On the set of Interstellar 🎬
The spacecrafts were created using miniature effects and full-size models, as Christopher Nolan felt they were better than computer generated effects, to give the ships a tangible presence in space.
Nolan has focused on as many real environments as possible. “We have spatial interiors. We built closed sets and shot it like a documentary, like the actors were really there”, he said. Nolan had the visual effects created in advance, and projected onto screens placed outside the spacecraft set, so when the actors and actresses looked out the windows of their vessel they would be able to see and react to a real environment, and not a greenscreen.
Anne Hathaway suffered from hypothermia while filming in Iceland, due to the fact that her astronaut suit was open while filming scenes in the icy water.
The giant dust clouds were created on-location, using large fans to blow cellulose-based synthetic dust through the air.
TARS was a practical puppet controlled an...
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