Welcome to the FULLDOME @ Home Run Pictures web site... We've been creating fulldome content longer than any other production studio... the first 90 second sequence created for the 1998 IPS Conference in London as a demonstration of the new video capability for SkySkan. The audience rose in applause and the fulldome era began for planetariums.

Here you will find information relating to past creative and production work for the fulldome market.  These are intended to give a behind-the scenes look at some of our past and current work and provide insight into various aspects of fulldome production concepts and techniques. New materials will be added as they become available...

APOLLO 11 SATURN V LAUNCH - Click here to open a page that has a behind the scenes look at how the fulldome Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket lauch was created for Buhl Planetarium. NEW

FULLDOME SHOWCASE - Click here to open a page that features sequences from many of the fulldome shows Home Run Pictures has produced for planetariums. UPDATED

IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING EXPERIENCES - Click here to view a discussion of how immersive experiences in their various formats excel at storytelling.

Whats_Never_Been_Seen_Paper.pdf - A discussion of the various creative and technical aspects of sucessfully visualizing for fulldome storytelling. From a presentation given at IMERSA2016 in Denver and also at IPS2016 in Warsaw.

INSIDE THE PRODUCTION: PAN&SCAN - Click here to go to a descrpition of a Maya tool under development to more effectively convert fulldome sequences or complete shows into 16x9 rectangular movies.

INSIDE THE PRODUCTION: THE MILKY WAY - Click here to go to a behind the scenes description of the production pipeline used to create a visualization of the Milky Way galaxy

INSIDE THE PRODUCTION: THE SUN - Click here to go to a detailed behind the scenes discussion of production of the Sun sequence for Buhl Planetarium's fulldome show "Solar Quest."

INSIDE THE PRODUCTION: TORNADO - Click here to go to a diary page for a behind the scenes discussion of production of a tornado sequence for the Houston Museum of Natural Science's fulldome show "Force Five."

STAR POSITION DATA ARRAY - Click here for a .rtf text file of a formatted array of ~46,000 star positions, magnitude down to 7 for use in creating star field backgrounds in various 3D software applications.

LOLA DATA PIPELINE - Click here to go to a case history outlining the pipeline for using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter LOLA data to create realistic/accurate Moon terrain.

INSIDE THE PRODUCTION - Click here to go to a diary page for a behind the scenes discussion of the the NASA Immersive Earth fulldome show production, "Impact: Earth."

Digital_Image_Capture_for_the_Planetarium.pdf - An in-depth technical paper written for the IPS 2008 workshop on the use of digital cameras and fisheye lenses to capture imagery for use in fulldome programs.

Traveler's Guide to Mars "Making-Of" - A "making-of" style Quicktime movie showing the production process for "Traveler's Guide to Mars."

HR-Buhl-Mars-tech.pdf - A technical brief outlining the production process and techniques used to create the motion capture sequences for "Traveler's Guide to Mars."

HR-dinosaur-prophecy-tech.pdf - A technical brief outlining the production process and techniques used to create the dinosaur sequences for "Dinosaur Prophecy."

HR-dinosaur-prophecy.pdf - A case history of the production of eight minutes of dinosaur animation for the NASA Immersive Earth project, "Dinosaur Prophecy."

HR-kt-dinosaurs.pdf - Imagery from the complete dinosaur sequence in "Earth's Wild Ride" for the Immersive Earth Project... including the dramatic views of the K-T asteroid event that is thought to have caused their extinction.

HR-moon-colony.pdf - Imagery from the opening sequence for "Earth's Wild Ride," part of the Immersive Earth project for Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science... a year 2081 scenario of an established Lunar colony at the south pole of the Moon.

HR-over-rendering-technique.pdf - A technical paper describing an over-rendering technique to aid in some cases where the stitching process used in fulldome production has visible seam artifacts (presented at the IPS2004 Fulldome Standards Summit).

HR-dinosaurs-case-history.pdf - A case history of the dinosaurs scene from "Earth's Wild Ride" for the Immersive Earth Project and planned for a January 2005 release.

HR-canyon-case-history.pdf - A case history of the canyon scene from "Earth's Wild Ride..." part of the Immersive Earth Project funded by NASA through Rice University and the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

HR-titanic-content-available.pdf - A description of Titanic content that is available for licensing to most facilities (fulldome and standard video).

HR-titanic-case-history.pdf - A behind-the-scenes look at the production of "Night of the Titanic," which premiered at the Burke Baker Planetarium in Houston.

HR-microcosm-case-history.pdf - A case history look at the production of "Microcosm," a fulldome show created in partnership with Evans & Sutherland Digital Theater.

HR-Siggraph2003-course.pdf - Materials from the 2003 Siggraph course on Immersive/Fulldome Theater Production.

For more information, contact Tom Casey @ Home Run Pictures...

mailto:bighitter@hrpictures.com

http://www.homerunpictures.com

Feel free to link to these materials to promote and further content creation for the fulldome market... all materials are copyrighted, so permission is required to reproduce these materials for independent use.