Back to the moon| The Art Side of the Moon
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Back to the moon has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
The Challenge | The Art Side of the Moon
Back to the moon
Triumphant human in astranout suit holding the moon as if he owned it. It is lit by two LED lights from the surface he's standing on. The background is a wall that projects NASA space images.
Local Challenge:
Our team designed several drawing drafts and decided on one.
We worked with 3D Modelling.
Part of our challenge was to work with the 3D modelling software, we worked with an astronaut's 3D model and modified it.
We had to polish the 3D printout.
It was fun figuring out how to shade the moon, we colored our hands with pencil and rubbed it over the 3D moon printout.
The astronout didn't print well overnight so we had to amputate his arm and replace it.
Another challenge was to stick the moon to the astronout's arm and make it look as if he was holding a trophy.
We couldn't print a NASA space image for the background, but, the idea as showed in the 3D model is to project behind the astronout NASA space images. The astronout should look as a moon conquerer, the astronout is returning to the moon and representing all humankind in the process.
Global Challange:
For our art concept, we wanted to have the astronout be lit up. We wanted it to be surrounded by a cool black wall in which NASA space up images would be projected. To accomplish this purpose, we used our laptop monitor, but the concept idea is to have the astrounout look majestically as in our project image.
Images we used for the background belong to NASA, we loved them so much that we thought that the astronout should appear as if he were covered or surrounded by NASA's work. These images bring us closer along with our art concept on a trip with NASA to the moon.
Images being used:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/most-colorful-view-of-universe-captured-by-hubble-space-telescope
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/hubble-eyes-galactic-refurbishment
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubble-peers-into-the-most-crowded-place-in-the-milky-way
https://www.nasa.gov/content/view-of-moon-from-space-station
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-first-quarter-moon-is-pictured-from-the-international-space-stationhttps://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/hubble-sees-a-slashing-smudge-across-the-sky
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/panta-rhei-as-seen-by-hubble
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubbles-hockey-stick-galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/gorddard/2017/hubble-digs-into-cosmic-archaeology
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019/hubble-finds-medusa-in-the-sky