and it’s nice to hear feedback. Thanks for looking!
Thank you, I’m not too worried about the results, I am just satisfied that I was able to do this. If I don’t win or place this year, I’m definitely going to try again this fall, now that I know what I’m doing.
this is very good i love the camera moment , and angle’s
Thank you! there were parts where I wanted to slow it down, but I had to cap it at 2 minutes, and it was difficult to correct stuff because of the long render times.
Very nicely done! i think you will get something for the contest, at least an honorable mention… but i hope more!
a few crits though:
in the first scene, the angle of the ship on the approach path seems…wrong. maybe because of the camera angle, or something else, but something didnt look right. i am an astronomy enthusiast and have seen many films and documentaries on space in general and the space race in particular. for a reason i cant place, that shot was unrealistic, so i guess i cant tell you how to fix it…
also, in that shot, there are some strange shadows flickering across the moons surface.
while panning through the first “control tower” there are also some flickering artifacts as the camera nears the window.
the textures in general could’ve been improved, and
the particles for the lander’s engines could’ve used some work as well.
but the animation was great! maybe add a little more of people doing things. like in the greenhouse, the guy picking the plants added a lot to the scene.
i think thats it, good luck and great job!
In the future you can make proxi scens with low poly stand-ins for the objects. It is a great way to test timing before you commit to a final render.
Yeah, I should have done that. I didn’t realize it could only be 2 minutes until the greater portion of my scenes were already rendered. There was still stuff I wanted to fit into the last couple of scenes, so parts had to be sped up.
Very nicely done! i think you will get something for the contest, at least an honorable mention… but i hope more!
a few crits though:
in the first scene, the angle of the ship on the approach path seems…wrong. maybe because of the camera angle, or something else, but something didnt look right. i am an astronomy enthusiast and have seen many films and documentaries on space in general and the space race in particular. for a reason i cant place, that shot was unrealistic, so i guess i cant tell you how to fix it…
also, in that shot, there are some strange shadows flickering across the moons surface.
while panning through the first “control tower” there are also some flickering artifacts as the camera nears the window.
the textures in general could’ve been improved, and
the particles for the lander’s engines could’ve used some work as well.
but the animation was great! maybe add a little more of people doing things. like in the greenhouse, the guy picking the plants added a lot to the scene.
i think thats it, good luck and great job!
Thanks, there was a lot of flickering and things wrong. I really wanted to go back and correct this stuff, but the render times were so great. It was also difficult to manipulate the scenes because of their size. So many polys. I really should have done what Richard suggested.
Very cool, I loved the camera work too. The whole thing filled me with sciencey feeling. How did you do the lander’s blue engine flame?
Thank you, I just used simple particles. I gave them a blue material set to halo. The halos had a pretty high “add” value, giving them the white glow.
