Set foot on an alien world, three billion miles from the warmth of the sun. Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto, scanning the dwarf planet in unprecedented detail. Using data from that flyby, The New York Times created a seven-minute virtual reality film.

Seeking Pluto’s Frigid Heart

Organization: The New York Times

Date: September 20, 2016

This was the first CG-generated 360 video produced by The New York Times — a crazy feat that required a brand new audio-visual production process, days of render time and careful experimentation with animation in VR.

I developed the visual treatment and animated cameras for all Pluto scenes, established an equirectangular stereo pipeline in Maya, organized and managed compositing in After Effects, researched the editing process for ambisonic audio and went on a hopeless quest to generate stereoscopic space dust.