Maya Skies

Tales of the Maya Skies: A FullDome Documentary Film

Our Maya Skies Website

Welcome to a behind the scenes look at Tales of the Maya Skies, with information about the making of the film, the science behind the project and the amazing history of the Maya people and their civliziation.  If you have any notice any problems with the site, or have general questions, comments or anything else, please feel free to contact us at arts...@unm.edu


Maya Skies: People
Maya Skies: People

David Beining David Beining directs the immersive media program at ARTS Lab and fronts ‘DomeFest,’ the global fulldome film festival and conference. He served as a co-PI on the Maya Skies project and as the producer for ARTS Lab’s productions in the film. Hue Walker Hue Walker has been doing fulldome specific animation and motion [...]

Maya Skies: Production
Maya Skies: Production

Panoramic display of Hue Walker’s artwork on the northwest wall of the ARTS Lab gDome Full Dome Making Of Slides(originally presented at DomeFest 2009 Constellations ARTS Lab’s student-employee Jesus Valdez animated the constellation scene.  Intern (and University of Washington student) Jenn Swanson designed and produced the original constellation art. The constellation scene started with the [...]

Maya Skies: Development

Reference Material One of the most valuable resources that we utilized was the Maya Vase Database. The decision was made early on to use Maya Vase artwork as the stylistic basis of the mythological scenes.  In this data base you can see many of the images we used for reference, as well as countless others. Production Studios [...]