NASA is able to show us how its missions are carried out with graphic movies( like the one often used to show the landing of SPIRIT and OPPURTUNITY on the marsian surface). how can i make such movies? i mean the software used?
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Your question got me all confused. Not the question itself but the answer. I am a longtime user of Alias wavefronts Maya software. It is one of the industries best 3d modelling and animation packages. The main competition is 3d Studio Max from Discreet logic. NASA, or rather the company that NASA uses to produce their simulations, probably use one of these products. But just now, to my horror, I found that Autodesk, the company that owns Discreet logic and 3Ds Max, has bought Alias Wavefront that produces Maya! So it is in competition with itself! I had no idea. I don´t know what this means but developing two so similar products hardly seems sound. One of them will be cancelled and get incorporated with the other. I have no idea what is going on.
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The software used in this movies ( at least in LOTR) is Maya.\nYou can find it on webpage listed down. You can get a trial version for free but it shows watermarks on everything you make
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The evidence  against is actually proof. The Moon, rocket fuel, etc. all would act differently than Hollywood could anticipate. \nSee Skeptics Magazine and Skeptical Inquirer for pros and cons.\nFor instance, the hammer on the astronaut's belt swings as it would in a lower gravity. It looks fake, but shows they are in a lower gravity.\nThings like inertial guidance system use in airliners, scientific papers all would be hard to fake and who would have thought to write them otherwise?
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Have you tried Blender its free and hundreds of online tutorials but would take a little time invested but you could make full lenght computer animations like Ice age type stuff not as good as that but good
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This is a fun topic!\n\nSpecial effects can be done in a ton of different ways, and there are all kinds of different articles and support groups out there that can help you do research. One of the first special effects used on film was to have the camera on a tripod not moving, have a person talking then stop the camera have the person move off screen then start the camera again.The person appears to have vanished. This type of effect is an OPTICAL EFFECT. It is done in the camera using the nature of film and video to produce an illusion. \n\nAs far as shooting miniatures and CHROMA KEYING you can use the Chroma Key effect in premiere to select the color that you want to eliminate and remove from the picture. The key to that is making sure the color you choose is evenly lit. (If it is not, then the wall will appear different colors to the computer and it will eliminate only part of what you are trying to get rid of!)\n\nCheck out back issues of videomaker magazine for articles on how to do optical and digital special effects, as well as the professional websites from ILM,WETA,Jim Henson Company. They have changed the name but their used to be a program called Alam DV that had a good website, if you search the name you can find the new software.\n\nI would use I movie to edit, movie maker isn't that powerful and I movie has some built in special effects.\n\nAs far as getting the DVD into your computer you need some type of video ripper to get your video into your computer. I have heard that their are free programs out there but I do not know what they are. \n\nYou might be better off seeing if you could borrow a mini DV camera and a firewire cable from your school.\n\nWikkipedia online has good information about the history of special effects as well.\n\nHope that helps,\nTony\n\nPs. the television show NOVA had a great episode on special effects, as well as the the extended edition of the Mummy DVD under the making of has great info about ILM as does the commentary by Stephen Somers and The actors.
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My movie will be a science fiction space opera featuring humanity leaving earth to establish colonies in far away star systems. It focuses on human developement, terraforming new planets and also the struggles of a new age. I would like to see Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman among the many stars to act in it.
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We know what the surface of venus looks like, the Magellan spacecraft already mapped it (altitude wise), and the Soviets landed a couple of probes on the surface a long time ago.\n\nThe new craft will not tell us what the surface looks like, you can't get any visible light info from the surface due to the thick clouds.\n\nThe ESA's stated scientific objectives for the missions are:\n    * What is the mechanism and what is the driving force of the super-rotation of the atmosphere?\n    * What are the basic processes in the general circulation of the atmosphere?\n    * What is the composition and chemistry of the lower atmosphere and the clouds?\n    * What is the past and present water balance in the atmosphere?\n    * What is the role of the radiative balance and greenhouse effect in the past present and future evolution of the planet?\n    * Is there currently volcanic and/or tectonic activity on the planet?
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Hi. This is how NASA does it : http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02nov_1.htm
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you can always use flash or corel presentations (i think you have to export it) or windows movie maker
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You need to have a movie editor like adobe premiere or windows movie maker. I use adobe but some people say it is more convenient to use movie maker.
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http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001035.html\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_527.html\nhttp://history.nasa.gov/SP-4012/vol3/table4.123.htm\nhttp://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/Programs/intelsat.html\n\nFrom these photos and data, you should be able to make your diagrams.
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www.flashplayer.com/games/stickanimator.html \n\nhttp://www.soft14.com/Graphic_Painting_and_Drawing/Animation/Pivot_Stickfigure_Animator_7670_Review.html\n\nthose two are the best for actually making movies. they are easy to use and can easily be converted into several file formats. There are many others if you actually want to watch them!\nbest of luck
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I once heard that NASA supports a program for investigating the human brain and how to control it, as well as ESPERs. I'm not sure though.
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In space shuttle there are cameras; The movement of space shuttle is watched and controlled by EArth stations by means of electro- magnetic comunicatoin and computers.\n\nA click on the mouse will focus the camera and another click will take picture.
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I did a model of Mars once using a very large popcorn bowl and papier maiche.  No idea how to spell that, but any craft store will have it.  It made a nice hemisphere.  It's be pretty easy to stick toothpicks in the wet stuff as foundations and then use foil or something around it...\n\nWe also threw small rocks at the wet plaster to make craters....
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enjoy it \nhttp://www.imovieplugins.com/
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I think you're talking about how the movie is edited, right? If you watch the credits it will usually say at the end. I remember how excited I was to see at the end of one of the Star Trek movies that it was edited on the same program that I learned to edit movies on -- NewTek Video Toaster!