Pale Blue Dot is a 2-D animation by London-based studio ORDER, a visual response to the famed “Pale Blue Dot piece where he muses on our planet’s appearance in a photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. The most distant photograph ever taken of Earth.
“This was a personal project, designed and created in After Effects with extensive sound work created to sit alongside the music from ‘Cosmos’ and the spoken word from Sagan.”
Watch the original. Plus, more Carl Sagan-inspired videos.
via BrainPickings & It’s Okay to Be Smart.
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