Stars Vision

We always prefer to start the project by briefly creating a detailed storyboard, which allows us to work out the episodes and transitions before we get into the whole production process. By the end of this very first stage we can see if the story we are about to visualise is looking clear, diverse and captivating. So once again, the whole script was built on the paper at the very beginning of the project.

The foretaste of something impressive, an intrigue of something groundbreaking — those were the feelings we wanted the viewer to experience when the show starts. To meet those vibes we came up with the dome which is opening slowly and stately, gently dipping the audience into the endless mind bending vastness of space.

Here we were challenged to illustrate the power of human’s imagination, growing and evolving from a tiny little point to an exuberant structure full of colours and shades, filling up the whole dome at once. Having in mind the infinity of one’s imagination, we decided to use fractal patterns in this episode.

It was our intention to immerse the viewer deeper into the space, and to reach that goal we created a flight through the cloud tunnel. Factoring in all of the technical issues of the dome projection mapping, we achieved the whole feeling of flight.

This scene is about astronomy science. We aimed to avoid familiar images and well-known shapes, so we’ve produced an astonishing composition of dimensional metamorphosis.

Since ancient times human stared at the sky visualising something more than just stars. They sought for regularities, combining stars into patterns and known shapes, they poeticised the heaven trying to solve the mystery of the dark lure space. This is our vision of the episode.

Human vision os the first tool used to explore the enchanting vastness of space. The knowledge of sky studying is an easy and interesting skill, just as the learning of the knew language. We intended to create an image of a human eye which would not be recognised from the very beginning, but as the story goes.

The moon is an outstanding and fascinating object itself. One can observe it forever. We decided to show all of its beauty as closely and detailed as the construction of the dome allowed us.

We were inspired by the real pictures of the sky which were made using an extremely long exposure - a half of the year. If you look at those pictures, you’d see the trails that the sun left while moving around the earth - that’s how you notice the change of its trajectory through the year. Being astonished by this effect we’ve decided to show it in this episode about the movement of the sun.

Here we wanted the audience to land into a peculiar point of view which you’d never succeed to hit in real life. Our viewer appears to get into the center of the meteor shower. The sparkling stars are crashing down right into the viewer’s point of view, which gives us an outstanding visual effect.

The complex organisation and construction of the solar system is a lead theme of this episode, and our intensions were to show it as abstract and uncommonly as we could imagine. At the same time we wanted to represent authentically the physics indications such as the speed of planets’ rotation and etc.

The plot of the show leads us to the story of different celestial bodies, which the space consists of. To visualise it we came up with a bunch of different colourful balls filling up the whole dome. The shining balls stand up for the stars and comets, the dark ones are the planets, satellites and asteroids.

Human fell in love with the stars. How do they shine and reflect the light? To become the beauty of the night and its silence surrounding us, and to help finding the ways and directions.

Since ancient times a man identified stars as familiar objects from his real life such as animals and plants. He saw the sky as a patch full of shapes, pictures and signs, so he gave them names like Scorpio, Libra and Pisces.

This scene stands for the importance of the astronomy science in the life of ancient Arab nation and how it helped them to navigate their convoys through the endless desert of the sea.

We go on with a story about a role of astronomy science in the Arab nation history. Our idea was to put the audience inside the gigantic armillary sphere. We wanted to stay closer to the traditional visual look of those sphere but at the same time we decided to light this scene up with some technology details, so we came up with an original gold sci-fi look here.

Here goes an episode which narrates the viewer of the ways to find directions through the example of well-known constellations — the Big and the Small Dipper. We also explain how to find the Northern star.

To end the show we created a tremendously powerful scene, which serves to provide a mind-bending effect on the audience. A milky way, gracefully whirling above the observers’ heads is closing up the show in the most eye-catching way.