I've got a fantastically charming sci-fi animated short film called "Planet Unknown" that you've got to check out. The film was directed by Shawn Wang, and it's set at the end of the 21st century. Mankind is "facing global resource depletion," and two space rovers are "sent out to find potential inhabitable planets." This short tells the story of these robots as they explore the terrain of these planets and conduct experiments. In this short their mission takes an unexpected turn.
Wang goes to the Communication University of China, and this is his graduation film. He spent 11 months completing it and had this to say about what inspired him to make it:
"The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots Tars and Case. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there."Other inspirations...
Wang goes to the Communication University of China, and this is his graduation film. He spent 11 months completing it and had this to say about what inspired him to make it:
"The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots Tars and Case. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there."Other inspirations...
- 10/6/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Many, many videos have been made combining beautiful images of planet Earth with the impeccable prose of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, but now a true stunner has taken the throne as king of them all. If you liked Interstellar - or even just the actual space bits of Interstellar - you're going to love Wanderers. Created by Erik Wernquist, Wanderers takes Sagan's audio-book reading of select Pale Blue Dot passages and lays it over some pretty impressive imagery that depicts mankind's voyages across deep space. It's sort of like a space-tourism advert, only it gets extra bonus points as Wernquist rendered all the visuals using real astronomy photos and map data. Check it out. And if you'd like to go deeper and...
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- 12/2/2014
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
Ever since I was a kid I felt the awe and wonder of space exploration, and it has always been reinvigorated when I see a movie based around that concept — a couple of the more recent films included Gravity and Interstellar. Today I want to share a short futuristic sci-fi film called "Wanderers" with you that celebrates the pure awesomeness of space travel. The short comes from Erik Wernquist, and it offers us a breathtaking glimpse at what it might be like when visiting other planets that reside in our own solar system.
What makes this short so cool is that all of the imagery used is based on real locations that are actually a part of our solar system. Slate mentions some of them, including: "Sunset on Mars. The weird ridge wrapped around Saturn’s moon Iapetus. The ice fields of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Even those cliff divers?...
What makes this short so cool is that all of the imagery used is based on real locations that are actually a part of our solar system. Slate mentions some of them, including: "Sunset on Mars. The weird ridge wrapped around Saturn’s moon Iapetus. The ice fields of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Even those cliff divers?...
- 12/1/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
If you're anything like me, part of the appeal of films like Prometheus or Interstellar is the idea of us traveling into outer space and into the unknown. While there is plenty to see here on Earth, there's so much more out there in the stars. That brings us to Erik Wernquist's short film, Wanderers. I've put his synopsis below, as he words it better than I ever could, but I'd urge you for the first time to just sit back and let the words of Carl Sagan...
- 12/1/2014
- by Sean Wist
- JoBlo.com
"Maybe it's a little early... Maybe the time is not quite yet... But those other worlds – promising untold opportunities – beckon." Whoa. Thanks to all the new sci-fi out there, from Interstellar to Star Wars, there's a renewed feeling of excitement about space exploration. Celebrating our potential for exploration in the future, this short film called Wanderers from Erik Wernquist is a spectacular, breathtaking look at where we might be in regards to visiting other places in our own solar system. All the imagery used in this is real - that's what makes it amazing. These are real locations in our solar system, and this is what we hope it's like in the future, because I already want to visit everywhere we see in this. Those cliffs divers! So cool! So many beautiful places are shown in this. Slate mentions a few of them: "Sunset on Mars. The weird ridge wrapped around Saturn’s moon Iapetus.
- 11/30/2014
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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