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studio Lux Aeterna has built a reputation in effects for specialist factual television by transforming scientific concepts and data into breathtaking, cinematic scenes. The result makes science more accessible and entertaining – and has cemented its place as a leader in cinematic science-based visual effects.
“Sometimes, we’re able to visualise something that is impossible to see or imagine,” says Paul Silcox, VFX Director at Lux Aeterna. “The inside of the sun is one of those places. The team was tasked with imagining a journey through a sun spot, to the connective zone, through the radiative zone, and into the core – then seamlessly changing scale and jumping into the atomic realm.
When representing these, comments Tav Flett, Compositing Supervisor, “you’re essentially being asked to visualise a mathematical probability”. Instead, the team focused on capturing that otherworldly feeling of looking in on something which should not be visible to the human eye. Protons were represented by a black hole, and the surrounding, along with their interactions, was used to emphasise the forces involved in these reactions.
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