SCI-FI AND CGI ON THE SMALL SCREEN
It’s probably not that surprising that just about every sci-fi or superhero show today utilises CG and visual effects. Indeed, some characters in these types of shows are often entirely digital, while the locations and environments in these series are regularly synthetic, or a mix of real locations and manufactured places.
3D World looks at The Orville, Weird City, Doom Patrol and The Flash, and talks to the visual effects studios involved (Pixomondo, FuseFX, Artifex Studios, Encore) about how their VFX brought these sci-fi and comic-book stories to life.
THE ORVILLE’S OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD ENVIRONMENTS
Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville follows the crew of the titular space vessel as they carry out missions in space and on far-flung planets. That premise immediately calls for extensive digital environment work, and much of that is provided by visual effects studio Pixomondo. For the episode ‘Identity Part I’, the Orville travels to the Kaylon homeworld, which proved to be a complex mix of futuristic buildings and abundant alien life.
“When we’re making an environment,” observes Pixomondo visual effects supervisor Nhat Phong Tran, “we
