Fxguide visited Industrial Light & Magic, the film’s lead vendor, to interview Guyett and other members of the Trek effects crew. We spoke also to Pixomondo and Atomic Fiction about their contributions to this newest Bad Robot production. Here’s a look at just some of the main sequences the visual effects teams worked on.
Visual effects supervisor Roger Guyett describes his overall approach to the effects in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness as “we want to make people feel like they’re really there.” It’s an approach Guyett, who also supervised Abrams’ first Star Trek, had adopted straight from the director. “He likes things to feel kind of tactile and believable in a fundamental way. If you look at the kind of choices we have made, we tended to err on what I would call the practical side of things. It’s not a concept art version of San Francisco or a city, it’s a working version.”
Here is a list of subjects that is included in the article:
Planet Nibiru
- The red forest
- Spock in the volcano
Starfleet headquarters attack
Qo’noS
- The chase
- Ground battle
Ships in space
The swirling Enterprise
Ships on earth
Garbage barge fight
Final frontier
Click here to read the article Star Trek: Into Darkness: VFX makes it so
Click here to watch the interview: Star Trek: Into Darkness at ILM
Click here to listen to the podcast: Star Trek: Into Darkness – ILM’s comp pipeline
Original source FX Guide
