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It's really satisfying to make someone
else's ideas become a visual reality

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My name is Bailee. I'm a motion graphics
artist at NASA's Conceptual Image Lab.

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You know I start by asking a lot of
questions and then yeah I still use

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pencil and paper.
I definitely doodle a lot and take notes

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during meetings and then and then make
some preliminary sketches.It's really

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tempting to start animating right away,
but I think sketching those ideas out

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first really helps sort of lay the
groundwork for the piece. My name is

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Jonathan North. The first thing I do is
try and get all the information about the

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project that I can. I ask all the
questions. Like for example, Dragonfly's

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going to Titan. I have to know how big
Titan is, the surface, air quality, how it

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looks. So once I speak with a scientist
and get all my information, I then go to

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a rough storyboard. My name is Adriana Manrique. As we talk I'll start sketching,

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even though if there's like sketches
that take 5 seconds,  just to get the

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ideas down. They help me break down the
big project they help me troubleshoot

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things that otherwise I might not be
able to even ask.

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My name is Dongjae Krystofer Kim.
Sometimes there are projects that

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involve both 3d and 2d together, and I
really do enjoy breaking that boundary.

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I think there was one piece I build with
dark energy for WFIRST, and it was a

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highly stylized piece, but it also used
3d models but it was stylized

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in a way that it looks 2d but I still
had the freedom to move the spacecraft

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around in 3d. My name is Jacquelyn DeMink.
I tend to be like generally like the

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more hand-drawn style of 2d animation. It usually looks more fun and cartoony.

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I enjoyed working on the Earth Expeditions project, the five different missions

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because I had not only got to do a
different style that I'd never worked

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with before but also I got to learn
about five different missions that NASA

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was currently doing. My background, so I
was born in the South America in a

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country called Guyana.
I was there until around 12 or so. Coming

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from Guyana, it really did influence
my art style and artwork. I kind of tend

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to try to make everything go brighter,
more fun, add those something in there

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a little flair to the work.
Like sometimes I'll get a lot of ideas I

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guess just from the natural world. Like
the way sunlight hits something or maybe

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there's like some flowers along a path
that have a really interesting sort of

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color palette. If I can get away with it,
I like to use really bright punchy

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colors especially if it's 2d I like to
have swooshing lines things that are more

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sketchy almost because I think it just
gives the work a lot of energy, like a

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raw energy that is very appealing.

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One of the biggest things is getting the
believability of the work. You know, these

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are digital images that we are creating to make you believe. It makes science

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that would old it otherwise would be dry.
It makes it very interesting, it even

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makes it very attractive. I think science
illustration just makes you very

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observant, you know, aside from all the
the techniques and stuff that you learn,

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it makes you look more closely at the
world.