I am developing a space debris removal technology called ARDENT and need a high-quality cinematic animation for use in: - IP licensing meetings with aerospace prime contractors (ClearSpace UK, Astroscale) - UK Space Agency grant application (£75.6M programme) - UK Space Conference 2026 presentation
This is NOT a generic explainer video. This is a cinematic science film — think SpaceX Starship launch films, ESA debris visualisation videos, or NASA JPL science films. Serious, awe-inspiring, technically accurate.
I have a COMPLETE production storyboard document (Word doc, ~25 pages) containing:
✓ Shot-by-shot descriptions for all 13 shots ✓ Camera directions for every shot ✓ Full voiceover script (310 words, ~2m35s read time) ✓ Sound and music notes per shot ✓ AI video prompts per shot (Sora/Runway formatted — you may use these or ignore them) ✓ Style references for every scene type ✓ Colour palette and brand guidelines (ARDENT navy/gold)
You will not need creative meetings before quoting. The brief is complete.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE 13 SHOTS IN BRIEF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
01 — Earth from orbit, opening wide shot (8s) 02 — Orbital debris field visualisation with statistics overlay (12s) 03 — Defunct satellite collision in slow motion (10s) 04 — ARDENT title card (8s) 05 — Servicer spacecraft approaching debris target (14s) 06 — Vision system characterising debris with HUD overlay (12s) 07 — THE HERO SHOT: cannon fires, net deploys in slow motion (14s) ← most important 08 — Net envelops debris, cinch mechanism closes (17s) 09 — Drag augmentation sail unfurls, passive deorbit begins (17s) 10 — Data/statistics sequence with kinetic typography (13s) 11 — Three failure modes solved — comparison graphic (17s) 12 — Epic wide beauty shot, full system against Earth (13s) 13 — End card with logo reveal (15s)
Style: Cinematic CGI — photorealistic space environment, not cartoon or flat design References: SpaceX Starship landing films / ESA space debris visualisations / NASA JPL Resolution: 4K minimum (3840×2160), 16:9 Frame rate: 24fps cinematic (slow motion shots at 50fps+ then slowed) Format: MP4 H.264 master + compressed version for presentations Source files: Included in price (After Effects, Blender, or Cinema 4D project files) Voiceover: NOT included — I will record or commission separately Music: NOT included — I will license separately from Artlist/Epidemic Sound Colour grade: Cinematic, cool-toned space palette with warm Earth glow
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE HERO SHOT — SHOT 07 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 07 is the centrepiece of the film and the most important shot to get right. It shows a cold-gas cannon on the nose of a spacecraft firing a net package into space. The net blossoms open — 20 metres of fine Dyneema mesh expanding beautifully against black space, corner masses swinging out, sunlight catching the mesh fibres in gold. It travels at a visibly slow, controlled pace. This shot is beautiful and it needs to feel like a genuine engineering miracle.
Please pay special attention to this shot in your proposal — showing me you've thought about how to achieve it will go a long way.
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1. Your showreel / portfolio — specifically anything with: space, particles, slow motion physics, mechanical sequences, or technical animation 2. Which shots you'd approach using 3D CGI vs AI-assisted generation vs motion graphics 3. Your proposed timeline 4. Your fixed price for the complete deliverable 5. Two or three sentences on how you'd approach Shot 07 specifically
I will provide the full storyboard document to shortlisted applicants immediately.
IDEAL FREELANCER PROFILE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
- Experience with space, science, or technical CGI animation (essential) - Proficient in Cinema 4D, Blender, or equivalent 3D software (essential) - After Effects for compositing and motion graphics (essential) - Experience with particle systems and physics simulation (important) - Comfortable working from a detailed written brief without hand-holding - UK-based preferred but not essential — must be comfortable with English-language brief
NOT suitable for this project: - Character animators - 2D flat/explainer video specialists - Whiteboard animation - Template-based video makers
A skilled animator using a combination of 3D CGI for the mechanical shots and AI-assisted generation for the space environment shots can deliver this within a good budget.
I am happy to discuss a phased approach if helpful — priority shots first, balance on delivery.
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Looking forward to hearing from you. Please message with your portfolio and proposal.
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