And here it is – the Восход-Д video finally released! Crank up the volume and watch it in HD!
The soundtrack is 8 Bit No Tamashi, by LukHash (from the album Digital Memories), downloadable for free from their website or from Jamendo.
Sound effects come from the Freesound library. Союз radio communications were downloaded from here (after a lot of scrolling). For those out there who want to know it all, the voice over the intro says ‘Attention: Moscow speaks and trasnsmits in video‘.
Most textures and backgrounds are mainly designed by me in The GIMP, but I also downloaded a few of them from CGtextures. Planet textures are from NASA/JPL’s Solar System Simulator 3D resources, Earth color, heightmap, specularity and cloud textures come from NASA’s Earth Observatory and its Blue Marble – Next Generation project.
Modeling, animation and video compositing were all done in Blender – a lot of thanks go to Andrew Price, author of Blender Guru, for his amazing tutorials.
The design of the spacecraft has been helped a lot by the Atomic Rockets website, maintained by one Nyrath of whom I don’t know much more than this.
I started this project around february, this year. My estimates say it took about 900 hours to complete (37 days), at the end of which I find my computer cluttered with 7 Blender files, over 150 textures and nearly 8 thousand rendered frames.
You’ll find information on how I put this together here. The clip is also available on Vimeo.
