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progressoid

(49,999 posts) Fri Jul 19, 2013, 07:57 AM Jul 2013

"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!

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"In Saturn's Rings" teaser for 2014 movie (Original Post) progressoid Jul 2013 OP

I got goosebumps. DetlefK Jul 2013 #1

I'm there sarge43 Jul 2013 #2

That looks pretty awesome... Wounded Bear Jul 2013 #3

My god... ChazInAz Jul 2013 #4

Nice ending touch: lastlib Jul 2013 #5

I didn't see that the first time. progressoid Jul 2013 #7

No kiddin'.. this should be sold out for a year heh Volaris Jul 2013 #11

Marking to check out at home. nt awoke_in_2003 Jul 2013 #6

Saturn: Lord of The Rings lastlib Jul 2013 #8

That is a must see ornotna Jul 2013 #9

Wow.. secondvariety Jul 2013 #10

Why so late in 2014?? darkangel218 Jul 2013 #12

Something wonderful to look forward to.. BlueJazz Jul 2013 #13

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. I got goosebumps.

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 08:17 AM

Jul 2013

I'm definitely gonna watch this.

sarge43

(28,945 posts)

2. I'm there

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 08:47 AM

Jul 2013

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

(58,712 posts)

3. That looks pretty awesome...

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 10:28 AM

Jul 2013

ChazInAz

(2,572 posts)

4. My god...

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 11:56 AM

Jul 2013

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

(23,287 posts)

5. Nice ending touch:

Reply to progressoid (Original post)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 12:55 PM

Jul 2013

"In Memory of Carl Sagan and Stanley Kubrick"

progressoid

(49,999 posts)

7. I didn't see that the first time.

Reply to lastlib (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 19, 2013, 05:54 PM

Jul 2013

Nice touch indeed.

Volaris

(10,274 posts)

11. No kiddin'.. this should be sold out for a year heh

Reply to lastlib (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 02:27 AM

Jul 2013

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.