Satellites at the IRC

So as I mentioned in this post, I acquired a 3D modeling internship at the UMBC Imaging Research Center (IRC). The project that I participated in was a joint effort between IRC and NASA (the Goddard Space Flight Center facility in particular). I made low-poly previsualizations based on the satellites from the NASA Global Precipitation Meausurement (GPM) mission.

I modeled them in Maya and in the next few months they will be textured and rendered by my supervisor, Ryan Zuber.

By the end of the summer they will be part of a short animation on display at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

For scale and detail references, I used publicly available art renderings, schematics, and photographs such as the ones below:

https://directory.eoportal.org/image/image_gallery?img_id=189545&t=1338557852321

http://www.spaceflight101.com/uploads/6/4/0/6/6406961/2481265.jpg?455

http://www.spacemankind.com/images/ms/20091019-dmsp-hr.jpg