Transitional Pulsars

In a collaboration between NASA and MICA we are a group of students charged with the mission to illustrate Transisional Pulsars! A fascinating phenomena in our cosmos in which one star collapses out of two stars that have been orbiting eachother for a very long time. The collapsed star can form a neutron ball which is extremely dense, emits powerfull gamma radiation, and can end up eating it's companion star. This has been called a "black widow effect" and we will be animating that metaphor. 

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Background test

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pulsar

gamma waves test

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Malcolm’s pulsar test

now with magnetic fields!

(not a huge fan of this magnetic fields design)

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More gamma radiation gifs to brainstorm the style of our animation! 

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A sketch of what the 2D animation style going on top of the 3D part of our animation may look like! Still very preliminary. 

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Pulsar concept gif

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Sketch of our storyboard