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. Subjects cover: Museum collections, field work, animal care, and community outreach.
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
Animation & Compositing Samples
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
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 3 - Animal Care
Video 2 - Field Work
Video 2 - Field Work
Video 2 - Field Work
Video 2 - Field Work
Video 1 - Collections
Video 1 - Collections
Video 1 - Collections
Video 1 - Collections
Video 4 - Community
Video 4 - Community
Video 4 - Community
Video 4 - Community
