Visual Designer
Before "Sweetening"
After "Sweetening"
After "Sweetening"
Before "Sweetening"
Curiosity Publicity Images
Curiosity Rover publicity images created for the Mars Exploration Program.
Photoshop "Sweetening."
Images provided by client, for revision by the artist.
Image courtesy of NASA, JPL, Caltech.
Our customer was not satisfied by the publicity images that were generated from Curiosity's animated movie. She came to me because she wanted to offer the viewer a "sense of wonder", and a feeling of "being there." She felt the original images were not compelling enough to create an emotional connection with the Curiosity spacecraft, and thus the MSL mission.
As I had worked with our customer for a number of years, I understood her aesthetic sensibilities, and "sweetened" the images to match her distinct visual style - to make the images look more friendly, inviting, and "alive".
My customer and the project scientists were very happy with the end results. I created many other publicity images in this set, which were used pre-launch, to create interest in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Mission.