ALMA observatory

[mt_sabao]

Hi,
Some might remember I had some problems while working on this last year.
Anyway here's one of the final animations.

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/videos/hd_broadcast_720p25/almaanimation2.mov

The animation is not done in terragen, Just rendered a big image, and camera mapped it onto the lowres geometry in cinema4D, where the antennas were added and also the animation. Thanks for watching.

Cheers
Luis.

[mt_sabao]

http://www.eso.org/public/videos/almaanimation2/ other formats here

and a second animation here http://www.eso.org/public/videos/almaanimation1/

[inkydigit]

very nice, the hi res mov isworth the wait...looks great, are the models freeware? and are the small discs on the ground solar panels?
cheers
Jason

[mt_sabao]

Thanks. The  Disks are the radio telescopes. They will act as a single telescope by combining the radio-light from the 50+ antennas. very cool tech going on there.
More info here: http://www.eso.org/public/astronomy/teles-instr/alma.html

Unfortunately the models are not freeware, they're actually highly detailed engineering models so i cannot share them.

[inkydigit]

no worries, if you dont ask...!
cheers for the info, very interesting stuff!