7. Getting practical

Here are some practical tests I have been doing in maya.

Ancient Light 

I crated an animated sun using the particle effects in Maya after watching these two tutorial on Gaseous effects.

I want to combine this with other emitters to possibly create and animated 2D image that has the depth of a 3D image. Also could make this one of the final layers of information that are build up on the visualisation of the atom creating a spectacle of - atom - reaction - sun . This would aim to build upon the theory that if you show a base of information it allows you to build on that knowledge imagining the process and applying that on a grander scale.

Here is a render of the sun I made below, and further down is a comparison to real images of the sun. I think to make it more realistic i could add glow effects and add further white into the mix of colours used to create it. I envisage this as a 3D poster on a science corridor, inspiring interest and - combined with the poster concept of ancient light- give fact/ though provoking ideas.

Here is the animation of the sun, I think it works quite well and could look really interesting with more work on it. Also i wondered if the sun made a noise and found out that it resonates and a super low frequency, so I thought it would be good to maybe have that over the top of the animation, as it would give even more interest to the piece.