Breaking down the coolest scene from ‘Ad Astra’

December 14, 2019
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The moon rover sequence from Ad Astra was a lot of fun. And, the way it was made – shooting real rovers in a desert location, using infrared to get that moonscape look, and then augmenting much of the scene with VFX – was fascinating.

I wrote about the work here with the team from Method Studios.

The new video has a lot more on-set footage than I’d seen before. Definitely recommend checking it out.

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