It’s a labor of love: using hundreds of thousands of real images taken by NASA’s Cassini, Galileo, Voyager, and other space exploration missions to create a stunning feature-length, high-definition IMAX movie that showcases the beauty of our Solar System on the big screen like never before. This is the achievement of “In Saturn’s Rings,” a project by filmmaker Stephen van Vuuren that’s been years in the making and, based on this latest teaser trailer, beautifully executed.
The footage is made entirely from real photographs using Ken Burns-style photoanimation and multiplane photoanimation. No computer-generated images, painting, cloning, tweening, morphing, texture maps, camera projection or 3D models were used… even the “stargate” titles are made using photos – an 8,000-photo mosaic of all-sky zoomed really fast gives the blurred appearance. And, according to van Vuuren, “a computer is actually not even required to do this – it could all be done exactly using photoanimation techniques from 100 years ago.”
(Of course 100 years ago, touring Saturn with a nuclear-powered spacecraft was only a distant sci-fi dream!)
Learn more about the non-profit In Saturn’s Rings film project on the official website here, and help get the ‘real’ orchestral score recorded (Adagio for Strings by the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra) by donating to the Kickstarter campaign here.
“A film is – or should be – more like music than fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings.”
– Stanley Kubrick
In theaters summer 2014.
Lights in the Dark 
Wondeful !!
The trailer is also beautiful as the music.
Jeff Barani from Vence (France)
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One word sums that video up: WOW!
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