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CURRENT Winter 2011 Fundraiser: rockethub.com/projects/4649-outside-in-mini-fundraiser-imax-space-film

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 IMAX 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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  • Wow, I thought it looked great before. What a difference.
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  • stephen v2 plus 1 year ago
    Yeah, it makes a huge difference. Before CS5, no fly through the rings in color. The whole process just feel apart in 8-bit color (which is all I could use in CS4 at those frame size with images that large)
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  • Kurt Lancaster plus 1 year ago
    Excellent job and very moving.
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  • Nicky Smith plus 1 year ago
    Excellent work!
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  • Durtymac plus 1 year ago
    Wow Amazing quality. Id hate to wait for that render to finish
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  • stephen v2 plus 1 year ago
    Render times have massively improved under CS5 - what took hours per frame has become minutes per frame. Still, the film will take several months to render (though I will be doing it bits, not all at once.
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  • Corey Salyards 1 year ago
    What is the song in the video?
  • ktx 11 months ago
    Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, op.11
    Coincidentally, it was played at the funeral of Albert Einstein.
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  • stephen v2 plus 1 year ago
    Adagio for Strings
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  • Robert Odendaal 1 year ago
    Awesome. Beyond awesome. I need this for my band. We do sci-fi inspired music and these visuals are so sick!
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  • stephen v2 plus 1 year ago
    Robert,

    Thanks! Send me a email and we can discuss. I have some footage that bands have used although I can't necessarily do all the footage for various reasons.
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  • Peder Norrby pro 11 months ago
    amazing!
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Thanks very much! For some other sections of the film, I very much rely on your amazing plugins.
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  • Drew Geraci plus 11 months ago
    Brilliant work - Love what you've done. Can't wait to see the rest! Keep up the great work!
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  • Mat Recardo 11 months ago
    Excellent work!

    I'd love to see some behind the scenes material on this. how it was made etc.
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Thanks Mat. At some point I will get around to that but swamped right now with the actual filmmaking. I do plan on starting some vlogging here soon about - so stay tuned.
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  • Justin Ho 11 months ago
    spectacular!
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  • Christopher Getner plus 11 months ago
    Inspiring and just damn fun to watch. My 3 year old keeps asking to "see Saturn fly" :-)
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  • Robby Cornish 11 months ago
    wow!
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  • Dave Brown 11 months ago
    The music (Adagio) is by Samuel Barber. I seem to recall it being indicated the music was originally written for another instrument (e.g. piano). Hence the 'for strings' designation.

    The music is also used (quite well) in the movie Platoon (winner of [I believe] 7 Academy Awards). The movie had quite the cast, and that cast included Charlie Sheen.
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  • √an Lu 11 months ago
    2.15 enigmatic enceladus moon...
    apod.nasa.gov/apod/
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  • KrisWW 11 months ago
    That's just gorgeous.

