PRODUCTIONS

Fulldome productions are expensive, have humongous file sizes, and are difficult to create...until now. Given the production power of the open source render engine Blender, fulldome productions can now be made by a community of individuals who have limited resources and money. Below, you will find a varriety of fulldome resources such as free shows, sample shows, links to affordable productions, and tutorials on creating your own fulldome videos.

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Free Fulldome Shows

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Space Is Big | Coming Soon

DIY Planetarium is currently working on its first 3k show since 2009. Space Is Big is complete reworking of our 2010 show, Solar Journey. Viewers will be flown through our solar system, passing by the sun, the planets, its exciting moons such as Io, Europa, and Ganymede, as well as Kuiper Belt objects. In the spirit of Solar Journey, this show will also be offered for free! Enjoy this work in progress until Solar Journey is completed.

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Solar Journey

Traveling through the universe, this short 9 minute production stars at the sun, winding its way through the planets out to the newly classified dwarf planet, Pluto.

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Two Small Pieces of Glass

Created for the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, TSPOG is a professional quality show avaliable for free, given that it will be used only for educational purposes and not profit. From Galileo to the Hubble and beyond, this show is great for all ages.

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4-H Evolving

From corn clubs in 1900 to computer projects in 2013, see how 4-H has changed over the past 100+ years in this immersive fulldome production.

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Moons of the Giants

My first show ever, Moons of the Giants tours a few standout moons of Jupiter and Saturn. 3 minutes.

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Fulldome Samples

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Space Is Big | Saturn

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Space Is Big | ATS Charles

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Wind Farm

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Blood Cells

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Fulldome Format Show

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Ocean Waters

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Fulldome Format Show

Affordable Productions

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First & Furthest

From the earliest Chinese rockets to the Apollo 11 moon landing, this show produced by the Ott Planetarium will dazzle and entertain you for 30 minutes. A must see.

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Dawn of the Space Age

Enjoy Apollo 11? The Thrill of landing on the moon? Up close launch sequences that demonstrate the magnitude of Apollo engineering? If you enjoy anything about rockets, DOTSA is well built show that never fails to visually dazzle.
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Fulldome Production Tutorials

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Blender 2.76b

The Blender Cycles rendering engine nicely supports fulldome rendering. Download this template to get started today.

Fulldome Render Template

Blender | DIY Tutorials

I have started creating Blender tutorials. Don't see something you're interested in? Email me! I'll be happy to make a tutorial for you.
Blender Tutorials

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Blender | Getting Started

Before you can start making brilliant fulldome productions, you'll need to get comfortable with the basics of the Blender sotware. This tutorial will guide you through that.

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Computing Power

You can create a show with a single machine, but the more CPUs you have, the better off you'll be. Above is a supercomputer I built, with a 4-core machine on each shelf. Using AMD CPUs and bare bones parts, a supercomputer like this can be built for under $2k.