Many tests were made for the event horizon aspect, where particles approach the speed of light, but also where time is paradoxically slowed down to zero.įor all the shots of Neil inside SOTI during this black hole crossing, we created a special persistence treatment to the foreground plate, in order to express the time distortion. The black hole asset essentially consists of a dust accretion disk made of particles and procedural textures, of a blue energy column made of ejected particles, a ring of violent particle activity on the event horizon (dynamic fluid simulation), and finally of a black sphere in the center (the simplest asset of all). The challenge here was to render visually this kind of place of the universe where space, time and physical laws are dramatically different. BLACK HOLE – 40 shotsįor this long sequence, we had to show the journey of SOTI around and inside a black hole. We tried to enhance the randomness of the electrons, correctly placed on their quantum orbit around the atom nucleus, and using symbolic colors to distinguish them. How show what could not be shot due to it's infinitesimally small size, yet still make it understandable and scientifically correct?
This was a challenging shot, more in a representation and artistic point of view than technically wise. ATOMES – 1 shotīUF had to make a hyper macro view of a stellar nursery cloud containing atoms of iron, oxygen and carbon. This created an opportunity for BUF to provide a more creative representation of space : cloudy nebula designed in a cathedral of smoke, tripods green nebulae, bubbly universe made of fractal spheres, gigantic electric arcs, or psychedelic full-blown roller coaster ride down the infinite regress. Because of their unknown nature, there was less scientific accuracy needed on these shots. The journey of SOTI takes the audience through various alien universes, as it jumps from one black hole to another, or when we are looking at future or distant places. and many others.Īs COSMOS' distinguishing feature is the Ship Of The Imagination (aka SOTI), BUF also worked on many shots with SOTI : animation, integration of the plate shot on the real set or on green screen with Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the 3D ship etc.
DESCARGAR COSMOS A SPACETIME ODYSSEY SERIES
Production schedule: October 2013 to April 2014 Sequences worked on by BUFīUF worked on 12 of the 13 episodes of COSMOS, A space-time Odyssey (episode 1 and episodes 3 to 13) and made a total of 260 VFX shots for the series which represent more than an hour of VFX.īUF's work was essentially concentrated on the challenge of space/universe representation : rides and travels into space, representation of events or physical phenomenons, in the past or in the future of the universe, such as black hole, nebula, dark matter, comet collisions, universe expansion. It's all about transformations of energy which is part of everything in the universe.Producer : Yann Suquet / Marguerite Moreau de Lizoreux What I had never heard of was the hypernova and the huge star Eta Carinae, whose explosion would wreak havoc on nearby star systems. The scene from the Australian outback is breathtaking. Of course, the intense gravity will force the outer part to collapse inward, forming a black hole. This shrinkage leads to a nova and finally a supernova and eventually a pulsar. After the collapse, the planets closest to the sun will be incinerated, leading to the production of other elements and will lead to great density and the sun will become a white dwarf. It then goes into a discussion of the collapse of stars, where core becomes mostly helium as the hydrogen burns off. It took great courage to challenge the idea that the stars contained the same metals that we find on earth when in reality, they are made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. It also looks at Cecilia Payne, one of the greatest of all astronomers.
This begins with "Pickering's Harem" a name given in jest to a group of women who catalogued over a million stars. As was usually the case, women who made major discoveries went unnoticed and under-appreciated.