Planet Unknown – Short Film

First of all, we would like to wish Happy Thanksgiving to everyone that does celebrate today and will do for the next few days. Through all the eating sessions and resting between, we would like to share this stunning short film on Abduzeedo.

The movie is called: Planet Unknown and it’s the story of a journey with as they called: Space Rovers were sent out to find potentially habitable planets. We just can’t deny that we love the approach of this film and how it just remind us of the movie Wall-E. Hope you will enjoy!

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The idea started back in 2014 when Interstellar was released. I was deeply impressed by the movie and was inspired by the two robots TARS and CASE. The idea of intellectual robots exploring space developed from there. Other inspirations include Pixar movies like WALL-E and Toy Story, as well as CHAPPiE, NASA documentaries about Mars Rover Curiosity, and short films by individuals like Alex Roman’s The Third & The Seventh, Richard Mans’ Abiogenesis, Erik Wernquist’s Wanderers, Alf Lovvold’s Dawn of the Stuff, and so many more.

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Credits

• Written & Directed by – Shawn Wang
• Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Compositing & Editing – Shawn Wang
• Music & Sound Design by – Echoic Audio
• Composer – Sam Foster
• Sound Design by – Tom Gilbert & David Johnston
• Special Thanks to – Evolutions
• Re-recording Mixer – Will Norie
• Faculty Producer – Xinyuan Huang
• Faculty Adviser – Yucheng Huang
• Special Thanks to System Advisers – Horizon Bian / Sicong Wang / Jiawei Cao

More Information: http://shawnwangvfx.com.