Trevor Hogg heads to ground zero to unearth the secrets of The Creator
A retro rather than predictive future was adopted for TheCreator Conceptualising the section of the NOMAD space station known as the Hub Complicating matters for visual effects was that reference data was not always collected during shoot days
A former subscriber to 3D World is filmmaker Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) who used the magazine as a resource during his early days as a visual effects artist. “I was happiest as a person doing visual effects,” admits Edwards. “Making films is crazy stressful. Someone gives you tens of millions of dollars and then you have to promise to give it back as a profit a few years from now; it’s quite a trick trying to pull that off.”
Gareth Edwards as camera operator and, inset, the final shot The urban environment principal photography took place in Bangkok, with megastructures added to give it a more futuristic look
Streamlining the shooting process is the fact that Edwards acts as his own camera operator. “There are probably a few reasons why I like to hold the camera,” he says, “but in terms of visual effects one big reason is that in a science fiction movie, 30 per cent of what’s going to be in that final shot isn’t actually th
