The Drake Equation - Probability of Aliens | 2020 Breakthrough Junior Challenge

My submission for the 2020 Khan Academy Breakthrough Junior Challenge. All artwork, audio, animations and edits were done by me, and a making-of video will be available soon!
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I started the animation process by creating storyboards in photoshop. My vector art was created in Adobe Illustrator, and imported into Adobe After Effects for the animation. I used Adobe Premiere to cut all the scenes together into the final animation. The whole process took about ~120 hours, over a time span of about two and a half months. (mid-April to late June)

Inspiration:

LEMMiNO - The Great Silence:    • The Great Silence  

TED Ed - Calculating The Odds of Intelligent Alien Life:    • Calculating The Odds of Intelligent A...  

Kurzgesagt - The Fermi Paradox:    • The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The...  
(Special thanks to Kurzgesagt in a Nutshell for style inspiration)

BrainStuff - What Is The Drake Equation?:    • What Is The Drake Equation?  

References:

“Drake Equation.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 June 2020, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_eq...

“Overview.” NASA, NASA, https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-sy...

“Goldilocks Zone - Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond Our Solar System.” NASA, NASA, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources...

“Drake Equation.” Drake Equation | SETI Institute, http://www.seti.org/drake-equation-index.

Shostak, Seth. “Fermi Paradox.” SETI Institute, http://www.seti.org/seti-institute/pr....

Williams, Matt. “What Is the Drake Equation?” Universe Today, 14 Apr. 2020, http://www.universetoday.com/39966/dr....

“Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 June 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_...

Staff, Space.com. “100 Billion Alien Planets Fill Our Milky Way Galaxy: Study.” Space.com, Space, 2 Jan. 2013, http://www.space.com/19103-milky-way-....

“Milky Way.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 17 June 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

Try the Drake Equation For yourself: https://informationisbeautiful.net/vi...
(website is sometimes down)

Check out my website to see other projects of mine: https://www.colinfearing.com/

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“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ― Arthur C. Clarke