“Mission to Mars” by The Secret Lab
Title:
- Mission to Mars
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Description:
An expedition to Mars is destroyed by a monstrous vortex of dust and wind, a natural phenomenon with supernatural qualities. For “Mission to Mars,” The Secret Lab, formerly Dream Quest Images, was charged with creation and animation of this character, investing it with a menacing and predatory nature. The process began with conceptual art and animatics depicting vortex movements that suggested a purposeful choreography while also indicating flow, intensity, visibility, motion blur, and wind direction. The computationally intensive final shots were executed with Hookah, the company’s proprietary fluiddynamics simulator and volumetric renderer, which was also used on “Armageddon.”
Additional Contributors:
Producer: Tom Jacobson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Hoyt Yeatman
Visual Effects Producer: Rae Griffith-Gagnon
Digital Effects Supervisor: Darin Hollings
Animation Supervisor: Matt O’Callaghan
CG supervisor: Scott Gordon
CG Supervisor: Teddy Yang
Compositing Supervisor: Blaine Kennison
Art Director: Peter Lloyd
Software Developer: Lewis Siegel
