Constellation

An Apple original 8 part series being slated as a ‘psychological thriller’, Constellation follows Jo, a woman who returns to Earth after a disaster in space — only to discover that key pieces of her life seem to be missing. The action-packed space adventure is an exploration of the dark edges of human psychology, and one woman’s desperate quest to expose the truth about the hidden history of space travel and recover all that she has lost.

The work One of Us delivered consisted of full CG exterior ISS/Earth space shots, set extensions of both the exterior and interior of the ISS, zero gravity FX blood and fire, an animated sequence of the Soyuz capsule reentering earth as well as a CG Dead Russian cosmonaut and some pretty graphic CG gore.

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Constellation: Doug Larmour – Production VFX Supervisor

“We also collated a huge library of images to use as reference both of the ISS and Earth from space. We were adamant that we didn’t want the exterior wides of the ISS to feel too CG and made sure that we had a physically shot reference photo (of which NASA have many) for every scene to match to. In this regard I’m very proud of the work that One of Us did.”

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