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It's footage from BBC's 'Voyage to the Planets.'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/spaceodyssey/
Thanks - I think I need to check it out!
It's quite a good pseudo-documentary. The BBC spent quite a lot on it, and it shows.
Unfortunately, the programme also inspired/was remade as 'Defying Gravity.'
Not good? I just spotted Gravity while looking up Voyage and was wondering if it was worthwhile. Pretty average reviews.
Production design and execution are rather good; writing, characters, and a fair proportion of the acting rather poor.
The science...
Well, Hollywood strikes again. Still, if you like eye candy and Canadian women in spacesuits, it's probably worth your while.
Think I might stick with the BBC then, even bearing in mind the Canadians...
I love the low G way that the Marstronauts move. I couldn't say wether it's accurate though. They look like the guys on the moon which has 1/2 the gravity of Mars, 1/6 of Earth.
Lo-G (as opposed to Zero-G) has got to be one of the final frontiers when it comes to movie special effects. you can do motion capture for CGI at 1 G on Earth. You can even do motion capture for Zero G in a "vomit comet" plane that gives brief periods of Zero G.
But for low G, we just don't know how exactly people move, apart from the footage of the lunar landings. The low-G in the lunar landing footage has got to be one of the most compelling arguments against them being fake -- to the dickheads who just won't shut up. It's STILL, 40 years on, too hard to fake low G.
I would love to have someone smarter than me explain the physics of creatures larger than human. The Navi in Avatar are 3 metres tall. But then again they are on a world with lower G than Earth. Do these two factors add up to them moving just like regular-sized humans in normal gravity?
So true - they've got the astronauts moving at moon gravity. Nice that they made an attempt though I thought.
The Navi aren't really alien - and aren't supposed to be - they're pretty obviously just a metaphor - so physically and gravity-wise I pretty much ignored them - - but it was nice that Cameron generally ducked his head at a bit of science throughout the movie otherwise.
In terms of ludicrous sizing up - the 90's version of Godzilla was the biggest joke of them all. That thing could only have existed in moon-gravity - - earth gravity would have turned it too a puddle.
All these comments on Martian gravity and so few about your work.
I'll rectify that now:
From what I've seen, you're doing a magnificent job on the effects, and the cinematography looks inspired.
Good luck in the final stretch.
Finally, some simulated Mars gravity (from 1.08 - 1.22):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkXrpbOEWC4
Hmmm, now that I think about it, the aeroplane that flies the parabola to simulate 0 G could perhaps fly a parabola with a different geometry to simulate 1/3G. Still more challenging because most 0G simulations in movies are for enclosed spaces (ie inside spacecraft). Low G is more likely to be outside in a planetary environment.
I believe some movies have used the aeroplane technique to get a few seconds of 0G footage for the wow factor (Apollo 13 of course)
Zero G even effects the appearance of human faces, because there's no sag under gravity.
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