Blueprints planetarium design 360 trial#

They met with CIA students early in the school year to present their original music and discuss animation ideas with the art students.

The Planetarium Project started in late summer when CIM students began composing scores. Scalmato said all of the animations were created in a course offered by the Animation Department, but that students represented a nice cross section of campus, coming from Animation, Game Design, Illustration, Video, Industrial Design, Ceramics, and Painting. “They had to work together and communicate with each other and keep to a professional production schedule, and that in itself is a major task to handle.” “The students have been fantastic and I’m really proud of them,” Scalmato said. But students rose to the challenge and made all of the deadlines built into their ambitious production schedule.

Blueprints planetarium design 360 trial#

“It was the first time any of us had done anything like that so it was a lot of trial and error and test screenings at the planetarium,” he said. Swirling images and colors timed to accompany new music will surround audience members in sight and sound from all angles in the museum’s planetarium, one of the best equipped and most compelling facilities of its size in the nation.ĬIA’s Animation Department Chair Anthony Scalmato said the curved nature of the dome’s surface presented interesting technical challenges for his students, who were accustomed to creating animations for flat screens. 25 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Nathan and Fannye Shafran Planetarium.

Animations created by Cleveland Institute of Art students will complement original scores composed by Cleveland Institute of Music students when the two colleges present a public program, 360 Degrees of Sight + Sound: The Planetarium Project, on Feb.