    And the geek in me was thrilled to see the Deathstar at 1:33...
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  • trish 11 months ago
    So beautiful. Have you thought of using Holst's Saturn from The Planets as a soundtrack? Or is that too obvious?
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    thank you. i did consider early on Holst's but for this section of film, Adagio works best. But there is a full solar system flythrough in another part of the film and some version of Holst's work will be there.
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  • monty ongkeo 11 months ago
    Beautiful, no word can truly describe it.
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  • Admar 11 months ago
    amazing!
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  • wojteksz 11 months ago
    So beautiful. Glad we have possibility to see something like That.
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  • Wow, that was good stuff!
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  • StevenBrisson 11 months ago
    Out of this world beautiful, and a stunning achievement in both effort & filmmaking.
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  • Terry Hughes plus 11 months ago
    Well down!
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  • Jason Giaccone 11 months ago
    Totally amazing. Do you have anything written about your process? Are we seeing the track of Cassini's progress through space?
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    There is a bit on my blog and an old video on Youtube (linked off my site) called "Why Not 3D?". But this flythrough is just my artistic exploration of the actual photograph linked above in the description. Cassini does not point a camera forward and take thousands of images, so creating this is actually very challenging.
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  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Thanks so much for the kind words from all - this has been very exciting for me.
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  • Terje Nesthus 11 months ago
    Fantastic movie :)
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  • Alex York plus 11 months ago
    Astounding! Keep up the fantastic work!
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  • David Connolly 11 months ago
    Fantastic, very moving
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  • Floyd Buettner 11 months ago
    Great Movie! And I love the music also!
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  • Melina Obando 11 months ago
    Why are the rings cut up on one side of the planet?
    Amazing video I must add...
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Good question - that is Saturn's shadow when seen from that angle.
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  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Thanks all!
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  • Lee Shamblin 11 months ago
    I can't add much to what's been said. Perhaps it's your use of "Adagio For Strings". Maybe it's the gracious beauty of Saturn himself. But it leaves me speechless and inspired.
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  • FlyBoy 11 months ago
    Wow! Extremely cool!
    Do you follow the actual trajectory of Cassini-Huygens?
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Great question. Actually, no. Cassini does not actually take continuous images ahead. What I've done (since this is an art film) is take the photograph (link above in description) and create a flythrough using many other images Cassini has taken. It's kind of the only way to do it - necessity is the mother of invention here - if you only want to use real photographs.
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  • Zia Peroni 11 months ago
    Stunning! It makes Saturn all the more mystical. Thank you! :)
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  • Sheer Zed 11 months ago
    The film we have all been waiting for. Thank you.
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  • Heiner Weigand 11 months ago
    It's a wonderful film. From which movie did you take the soundtrack?
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    It's Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Used in a couple of other movies but not score music. In the final film, I'm working on more orchestral version of it.
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  • Chris White 11 months ago
    Breathtaking. Sublime.
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  • garish 11 months ago
    cool
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  • Petro1986 11 months ago
    Sorry, the music made me thing of The Elephant Man, there is some odd perspective shifts but it might be because of the movement of the camera and how there isn't and mass to the rings.
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    The music is the film will be same composition but different instrumentation/arrangement for just that reason.

    The odd perspective shifts are somewhat due this be a crop/pan&scan from 4:3 IMAX image and partially due to limitations of images data using only photographs.
  • Petro1986 11 months ago
    Still might impressive! I wish you the best of luck and I will be looking out for it in the UK :-)
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  • ghis 11 months ago
    Magnifique. It reminds me a lovely passage from Arthur C. Clarke when the spaceship is en route to Jupiter. The same sensation of awe and tranquility. Nice editing (how long dit it take you ?) and choice of music.
  • stephen v2 plus 11 months ago
    Thanks so much. It took several years on and off to figure out how to create the motion from Cassini Images at such high resolution.
  • ghis 11 months ago
    That's what I call passion at its core. Looking forward to it.
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  • Mu Raad 11 months ago
    Wooow! what an inspiration!
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  • SuperFred Jaboffo 11 months ago
    I'm stunned by the beauty
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  • Edison Aunca 10 months ago
    Just awesome, congratulations for this great video. :D
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  • Zach Stamey plus 8 months ago
    amazing. I feel exhausted just thinking about how much work went into getting this from start to finish.
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  • Tommy Davis 6 months ago
    One of the most amazing pieces I've ever witnessed.
  • stephen v2 plus 6 months ago
    Thanks very much! Just started a campaign to help make the IMAX full length version: indiegogo.com/OUTSIDE-IN-IMAX-in-a-Basement
  • Brendan 5 months ago
    Wish this was on kickstarter, it's such a shame it hasn't got more publicity.
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  • Martin Eriksen 6 months ago
    .. I don't get it.
  • stephen v2 plus 6 months ago
    Not much to get. It's thousands of Cassini photographs animated to full motion set to music.
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  • Babs N 5 months ago
    This is truly a work of art. NASA should have hired you years ago to help celebrate their work. If they didn't have to depend on the government, maybe the Space Shuttle would still be flying. Bravo to you and all of the future scientist you inspire to fly to the stars.
  • stephen v2 plus 5 months ago
    Thanks! One of my hopes is to keep the source material open so that it can be used by others to continue to inspire interest in space exploration.
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  • Karel's Test Videos 5 months ago
    Really awesome! Wish I could see this in IMAX format. Keep up the good work!
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  • LivingDesign 5 months ago
    This amazing piece of work has been shared on LivingDesign.info - livingdesign.info/2011/09/15/outside-in-by-stephen-van-vuuren/
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