by BMAONE23 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 5:02 pm
Guest wrote:I'm the filmmaker....
Very honored to have my clip chosen. For the questions so far - this is an art film about space exploration. It's also a work-in-progress clip. This is not the path Cassini followed obviously - creating the motion is far more complicated than stringing a series of images together. The path was chosen by me but all the images are from the spacecraft.
The real challenge though was creating it at this high resolution (32 times HiDef) for IMAX screens as Cassini takes 1024 x 1024 images - some of the composites used in this shot are 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. The processing takes place in 32-bit color which mean each frame is over 1 gigabyte of pixel data at 24 frames per second. What you are seeing here is very low rez even at 1080p.
Per the music, it's a strong choice and usually provokes a strong reaction, pro or con. But the emotion of the music is designed to work for this section of the film.
Thanks again to APOD for featuring and very nice to hear all the compliments here.
stephen
Guest wrote:gvannucci wrote:Redbone wrote:As others have mentioned, a lot of artistic freedom here. The moons do not move as we approach Saturn, Saturn does not rotate, which makes the movie seem less realistic. Still very cool.
This movie looks to me like a missed opportunity to show what Cassini's approach would have looked like.
If the Cassini team had taken my suggestions, it could have been done but they claim "science" is more important
Unfortunately, image data for that approach does not exist anyway - so it could only happen with CGI. The arrangement and placement of the moons is roughly correct. But the Cassini cameras have very long focal lengths and this is a crop/pan & scan of the IMAX 4:3 frame - thus the motion is a bit strange at times. Note, this was just a first footage clip I uploaded 10 months ago and had no idea would end up widely seen.
Stephen,
Tremendous work regardless of those that "PAN" the reality of the motion or lack there of. This is a marvelous accomplishment using the actual Cassini photos as the image source.
For those that wish to make derogitory comments on the work presented, try to reproduce the effort yourselves. The programs to do so are out there. If you can come up with something better, post it here.
[quote="Guest"]I'm the filmmaker....
Very honored to have my clip chosen. For the questions so far - this is an art film about space exploration. It's also a work-in-progress clip. This is not the path Cassini followed obviously - creating the motion is far more complicated than stringing a series of images together. The path was chosen by me but all the images are from the spacecraft.
The real challenge though was creating it at this high resolution (32 times HiDef) for IMAX screens as Cassini takes 1024 x 1024 images - some of the composites used in this shot are 10,000 x 10,000 pixels. The processing takes place in 32-bit color which mean each frame is over 1 gigabyte of pixel data at 24 frames per second. What you are seeing here is very low rez even at 1080p.
Per the music, it's a strong choice and usually provokes a strong reaction, pro or con. But the emotion of the music is designed to work for this section of the film.
Thanks again to APOD for featuring and very nice to hear all the compliments here.
stephen[/quote]
[quote="Guest"][quote="gvannucci"][quote="Redbone"]As others have mentioned, a lot of artistic freedom here. The moons do not move as we approach Saturn, Saturn does not rotate, which makes the movie seem less realistic. Still very cool.[/quote]
This movie looks to me like a missed opportunity to show what Cassini's approach would have looked like. [/quote]
If the Cassini team had taken my suggestions, it could have been done but they claim "science" is more important :)
Unfortunately, image data for that approach does not exist anyway - so it could only happen with CGI. The arrangement and placement of the moons is roughly correct. But the Cassini cameras have very long focal lengths and this is a crop/pan & scan of the IMAX 4:3 frame - thus the motion is a bit strange at times. Note, this was just a first footage clip I uploaded 10 months ago and had no idea would end up widely seen.[/quote]
Stephen,
Tremendous work regardless of those that "PAN" the reality of the motion or lack there of. This is a marvelous accomplishment using the actual Cassini photos as the image source.
For those that wish to make derogitory comments on the work presented, try to reproduce the effort yourselves. The programs to do so are out there. If you can come up with something better, post it here.