Title : The Cepheids

Date : Spring 2007 - Fall2008

Duration : 6'48''min

Environment
S/W : Alias Maya, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After effect
H/W : Mac Dual-Core Intel Xeon

Synopsis
Henrietta Leavitt discovered the relation between the period and luminosity of cepheid variable stars. By using Henrietta's discovery, astronomers can estimate the distances to these stars and thus to their home galaxies. Her discovery became one of the foundations of modern cosmology.

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• Director
  Dallim Park
• Lead Animator
  Javier Zumaeta
• Animators
  Grigor Dzhambazyan, Yet Chu, Dallim Park
  
• Visual Effects/Simulation Supervisor
  Julia Yefimenko
• Story & Script Development
  Sonia Levitin, Anne Sullivan,
  Derek Wells, Eugene Shvarts
  
• Original Music
  Vartan Simonian
• Voice Cast
  Patrick Armitage, Stephanie Chan, Tony Longson

• Supervised by
  Prof. Eun-Young Elaine Kang
  Prof. Tony Longson
  Prof. Milan Mijic
• SciVi Research Mentors
  Mike Seiffert, Jason Rhodes, James Ling
• SciVi Project Evaluator
  Manisha Javeri, Simeon Slovacek

• Editor
  Dallim Park
  
• Storyboard Artist
  Dallim Park
  
• Modelers
  Dallim Park, Javier Zumaeta
  
• Texture Artists
  Grigor Dzhambazyan, Dallim Park, Javier Zumaeta
  
• Rigger
  Grigor Dzhambazyan
  
• Rendering Supervisors
  Dallim Park, Grigor Dzhambazyan
• Post-Production
  Dallim Park

• Astronomy Research Team
  Derek Wells, Frank Wong, Giancarlo Restreppo
  Anne Sullivan, Eugene Shvarts
• Technical Development Team
  Jigar Patel, Rone Kwei Lim, Julia Yefimenko
  Kanokwan Chansamon, Spencer Perreault