The Man Who Fell to Earth - VFX Breakdown by Outpost VFX

The Man Who Fell to Earth - VFX Breakdown by Outpost VFX

Check out this amazing & insightful VFX Breakdown "The Man Who Fell to Earth" by the talented team at Outpost VFX. For more information, please see the details and links below :

Director
Various

Outpost VFX Producer
Megan Smith

Outpost VFX Supervisor
Jesper Kjolsrud

Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 feature film The Man Who Fell to Earth, featuring a captivating and otherworldly performance by David Bowie, gained cult status for its unique style and visual impact. His adaptation, based on Walter Tevis’s 1963 novel of the same name, tackled themes of otherness and not belonging, as well as human vice, greed and corruption.

Continuing with a similar sentiment – perhaps more pertinent today than ever before – Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth is set 45 years after Thomas Newton (David Bowie) first visited Earth in a bid to save his planet.

Now, almost half a century later and with the species close to extinction, the survival of an overheated Anthea and its inhabitants rests on the shoulders of alien protagonist Faraday (Chiwetel Ejiofor). With a narrative that feels all too familiar, Faraday, teaming up with scientist Justin Falls (Naomie Harris), meets resistance from corporate entities placing more importance on exploitation than preservation.

Outpost were involved from the early stages of the project, with Outpost Art Director Steve Molloy working collaboratively with Dimension and showrunners Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Discovery) and Jenny Lumet (Star Trek: Picard) to design the sci-fi elements of the series.

Working from the showrunners’ initial ideas, Outpost and Dimension helped flesh out the show’s unique visual identity, in particular the alien landscape of Anthea, the space shuttle and Anthean technology, the vaporators. The teams worked together very closely, sending notes and concepts back and forth and evolving early conversations and concepts into the show’s unique style. Then, Outpost’s 2D and 3D teams began building out the concepts and working on early layouts.

Beyond the conceptual work, Outpost’s involvement was varied across a total of almost 150 shots, from invisible VFX, to sprawling outer space environments, hard surface modelling, and complex FX sequences.

One of the first big sequences Outpost worked on was based on Earth; it was the opening sequence shot at the Royal Albert Hall. We are first introduced to Faraday as a tech-guru, and watch him as he gives a tech talk to a full auditorium.

For this sequence the team received plates with a small group of actors sitting in various places of the hall, the rest of the audience was created using digi doubles. The team also did some blue screen replacement for these shots to show the images and headlines on the projector screens behind him.

Episode one was also the first time we are introduced to a vaporator, a machine of alien technology engineered to process Anthea’s little remaining water supply. On the creative development of the asset, Molloy says: “The client wanted something natural and less industrial looking, and we were working from the idea that the race of Anthea is an evolved insectile race and so it made sense they would base their technology on nature.

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The Man Who Fell to Earth

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The Man Who Fell to Earth VFX Breakdown

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