This week as part of our extensive MOS coverage, Mike Seymour chats to Weta Digital visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon about Zack Synder’s Man of Steel. Weta handled scenes on Superman’s home planet of Krypton, including the unique digital communication ‘liquid geo’ displays.
And see our written article for an in-depth look at the visual effects of Man of Steel, and stay tuned for our fxguidetv episode on the film.
[…] FX Podcast #251 – [Audio] Talking specifically with WETA about Liquid Geo in greater detail than the WIRED feature; a video version is available… somewhere, no time to find it now, sorry! […]
[…] The only line of dialog mentioning the benefits of Earth’s environment are when Jor-El says, “Earth’s gravity is weaker, yet its atmosphere is more nourishing.” However, he is not tying, restricting, or basing Kal’s powers in Earth’s gravity or atmosphere. Jor-El is merely explain how an alien could live in the environment of another world, which sets up the weakness when Kal-El collapses on the Black Zero. Note that Jor-El mentions these qualities of Earth together and in the same sentence, therefore any reliance on this line of dialog as an explanation for the powers should rely on both atmosphere AND gravity. Yet, we’ve seen Superman demonstrate powers both in the vacuum of space and under the World Engine’s gravity beam, so these do not appear to be constraints or sources of his power. Nor does gravity appear to be a significant factor between Krypton or Earth at all since Lois is able to freely move about the Black Zero and we can observe their relative gravities to be similar (as acknowledged by the VFX houses). […]