Animated History Of Aviation

"The Beginning" music by Capo Productions:

This video portrays a brief history of aviation in 3D animation. While there are many contributions to aviation that could not be included, this video shows many of the substantial advancements that propelled aviation to what it has become today.

Created by Aaron Bristow
Produced by Adam Evans
Additional 3D and texture creations by Rob Guest, Preston Powell and Paris Miller

[uvuaviation]

Thanks. The 3D created with Maya, textures with Photoshop, and the compositing and text was created using After Effects.

[uvuaviation]

@PeetPeeet We would love to do a longer version with more inclusions. There are so many great aviation stories and innovations.

[srjscott]

Awesome Work! Well done. For all those folks picking it apart, we'll be waiting to see your version with the parts you feel are missing.

[xZachxxxx]

What a great video! Makes me sad that I'll never be able to pursue my lifelong dream of being a pilot. :(

[kittybirg]

What a terrific video!

I was happy to see Lilienthal, as well as some names I'd never even heard of -- more to research!

[uvuaviation]

@srjscott Thanks for the kind comments. It's nice to see some positive people out there.

[mangomax]

Pretty cool video, I watched it like 3 times in a row... Very inspirational :D

[Duuftj]

great! I'm posting this on my blog!!!!

[wearetheninjasofpie]

I watched this in my aviation class at high school the other day, I thought it was great.

[PierreLeduc]

Hope you enjoy the reading as the documentation is really quite interesting, as are the flights conducted in both the US and Germany in light of the then upcoming 100th year of flight celebrations.

[nesterhaus]

Great video missed the shuttle myself-Thank you for sharing the video!

[winnmicro]

As a graphic designer and aviator ... I loved it. Great job

[bencoleman]

AWESOME! definitely going to use in my aviation project

[stime]

Best Video i've seen in a long time!

[timothyjohns]

FANTASTIC production. Thanks for making this. Would love to see the MkII version with the inclusion of people such as Sir Charles Kingsford Smith... and Chuck Yeager etc...

[uvuaviation]

@pixelkatten All of the models were created with as much accuracy as possible. Most have less detail because the actual subject had less detail. With that said, more time was spent on the "UVU model" because we can reuse it for many other trainings such as engine systems, instruments and more. That extra detail isn't really seen in this video because it is on the inside of the aircraft. There was no intention to make our models better than the others, but that wouldn't have been a bad idea.

[hardballprofessor]

This is just a great video! I wish people would do less complaining and more creating like this.

[Josuig]

I miss the Bell_XS-1, the first plane breaking the sound barrier and the Concorde, here, which along with Tupolev the only supersonic planes for civilian use. They were able to cover Paris/London-New York in under four hours.

[RoadWearyPilot]

Very Cool, nice job on the animation.

To you people who are complaining about the omissions, create your own if you think you can do better.

[lucienebr]

Many people are missing in the video... But, it's a short video, not a movie!
Aviation is so impressive... I'll be a pilot in my next life... In my current life I was chosen to be a mere physics' teacher... LOL