Project 3: Fractal space

Aesthetic

For this piece I wanted to reflect the colorful beauty of outer space. I believe I achieved that with the latter half of my video with the different nebulae. The beginning animations have a more "computer graphic" look while the nebulae look more painterly and a lot like actual nebulae. I chose some ambient music as the soundtrack to the piece because I believe it reflects the ethereal aspect of space and the quiet beauty that is presented. The music chosen has some sampling from the movie Contact. It is taken from the part of the movie where Jodie Foster's character goes through the wormhole and arrives at the alien world and she says "I had no idea" because she is shocked by the beauty. So this kind of adds some more to the theme of the piece.

Conceptual

I wanted to take fractal flames and make a space-themed video out of them. So the flames would represent things like galaxies, suns, and nebulae.

Technical

On this piece I used Apophysis to create fractal flames with a space theme. Apophysis 2.09, the Flam3 renderer, and the RenderFlam3 script were used to create the animated fractal flame sequences at the beginning of the video, the galaxy-like animation and the sun animation (which is 2 animations, so 3 in total). Apophysis 2.08 3D hack version was used to create the nebulae seen in the latter part of the video. Each nebula consists of 3 fractal flames layered on top of each other in After Effects plus a star field layered behind that, which was also created in Apophysis. The fractal flames were layered in 3D and a camera was used to get some motion and a sense of parallax.