Look around!
ALCOA presented this Virtual Reality piece at the 2016 summer Farnborough International Airshow to rave audience reviews and hours-long waiting line. Design company Digital Illusions commissioned me for MAYA animation, AFTER EFFECTS compositing and VR 360 stitching of the history of flight segments.
Shot design, layout, final modeling, textures, shaders, animation, lighting, and compositing by yours truly, Isa Alsup. Additional super-graphics were added in post by Digital Illusion, who also did a final grading and added additional shots to complete the piece.
Throughout the project, Ann DeVilbiss at Digital Illusions and Chuck Chubbuck at C-Squared Communications maintained unwavering confidence and inspirational creative and production leadership throughout a tough schedule with the usual management of client changes and approval process.
 |
| History of Aviation 360 frame without VR viewer |
Visualizing the history of aviation
- and ALCOA's important role
In my shots, our super camera flies through the scene following the Wright Flyer, the Spirit of Saint Louis and a DC-3 aircraft before encountering the Orion spacecraft. Viewers can look around this virtual scene, checking out the other aircraft coming from behind and sides, or follow the main aircraft. After the Orion encounter we journey through a jet engine, then the camera pulls back and through the fuselage of the commercial airliner as it assembles mid-air around us before zipping up and away...
