R/V Endeavor Animations
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Faculty:
Professors Steven Carey and Harladur Sigurdsson The Endeavor Expedition 2006 is a short animation designed for 2 professors. Professors Haraldur Siggurdsson and Steve Carey, wanted an animation to show what the island of Santorini looked like before the massive eruption and the subduction of the islands central area. Professor Dwight Coleman needed an animation for the Endeavor website that highlighted the different technologies that the crew aboard the Endeavor would be using to study the islands underwater geological formations. The two videos were produced at Fogarty at the 3D Animation Science Facility. The main application used was the 3D software Autodesk Maya. The island of Santorini was reproduced from a DEM (Digital Elevation Map) and imported into Maya. The modelling of the Endeavor, Echo and the Satellite were done by Greg Kiernan. And the Hercules model was loaned to us from the Graduate School of Oceanography. The main rendering engine used was Mental Ray and Maya Software, which took roughly 10 days of active computation to complete. The final still images were composited and fixed slightly in Adobe After Effects and then brought into the Avid Media Composer where post production and editing and sound effects were added. |
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Quicktime player is needed to view the above animations. These videos may take a while to download, please be patient. |
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| The Endeavor technology animation was entered in to the 2006 URI Visualizations where it won 1st Place in the Animation category and the Fred Joyal Best in Show Award. Over the Summer of 2006 it was also screened at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. | |
For more information on any of the above projects, please contact Roy Bergstrom.
