I took Ash Thorp's main title design class on LearnSquared and thought it was an awesome experience. I highly recommend it to anyone looking to expand their horizons or just to be exposed to some great workflow tips. This project isn't anything I did specifically for the class but it is a culmination of a lot of the things I learned there.

I did the design for a script I helped develop with the Dawnrunner team for a show called SOL. The story takes place in the future where the human race has successfully colonized the solar system, but a civil war threatens to take that all away. 

The project was a great way for me to practice visual storytelling, typography, and 3D rendering. I created all the planets and moons in Cinema4D to scale, even adjusting for orbital eccentricities and inclinations. I was trying to be as accurate as possible with the exception of Mars' ocean, which would exist in the narrative of the show.

All three shots of the Martian surface were created with image and height data from MRO's HiRISE camera. I couldn't find any topographical data of the moon in the resolution I wanted so that surface was generated in World Machine. Everything was put together in Cinema4D and rendered in Octane 3.