#INTERSTELLAR BLACK HOLE MOVIE#

The result is one of the greatest and most memorable visual effects in cinematic history. It might seem like overkill, but it's hard to argue it wasn't worth it. Given the new instructions, the computer took more than 100 hours to render certain frames. One of the biggest problems the team faced was getting their rendering program to treat light as if it traveled along curved paths (as it would near a massive object like a black hole, as per Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity). After weeks of exhaustive research, Thorne sent the math to Franklin, whose team used it to build a black hole.Īccording to Wired, recreating the black hole required a year of work and a team of over 30 people. I said, 'Sure, send him over.'' Visual effects supervisor Paul Franklin arrived and asked Thorne to develop equations that would simulate real world physics for their effects software. As Thorne explained to Wired, 'Chris called me and said he wanted to send a guy over to my house to talk to me about the visual effects.

#INTERSTELLAR BLACK HOLE MOVIE#

Nowhere in the movie is this more evident than in its depiction of the black hole ('Gargantua'). Really treating the IMAX camera like a GoPro camera.' One paper was written about gravitational scattering and the reason why the light bends around the black hole, and the other was written for the VFX. 'Well, certainly proved that is a fallacy.' Nolan himself added, 'The camera department had to take a very experimental approach to the way we wanted to shoot the film with the IMAX cameras. After some more research and mathematical exploration, the scientists learned that the black hole actually bent the light passing by it, so when looking at the black hole, you were seeing all of the way around it The discoveries of the black hole scene in Interstellar were so accurate that scientific papers were actually written after it. 'People said you can never hold an IMAX camera,' said IMAX Corp. So the crew got creative, eventually mounting the beast on helmets, the front of planes, and even bodies. This included hand-held shots, which were deemed infeasible due to the camera's weight. Still, Nolan, a steadfast champion of the format who proved it could be done, demanded the camera be used to grab as many shots as possible. They can get gorgeous shots, but it takes a lot of infrastructure to support one, and therefore, it wasn't feasible to film a whole movie using one until a few years after Interstellar came out ( Avengers: Infinity War was the first movie shot entirely on IMAX).

Thing is, IMAX cameras are massive, unwieldy behemoths.

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