{"id":4902,"date":"2017-01-08T10:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2017-01-08T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T18:14:35","slug":"animation-making-champagne-supernovae-in-the-tub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/08\/animation-making-champagne-supernovae-in-the-tub\/","title":{"rendered":"Animation: Making champagne supernovae in the tub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CGI is for wimps! Who needs fancy particle systems when you\u2019ve got ink, water, and After Effects?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By only using an aquarium, ink and water, <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/17\/01\/a-beautiful-aquarium-supernova\">this film<\/a> is also an attempt to represent the giant with the small without any computed generated imagery.\u00a0As a tribute to Kubrick or Nolan&#8217;s filmography, Novae is a cosmic poem that want to introduce the viewer to the nebulae&#8217;s infinite beauty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/189562895?badge=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I find the making-of to be the really interesting part:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/185305778\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a second peek:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/189317755\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the way, if these visuals are up your alley, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyoverview.com\/fiftyseven\">this entry<\/a> on The Daily Overview, &#8220;a massive bloom of cyanobacteria\u2014more than 100 square kilometers\u2014in the Baltic Sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/NewImage-3.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"478\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGI is for wimps! Who needs fancy particle systems when you\u2019ve got ink, water, and After Effects? By only using an aquarium, ink and water, this film is also an attempt to represent the giant with the small without any computed generated imagery.\u00a0As a tribute to Kubrick or Nolan&#8217;s filmography, Novae is a cosmic poem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4904,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}