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Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 05:24 PM
this is a project I have been working on for quite some time. (almost two months) For the Museum of Natural History in New York City. All together almost three full minutes of animation t be displayed in the Hall of Meteorites Theater. This shot was compleated in 2 eight hour days from start to finish. It was done in house.http://www.villagephotos.com/viewimage.asp?id_=4743258
Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 05:30 PM
it's a sequence...
Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 05:31 PM
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Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 05:34 PM
err...3
Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 05:41 PM
4...
Well their you have it. Sorry about all the posts but I havnt had time to update my web site yet... and in turn must post these images at a rediuliously low res. But I hope you like them.

later guys.
Delucubus
09-04-2003, 05:58 PM
looking pretty cool man, the one thing you really want to mess with is the trail at the end.

here's a picture I found that might explain why.

http://www.utpb.edu/ceed/GeologicalResources/West_Texas_Geology/Images/meteorite.jpg

If it is burning up as it goes through the atmosphere like you're showing with the front of your meteorite then, like the picture, there would be a trail of smoke and debree burning off.
Scott Harris
09-04-2003, 06:26 PM
Thanks a lot, that picture is pretty cool. Yeah I have been trying to shuffle through books and talk to the geologists that work here at the museum ... there is a lage flare that occurs for only a split second when these things enter the atmosphere...

This is actually a 12 second animation clip that goes through the whole process... I wish I could show it for crit... hopefully soon I will be able too.

You wouldn't believe the difference between an iron based, and rock based meteor as it enters the atmosphere ... its really crazy and over 4 billion tons of this material enters the earth every year!
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