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Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-05-2015 03:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Artist adds motion to NASA's Apollo mission patches

The iconic mission patches for the Apollo moon landings have come to life in a new clip created by a professional animator.

Cincinnati-based artist Neil Smith revealed his take on the historic NASA emblems in an animated short he published on YouTube and Vimeo on Thursday (April 2).

"I have always thought it would be cool to animate all the mission patches from NASA's manned moon missions," Smith wrote in his video's description.

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posted 04-05-2015 04:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sts205cdr   Click Here to Email sts205cdr     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
WONDERFUL! That was very well done!

randy
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posted 04-05-2015 04:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Echoing the post of sts205cdr, very well done!

prontouk
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posted 04-05-2015 05:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for prontouk   Click Here to Email prontouk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Absolutely fantastic, great animation and imagination.

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posted 04-05-2015 06:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 4allmankind   Click Here to Email 4allmankind     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Too cool, especially Apollo 13!

J Blackburn
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posted 04-05-2015 09:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for J Blackburn   Click Here to Email J Blackburn     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Excellent!!

mach3valkyrie
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posted 04-05-2015 11:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mach3valkyrie   Click Here to Email mach3valkyrie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Great job! Very entertaining.

Rocketman!
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posted 04-05-2015 11:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rocketman!   Click Here to Email Rocketman!     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Outstanding piece of work! The graphics, the animation concepts, the music and audio clips … the whole package.

I had considered trying something like this with the collectSPACE insignia. I would love to see what Neil could do.

butch wilks
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posted 04-06-2015 01:53 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for butch wilks   Click Here to Email butch wilks     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Outstanding. It brought tears to my eyes.

Love the deep blue moon background on the Apollo 7 patch. It just added to the patch that is missing from all the embroidered patch. I think it looks better like this.

I'd like to add my enthusiasm to Rocketman's to see the collectSPACE insignia animation, with the spacecraft moving a long the orbits. It would look fantastic and make the insignia pop out.

nasamad
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posted 04-06-2015 03:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for nasamad   Click Here to Email nasamad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Outstanding job, he certainly know how to animate now!

astrorero
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posted 04-06-2015 10:50 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for astrorero     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Beautiful! Radio transmissions and Kennedy's speeches were very appropriate. A job well done!

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posted 04-06-2015 03:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tykeanaut   Click Here to Email Tykeanaut     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What a great idea and very well executed too!

p51
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posted 04-06-2015 03:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I agree of course that it's very well done.

I hope someone contacts him about this thread...

KSCartist
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posted 04-06-2015 07:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for KSCartist   Click Here to Email KSCartist     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This is absolutely fantastic. I can imagine the work involved but I would love to see the Space Shuttle and ISS Expedition patches done as well.

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posted 04-06-2015 09:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ronpur   Click Here to Email Ronpur     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I could have seen those being used for the opening of the TV broadcast if they had the technology to do them back then. It is beautiful.

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posted 04-07-2015 06:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for astroborg   Click Here to Email astroborg     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very nice work! At the time of the Apollo 15 mission, didn't one of the US Broadcast networks have an animation of the Apollo 15 emblem? I seem to recall this was the case.

mach3valkyrie
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posted 04-07-2015 09:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mach3valkyrie   Click Here to Email mach3valkyrie     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It was CBS News.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 04-07-2015 03:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Neil Smith has gone into more detail about how he animated the Apollo mission patches on his blog here.
The eagle featured in the Apollo 11 patch presented quite a challenge – both in a design sense and in a 3D modeling sense. First of all, of all the mission patches I wanted to somehow incorporate the lunar module (LEM) sitting on the surface of the moon – which was not a part of the patch itself. Secondly, I wasn’t sure I could animate a 3D eagle very well. I’m fairly good with hard surface objects like machines and space ships; but I’m not all that great (read: crappy) at organic things like people and animals and yes, eagles. I had an eagle model that I attempted to animate landing on the moon and striking the pose as seen in the mission patch. Wow. Did that suck...
And there is a poster version of Smith's art for sale through Zazzle.

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posted 04-07-2015 11:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Space Emblem Art   Click Here to Email Space Emblem Art     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Neil, Absolutely great... including your Apollo 11 eagle. Keep up the good work. I'm sure we'd all like to see what you could do with Skylab, ASTP and shuttle mission emblems.

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