Creative Direction, Concept Development, Motion, Editing, Compositing, Audio Mixing

Completion Date - 2025

Daily Planet Theater

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences - Raleigh, NC

Four short films to be projected onto a 30 foot tall curved surface, viewable from three levels.

Challenges

  • Scale of content

  • Warped surface

  • Irregular resolution

  • Trapezoidal projection area

  • Necessary slow visual speeds to prevent motion sickness

  • Multiple view angles

Moodboard

Animation Solutions

  • Pre-production test videos for scale, position, speed, distortion, and text size viewed on-site.

  • Fully rigged via expressions, scalable 3D cube composited into video using Mocha Pro 3D tracking system.

  • Physics particle simulation to render colored smoke, composited into After Effects comp with color leaching out of 3D model of a crayfish.

  • Used After Effects’ new GLB import feature to track 2D animated location pins to a rotating Earth model.

  • Expression-linked a high volume of shape layer properties to single slider controls for ease of animation and revision.

  • Many instances of 2.5D animation for rotation and parallax effects.

  • Composited videos to create look of screen reflection in child’s eye.

Storyboards

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