Author Topic: Falcon 9 Core Stage Ocean Landing CGI Animation Video Effort (Read 72626 times)

Chris Bergin · « **on:** 09/19/2014 05:07 pm »

As some of you are aware, some of our super talented members have been busy working on cool graphics and such in L2. One such effort involves an animated version of the CRS-3 Core Stage returning to the ocean.

Okan170 and SittingDuck are the two main people who have worked on this. I'll let them add any more named of accreditation into this thread.

Anyway, we've taken the raw HD upload as to what we've got to in L2 and put it on youtube to share with the NSF masses.

Now what I think may be a good idea (which we were already starting to do by adding some sound to it) is to conduct what NSF's massive community has already proved it's good at and crowd source an effort to add more to it, such as good sound, and maybe edit in other clips, such as from the amazing video recovery effort, and really build this movie.

Video recovery effort:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34597.0
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/06/recovering-falcon-9-ocean-landing-video-done/

SpaceX folk (including very high up!) have already seen this animation - so now we're spreading the joy - and I'm sure a resulting effort will be something we'll be more than happy to send to them to use in some future videos they release. Like they did with the recovered video.

So, enjoy this short video and see what else we can do with it.

Remember, this is hosted here and is a NSF project, so respect that (as much as I know some kid will be thinking "I'll just reupload it to blogLOLZ.com" <---No!

kevinof · « **Reply #1 on:** 09/19/2014 05:18 pm »

Fantastic. Great work everyone that was involved

Kabloona · « **Reply #2 on:** 09/19/2014 06:18 pm »

Thanks for sharing that down here, Chris.

plank · « **Reply #3 on:** 09/19/2014 09:12 pm »

Awesome that's most likely how it would have exactly looked like in real life had there been a real recovery team there.

mlindner · « **Reply #4 on:** 09/20/2014 01:50 am »

Why does it appear to accelerate downward at 5 seconds in?

Great job though.

Ohsin · « **Reply #5 on:** 09/20/2014 03:09 am »

Candy for my eyes! Wait was worth it.

Extra love to one who would add sound to it.

zlsa · « **Reply #6 on:** 09/20/2014 03:17 am »

Version with sound:

All sound samples were from Freesound and were licensed CC0; the Merlin 1D sound is from SpaceX's F9R-Dev1 1000 meter hop video.

HIP2BSQRE · « **Reply #7 on:** 09/20/2014 03:25 am »

That is cool....

CuddlyRocket · « **Reply #8 on:** 09/20/2014 09:50 am »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 09/19/2014 05:07 pm

... and I'm sure a resulting effort will be something we'll be more than happy to send to them to use in some future videos they release. Like they did with the recovered video.

They'll need to be satisfied about the copyright position. They held the copyright in the recovered video in the first place, but this is a new creation.

You might need to put some blurb on this site about a creative commons licence or something; hopefully some members have the appropriate legal expertise!

deruch · « **Reply #9 on:** 09/20/2014 03:15 pm »

Outstanding work!!

By the way, how has no one suggested matching the sound that IainCole extracted during the CRS-3 video recovery effort:

Quote from: IainCole on 06/22/2014 08:13 pm

Quote from: meekGee on 06/22/2014 07:29 pm
Wait! The audio still doesn't work!

EDIT: And an obvious mega attaboy to all. When Elon said "we're going to crowd source it", I don't think he imagined this kind of an effort or result.

Fixed! I found a way to get the audio out of the data!

The Amazing Catstronaut · « **Reply #10 on:** 09/20/2014 09:22 pm »

Somebody send that animation to Space X.

rpapo · « **Reply #11 on:** 09/20/2014 09:36 pm »

Quote from: The Amazing Catstronaut on 09/20/2014 09:22 pm

Somebody send that animation to Space X.

Either Chris or Helodriver already did.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #12 on:** 09/21/2014 03:58 pm »

Yep. Many important people saw it before we put it on the open forum. Won't name names

GregA · « **Reply #13 on:** 09/22/2014 04:06 pm »

What a great animation Okan170 and SittingDuck have done!

I'm sure there are a few people looking at putting something together with the real footage.
I'm one of them (but it's 2am and time for bed), so I'll post something soon

GregA · « **Reply #14 on:** 09/24/2014 06:50 am »

First go attached. Draft only.

edit: see shorter version, next page.

