You need to upgrade your Flash Player The theme of this blog is not only and obviously space, but in particular “terrestrial worlds”, places that tend to have surfaces on which one could walk or at least attach oneself to. These places sometimes also have other earth-like familiar features such as atmospheres, weather, volcanos, geysers and perhaps, we are finding, even exotic oceans, rivers or lakes that are not necessarily made of familiar materials we are used to here at home. The second theme is imagery. Occasionally I do some retouching of images when needed if an image is incomplete or sometimes “dirty” or noisy. I will attempt to correct image shortcomings based upon other images or well-accepted presumed attributes. When this is done, notes will be offered as to what was added, why and sometimes how it was done. This way no one should ever wonder if something they are looking at is real or photoshop.
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What Is “Outside In” the Movie?

Titan from Saturn’s Rings from “Outside In”

Not totally sure what this film will be like, but the potential of someone using the best imagery of the Cassini mission to create 3 dimensional environments set to music seems quite exciting. There’s not a ton of animation on the site, but what there is seems pretty good (despite the numerous screen shots of the back of someone’s head watching various pop stars?!). The above image is a still sample of what one would hope would represent the majority of what might be coming. Go to outsideinthemovie.com and check out the clips in the WATCH section, especially the “Basement IMAX” one which explains part of what he is attempting. But in order to make it happen, it seems donations are in order. Open up your wallet and help make it happen or take part in the process by submitting some images of yourself as requested by the creator (see the SUPPORT section).

Image Note: According to the film maker, “There is no computer-generated imagery in the film. No 3D models, no texture-mapping or any other rendered data. The only thing that has been done is taking many actual photos (including some high resolution mosaics) and using some very special and computer-intensive processing to create the feeling of depth and movement”.

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One Response to “What Is “Outside In” the Movie?”

  1. stephen v2 Says:
    July 15th, 2007 at 11:49 pm

    Thanks a bunch for profiling the film - much appreciated. As for your questions, the majority of the film is space imagery - big bang, solar system, moon, mars and a major Saturn/Titan sequence that his the final third of the film. The “pop stars” is an early section of the film called “Zeitgeist” which explores our obsession with images of celebrities (”stars”) vs. the real stars. It ends badly for the celebs, BTW :)

    The film is being done in 32-bit processing to maintain the natural light of color of reality (but that quadruples storage and processing time).

    Items like the big bang etc. that have not been photographed are built using tens of thousand of single photographs of stars, galaxies etc.

    The mission of the film is to present these amazing photographs from Cassini, their visual integrity maintained, in full motion while asking the question “Why explore space?”

    Again, thanks so much for the support - great blog, BTW.

    stephen v2
    http://www.outsideinthemovie.com

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