Much of it is the work of Co-VFX Supervisors
Matt Kasmir and
Gravity. Despite it being fairly obvious for
The Midnight Sky to be VFX-driven, many watching it might not realize how many aspects of the film relied on VFX.
Fortunately,
Below the Line had a chance to speak with Matt Kasmir – unfortunately, Lawrence was indisposed at the time – for the following interview where we go into great depth on the visual effects for
The Midnight Sky.
Below the Line: I know you and Chris worked on Gravity, but you were at different houses at the time, right?
Matt Kasmir: I’d actually just left
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES (series two)
PRODUCTION Sky Productions/Bad Wolf
VFX Axis Studios
Axis Studios created a historically accurate CG Elizabethan London for the second series of the Sky Productions and Bad Wolf drama. The Axis team delivered 100 shots over 10 episodes, working on the production for 18 months, including throughout the pandemic.
The landscape is seen from above in several of the production’s fully CG aerial establishing shots. It is also shown in numerous scenes set inside the city.
Axis’s VFX team used period street maps and illustrations, as well as modern terrain data, to help create the reconstruction. The team then created Maya and Houdini pipelines to automatically populate assets such as people, buildings, courtyards, carts, boats, foliage and fauna across the cityscape, rivers and wharves.