National Maritime Museum movies

We can finally come clean about a fantastic new series of films we've created for the National Maritime Museum's 'Old Weather' project.

The idea is to crowdsource members of the public to transcribe thousands of pages of ship's logs. The data will help to fill in gaps in our understanding of what the weather was like in the previous two centuries, and thereby help scientists to understand and predict what the weather will do in the future. Computers have failed to read the pages of hand-written script, but humans can interpret and transcribe the delicate type… given enough of them…

So we were asked by Mike Paterson to create three bespoke animated movies about different aspects of the process. We used a variety of techniques, 3D with motion-tracking and 2D motion graphics. Watch the movies on the following links:

http://beakus.com/blog/nmm-weather-reconstructions/	http://beakus.com/blog/nmm-crowdsourcing/	http://beakus.com/blog/nmm-sea-observations/

For more info on the project follow this link: http://www.oldweather.org/why_scientists_need_you