ARTemis| Putting the 'Art' in Artemis
Putting the 'Art' in Artemis
Mission : To Mars
Summary
An animated educational movie that communicates, informs, and inspires others about humanity's road to Mars through emotional scenes, presented by an attractive character of our creating, provide creative storytelling of the spacecraft timeline and its developments and the Artemis program. Beginning from Apollo missions to the moon, ending with sending humans to the Mars, we narrated the details of these human journeys such as the used equipment (rockets), duration and achievements during all these missions. Besides, we narrated the preparations NASA does for Artemis program and the instruments like the Gateway, the Onion and the (SLS) rocket incorporating with NASA's images and resources.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Our solution, the movie, developed a new entertainment way of presenting the achievements of human space flights to the Moon such as making bold new discoveries that will enable a richer understanding of the secrets that the Moon holds, through an animated movie in a simplified manner and showing the importance of these trips in the history of the evolution of human spaceflight, especially Mars. This encourages future generations to follow the current developments of Mars flights and work to develop them in the near future to take advantage of our solar planets, not just Mars.
The Project :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQH7xZEvgp8&t=6s
How We Developed This Project
Our team wanted to deliver knowledge, inspiration and entertainment at the same time. We found that there is no way to do so better than the language of art.
We developed our 2D animation film using different Adobe Software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and Adobe Animate and Adobe Character animator.
The project took several steps: the first one being sketching our narrator character on illustrator with its different movement sets. We also used illustrator for making the 2D Backgrounds used in the animation film. The second step is represented in creating the 2D animated background scenes using Adobe Animate. Then, we started to record the script voice and lip sync it with our Character using Adobe character animator. After that, we prepared and edited the photos from NASA resources using Adobe photoshop. Then we collected all the work to make the final video film on Adobe Premiere Pro.
We faced some problems in the audio quality, but we used Adobe Premiere to reduce the noise and audio errors. The final video was completed with high-quality animations and appealing narration of the story.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Undoubtedly, NASA's resources and materials were our tutors and the guide during our Knowledge journey, the resources helped us in reciting Apollo missions timeline, duration and equipment. Also, In preparing the part of Artemis program, NASA provides us with all needed images and videos. NASA gives us all information and images about the preparations, the onion, the Gateway, the Space launch system and the lunar orbit. Also, we have discussed Moon to Mars overview incorporating with NASA sites. Also, some resources influenced our projects like ESA and The Aerospace Corporation.
Project Demo
The Demo :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K4Jgi2dmTofD9C1UsgiVLCPYgsatxiS6/view?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
The Main Resources :
The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle | the NSSDCA | NASA:
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_lrv.html
NASA's image gallery :
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html
The Moon | NASA :
https://www.nasa.gov/moon
Moon To Mars Overview | NASA :
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars/overview
Additional resources :
A Brief History of Space Exploration | The Aerospace Corporation :
https://aerospace.org/article/brief-history-space-exploration
Why go to Mars? | European Space Agency :
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/Why_go_to_Mars