July 8th 05, 11:00 PM
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/MaasEmmyNom.bpf.html
Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01 earns Emmy nomination for realistic Mars
rover
animation
July 8, 2005
Media Contact:
Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
Office: (607) 254-8093
E-mail:
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose
realistic
Mars rover mission animations have been shown on television news
programs
the world over, received an Emmy Award nomination for his animation
featured in the PBS Nova documentary "Mars Dead or Alive."
The 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees were announced
July 7 by the National Television Academy. The awards, recognizing
outstanding achievement by individuals and programs broadcast during
2004,
will be given Sept. 19 in New York City.
Maas was nominated in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a
Craft:
Graphic and Artistic Design" category. The documentary itself was
nominated
in the "Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming"
category.
PBS is rebroadcasting "Mars Dead or Alive" July 12 at 8 p.m.
Recently Maas created the high-definition animation for NASA that
portrayed
a conceptualized view of the Deep Impact probe's July 4 collision with
comet Tempel 1. Founder of Maas Digital in Ithaca, he was hired to
create
the computerized animations on the strength of the widely heralded
videos
he developed for NASA's Mars rover missions.
Maas, who entered Cornell at age 16, has been making films and
animations
since elementary school. At Cornell he was a College Scholar, which
allowed
him to set his own curriculum, and he took courses mainly in math,
physics
and theater arts. He launched Digital Cinema -- the precursor to Maas
Digital -- at 16 and interned with an animation studio in Los Angeles
at
17. But his animation techniques are mostly self-taught. About half of
Maas' work is now for NASA; the other half is for aerospace companies.
Mark Davis of MDTV Productions near Boston directed and produced the
documentary, which aired after the rover Spirit's landing in January
2004.
Davis used about 10 minutes of Maas' animation, including six minutes
of
new animation that took Maas three months to complete. "I was working
at
breakneck speed," he said.
Currently Maas is developing animation for a forthcoming Walt Disney
IMAX
film about the Mars rover mission, scheduled to be released in early
2006.
Related World Wide Web sites:
Nova: <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Confirm date and time of Nova broadcasts:
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/schedule-local.html
Maas Digital: <http://www.maasdigital.com
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Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01 earns Emmy nomination for realistic Mars
rover
animation
July 8, 2005
Media Contact:
Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.
Office: (607) 254-8093
E-mail:
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose
realistic
Mars rover mission animations have been shown on television news
programs
the world over, received an Emmy Award nomination for his animation
featured in the PBS Nova documentary "Mars Dead or Alive."
The 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominees were announced
July 7 by the National Television Academy. The awards, recognizing
outstanding achievement by individuals and programs broadcast during
2004,
will be given Sept. 19 in New York City.
Maas was nominated in the "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a
Craft:
Graphic and Artistic Design" category. The documentary itself was
nominated
in the "Outstanding Science, Technology and Nature Programming"
category.
PBS is rebroadcasting "Mars Dead or Alive" July 12 at 8 p.m.
Recently Maas created the high-definition animation for NASA that
portrayed
a conceptualized view of the Deep Impact probe's July 4 collision with
comet Tempel 1. Founder of Maas Digital in Ithaca, he was hired to
create
the computerized animations on the strength of the widely heralded
videos
he developed for NASA's Mars rover missions.
Maas, who entered Cornell at age 16, has been making films and
animations
since elementary school. At Cornell he was a College Scholar, which
allowed
him to set his own curriculum, and he took courses mainly in math,
physics
and theater arts. He launched Digital Cinema -- the precursor to Maas
Digital -- at 16 and interned with an animation studio in Los Angeles
at
17. But his animation techniques are mostly self-taught. About half of
Maas' work is now for NASA; the other half is for aerospace companies.
Mark Davis of MDTV Productions near Boston directed and produced the
documentary, which aired after the rover Spirit's landing in January
2004.
Davis used about 10 minutes of Maas' animation, including six minutes
of
new animation that took Maas three months to complete. "I was working
at
breakneck speed," he said.
Currently Maas is developing animation for a forthcoming Walt Disney
IMAX
film about the Mars rover mission, scheduled to be released in early
2006.
Related World Wide Web sites:
Nova: <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Confirm date and time of Nova broadcasts:
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/schedule-local.html
Maas Digital: <http://www.maasdigital.com
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