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Fabric of the Cosmos

Motion Graphics
"The Fabric of the Cosmos," a four part series based on the book by renowned physicist and author Brian Greene, was produced by NOVA and aired on PBS in November of 2011. The series received a News and Documentary Emmy nomination for Outstanding Science and Technology Programming.The project spanned 18 months during which, myself and a team of animators were faced with the challenge of creating striking imagery that explained complex theories of Time, Space, Quantum Mechanics and the Multiverse. 
Featured on the cover of The New York Times, "The Arts" section and in an exlusive article for Real Screen magazine.
Individual slices of time represented by single frames of footage.
 
Proposed style for the look and feel of a Multiverse. The above is a sphere like artistic interpretation of what a universe might look like, viewed from the outside looking in.
 
Interview background. Modeled and rendered in Maya. Comped in After Effects.
 
Fabric of the Cosmos
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