They had to be moved at night under highway patrol escort, on a route that was calculated to avoid bridges." 2. They had to be brought from the airplane junkyard in Victorville, California, to Falls Lake at Universal Studios outside Los Angeles. "Used-up aircraft become some discounted amount of scrap aluminum. It's not easy to re-create a plane crash on a river, but that's what visual-effects supervisor Michael Owens and cinematographer Tom Stern did for director Clint Eastwood's Sully. We stitched all those shots together, and then we reverse-engineered the camera, locking it to the faces of the actor, and the motion-control would do all the camera moves as if they were flying in the air." The result is a seamless transition and an elegant leap from Earth's gravity to the walls of the spacecraft. The first camera was wild"-that is, run by an operator-"and the second camera was motion-controlled with a rig called the Technodolly. "Then the camera would move to the second set, where we would have the people landing.
"We first shot the actors faking the jumping element," Morin says. To make it work, visual-effects supervisor Louis Morin drew inspiration from Gravity, seamlessly integrating two sets to give the impression that the characters were physically hopping from Earth's gravity at the base of the ship to the vessel's, which stems from the walls, changing the viewer's perspective from horizontal to vertical. "The characters need to jump and walk up-it's a leap of faith," Vermette says. "So, we said, 'Well, maybe there should be a gravity shift there.' "Īrrival's creative team approached the complicated shot from two angles: as a philosophical comment and a logistical puzzle. "The scissor lift just wasn't tall enough," says Vermette.
The shift was dreamed up after production designer Patrice Vermette and director Denis Villeneuve had to abandon an initial idea in which Louise and her team simply rose up to the top of the ship with a scissor lift. When Amy Adams's character Louise first visits the aliens who land on Earth in Arrival, she learns something incredible about their spaceship: It has its own internal gravity, which shifts partway up the vessel.
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