Ancient Seas exhibit wins international award
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THE Manitoba Museum’s new Ancient Seas exhibit has won an award at an international animation festival.
The animated undersea observatory, installed last spring at a cost of $440,000, won top honours for best scientific visualization at the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Louisiana last week.
Ancient Seas is a “virtual diorama” that allows visitors to view prehistoric marine Manitoba as if it’s a living world. The permanent exhibit recreates the Churchill area of 450 million years ago, when it was submerged under a tropical sea. Extinct creatures such as cephalopods and trilobites are animated based on fossil records.
Ancient Seas uses multi-layered animation, projected on three angled screens that span 7.5 metres, to create its aquarium-like illusion.
The Manitoba Museum worked closely with Phlesch Bubble, an Australian digital production studio, to be the first Canadian museum to offer the cutting-edge technology.
Installed in a darkened room, Ancient Seas is one of the final touches to a two-year renewal of the museum’s Earth History Gallery.