Forth draft animation

I used 7 images for this animation.

Idea: Take all the things that worked from the other drafts while removing all the things that didn't! Also, I wanted to stay 'on message' with the concept, now I understand it a bit better. Most of the techniques used in this video have been used in previous drafts, but in different ways and different configurations.

Form: In the second animation draft where I tried to emulate the forms of the planet, with the spot and the line clouds , didn't work and looked really cheesey. The photographs already have beautiful forms, but they don't have colour or movement, so I decided to add colour and movement to reflect Jupiter, while keeping the forms of the original images.

Colours: After sharpening and applying a contrast curve, the photographs were coloured. The three major colours of Jupiter are beige/brown, white and dark red. The colourless photographs were recoloured to match those: first, the whole thing is 'colourized' to beige/brown; the high-luminance parts were then recoloured using 'Change to Color' to make them white and washed out (I also slightly changed the hue to a purple that seemed to fit well at the edges of the spots). Likewise, the very dark parts were recoloured to red.

Movement: Each photograph moves slowly horizontally in the frame, behind the circular clipping mask, to emulate planetary rotation. A subtle liquid effect is applied to give the surface forms a little bit of movement, like rolling storm clouds--the effect used was 'turbulence displacement', set to warp only vertically. Each image layer is staggered over time and the opacity animated, just like in all the other videos; however, the blending mode was change to 'Exclusive' (instead of 'Screen') so the images interact with each other in more interesting ways during the transitions.

Sound: The animation is about 1min and 20sec long.The original sound from NASA is only 45 sec. I asked one of my friend who is an Electronic music composer to make it one long sound that matches the video length and positioned so the intense parts of the sound match the intense parts of the video (large white sections).

The Jupiter sound wav file from the NASA website was looped and crossfaded (i.e., the end of one loop blends into the beginning of the next loop) .

Eye's Planet Phenomenon 4th draft from Arezoo niknafs on Vimeo.