#erik wernquist

[fromthedust]

Erik Wernquist (working in Sweden)

Verona Rupes on Miranda

A 20-kilometer-high scarp that is the highest cliff in the Solar System.

[sozeugs]

The fantastic hard sf art of Erik Wernquist

https://erikwernquist.com/work

[swiftsnowmane]

"Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our future in space might look like, if it ever happens. The locations depicted in the film are digital recreations of actual places in the Solar System, built from real photos and map data where available. Without any apparent story, other than what you may fill in by yourself, the idea of the film is primarily to show a glimpse of the fantastic and beautiful nature that surrounds us on our neighboring worlds - and above all, how it might appear to us if we were there. As some may notice I have borrowed ideas and concepts from science fiction authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson and Arthur C. Clarke, just to name a few. And visually, I of course owe many tips of my hat to painter Chesley Bonestell - the legendary master of space art. More directly, with kind permission from Ann Druyan I have also borrowed the voice of astronomer and author Carl Sagan to narrate the film. The audio I used are excerpts from his own reading of his book 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space' - needless to say, a huge inspiration for this film."

(Originally posted to YouTube Aug. 4, 2015)

[theseworldsareyours]

[pajamagirlproductions]

"The sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled...the open road still often calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood." - Carl Sagan

"Wanders" by VFX artist Erik Wernquist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3c1QZzRK4

[for-all-mankind]

Cassini prepares for final orbital “Grand Finale” at Saturn.

Erik Wernquist, the same filmmaker who created 2014's “Wanderers” and a stunning New Horizons promotional film in 2015, has created a new video highlighting NASA’s Cassini mission’s final days at Saturn. The Cassini spacecraft will begin its final series of orbits to cap a 13-year groundbreaking science mission known as the Grand Finale. For the first time ever in Cassini's time at Saturn, the spacecraft will fly in between the planet's rings and atmosphere. No spacecraft has ever before flown in this region of any of the solar system's ringed planets. After 23 orbits, Cassini will dive into Saturn's upper atmosphere September 15 where it will be destroyed. In 2008, mission managers explored a range of End of Mission scenarios that would protect Saturn's moon's from Earthly contaminants before ultimately deciding on atmospheric reentry. Cassini began her End of Mission manoeuvres on November 26, 2016, when it began the first of 20 ring-grazing orbits. A close flyby of Titan April 22 will alter the spacecraft’s trajectory to begin the first of 23 orbits in the Grand Finale, which will begin April 26.

Cassini launched from Earth on October 15, 1997, and entered Saturn orbit June 30, 2004. Six months later, on January 14, 2005, the European-built Huygens probe attached to the spacecraft landed on Titan, becoming the first probe to land in the outer solar system. 

Originally scheduled for a four-year mission ending in 2008, Cassini received two mission extensions in 2008 and 2010, with the latter ending in 2017. With the spacecraft's fuel reserves low, the Cassini team decided to end the mission. P/C: JPL/Erik Wernquist

[bobbietables]

ONE REVOLUTION PER MINUTE - a short film by Erik Wernquist

[labelizer]

Erik Wernquist – One Revolution Per Minute

Erik Wernquists exquisite Kurzfilme hatte ich soweit ich mich erinnere schon einmal in meinem alten Blog. Vor kurzem hat er dieses tolle Video veröffentlicht, welches sozusagen einen Rundgang über Raumschiff bietet, welches künstliche Gravitation durch Rotation ermöglicht. Dieser Luxusliner, so wie es erscheint, ist in Cinema 4D gebaut. Das Licht- und Schattenspiel ist sehr überzeugend gelungen.

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