I'll go back and do more, but thought I'd throw you some questions and get external input

1) I adjusted my earlier video which shows the whole process... but where should this start?
2) The observation plane footage of the stage coming through the clouds seems to start with looking DOWN at the stage descending, and switch to looking UP at the stage descending. It seems to fit better switched (as I've done). I don't like making a big switch like that on supplied footage - am I mis-seeing these angles? Plus I've sped it up x4 to original speed (it had been supplied at 1/4 speed)
3) alignment thoughts - there are 4 separate videos. Timing in the new animation is more challenging. Thoughts on timing?
4) observation plane footage at landing is doubled in speed, which means it's now running at half speed. But doubling it again seems way too fast... and it SEEMS to align at this speed - what am I missing?
5) copied the whole landing section, and made it 1/4 speed at the end. Seems too slow to me, but I like looking between all 4 shots. Worth having?

Need to add the rocket sound...

Lars-J · « **Reply #15 on:** 09/24/2014 07:45 am »

Quote from: GregA on 09/24/2014 06:50 am

First go attached. Draft only.

I'll go back and do more, but thought I'd throw you some questions and get external input

1) I adjusted my earlier video which shows the whole process... but where should this start?
2) The observation plane footage of the stage coming through the clouds seems to start with looking DOWN at the stage descending, and switch to looking UP at the stage descending. It seems to fit better switched (as I've done). I don't like making a big switch like that on supplied footage - am I mis-seeing these angles? Plus I've sped it up x4 to original speed (it had been supplied at 1/4 speed)
3) alignment thoughts - there are 4 separate videos. Timing in the new animation is more challenging. Thoughts on timing?
4) observation plane footage at landing is doubled in speed, which means it's now running at half speed. But doubling it again seems way too fast... and it SEEMS to align at this speed - what am I missing?
5) copied the whole landing section, and made it 1/4 speed at the end. Seems too slow to me, but I like looking between all 4 shots. Worth having?

Need to add the rocket sound...

A nice video - But you include TOO much - making the video appear unfocused and full of continuity errors.

My first recommendation would be to remove all of the SpaceX "F9R" full reusability demo. Just focus on first stage reuse. Start with the Orbcomm launch footage and go from there.

GregA · « **Reply #16 on:** 09/24/2014 08:21 am »

edit: this was an error. Old video.

Yeah it doesn't balance for several reasons... including I took the easy road by using my older video.

Have strictly focussed on landing now (give it a sec to fully upload).

Quote from: GregA on 09/24/2014 06:50 am

thought I'd throw you some questions and get external input

1) I adjusted my earlier video which shows the whole process... but where should this start?
2) The observation plane footage of the stage coming through the clouds seems to start with looking DOWN at the stage descending, and switch to looking UP at the stage descending. It seems to fit better switched (as I've done). I don't like making a big switch like that on supplied footage - am I mis-seeing these angles? Plus I've sped it up x4 to original speed (it had been supplied at 1/4 speed)
3) alignment thoughts - there are 4 separate videos. Timing in the new animation is more challenging. Thoughts on timing?
4) observation plane footage at landing is doubled in speed, which means it's now running at half speed. But doubling it again seems way too fast... and it SEEMS to align at this speed - what am I missing?
5) copied the whole landing section, and made it 1/4 speed at the end. Seems too slow to me, but I like looking between all 4 shots. Worth having?

Need to add the rocket sound...

sittingduck · « **Reply #17 on:** 09/24/2014 03:19 pm »

GregA, great video, I know you've heard this before but there might still be a bit too much going on at the end, I have but two eyes!

My humble suggestion is the final moments could be the only the CGI landing video + the repaired CRS-3 landing footage as these are the two concurrent events.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #18 on:** 09/24/2014 03:23 pm »

I tell you what, I'm really liking where that's going, GregA!

saliva_sweet · « **Reply #19 on:** 09/24/2014 04:00 pm »

Quote from: sittingduck on 09/24/2014 03:19 pm

GregA, great video, I know you've heard this before but there might still be a bit too much going on at the end, I have but two eyes!

My humble suggestion is the final moments could be the only the CGI landing video + the repaired CRS-3 landing footage as these are the two concurrent events.

I agree there is no real need for F9Rdev and the iced Orbcomm video after the CRS-3 video starts. But there is something to be said for having the chase plane landing footage in there too.