Storyboard and illustration

The storyboard’s visual thinking, planning, and execution with 27 scenes are about a deep-space mission to Pluto using a directly Earth-and-solar escape trajectory.

Walking Alone is a storyboard for a musical-animation that presents NASA’s New Horizons mission: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt exploration. New Horizons launched in January 2006 and reached Pluto in July 2015. The fasted spacecraft ever built (at that time), traveling at more than 30,000 mph - had to cover about 3 billion miles before it arrived at its destination. To get a gravitational boost en route to Pluto, New Horizons made a close flyby of Jupiter in February 2007, which shortened its cruise time by about three years.

We illustrated the New Horizons journey with over 80 detailed slides, transitions to each new scene, maps of Pluto and Charon’s surfaces, the planets with their orbital lines, axial tilts and rotational directions, the trajectory of the spacecraft - a complete visual storyboard for the animation.

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