ScienceCasts: Massive Cloud on Collision Course with the Milky Way
More crack animation for NASA and the Sciencecast series.
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ScienceCasts: NASA Spacecraft Fly in Record-setting Formation
Four NASA spacecraft have performed a thrilling maneuver to understand the physics of explosive reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere. More first rate AfterEffects work in play here. Where does NASA get such top notch animation? I wonder.
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Airdrop: How Apple made my life easier
As a driving member of the V! Studios social media team, posting engaging content presents a host of challenges. Without considering contextual merits of a post, actually posting the content shouldn’t stand as a blocker. Posting photos and videos from any given platform is fairly simple and straightforward. Take a picture or capture a video,…
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ScienceCasts: To Bennu and Back
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch on a mission to orbit, map and collect samples from the asteroid Bennu, and return to Earth 7 years later.
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Polite Rendering While You Work
Here at V! Studios, we try to use our resources as efficiently as possible, as long as it doesn’t interfere with getting the job done. One of those resources is obviously computing horsepower, especially when it comes to rendering 3D and 2D images and animations. While we do have a wonderfully auto-scalable cloud-based…
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AWS VPC Networking demystified : Part 1 – VPC IP Addressing and Routing
This is the first of a three part series on how Amazon’s VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) networking works, and how to create a VPC and provision resources within a it. First things first, what is a VPC? Amazon’s VPC documentation explains it this way : “Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch Amazon…
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ScienceCasts: A Spectacular Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter
Great animation to illustrate Venus and Jupiter converging for a spectacular conjunction in the sunset sky on August 27th.
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Creating a realistic Milky Way in C4D without particles.
Making a realistic galaxy in C4D with particle systems can be tedious and lead to costly render times. Fortunately, there’s another method that’s much easier to setup and very render friendly. Step 1. The below Milky Way image can be downloaded from NASA’s website. Step 2. Open C4D and add a basic disc object to…
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ScienceCasts: Strong Magnetic Fields Found Inside Stars
Great animation work in this short piece from Science@NASA that illustrates researchers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope have found evidence of strong magnetic fields in the cores of stars–a finding that could upset theories of stellar evolution.
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ScienceCasts: Methane Stinks? On Earth, Mars, and Beyond
NASA is sniffing out the sweet smell of methane on Earth, Mars and beyond. It’s a greenhouse gas and, in some places, possibly a sign of ancient life.