Moonfall: When Pixomondo Played God with the Moon
If you've ever wondered what happens when a visual effects studio has too much budget and very little fear of ridicule, Moonfall is the answer 🌕💥. Pixomondo took on the challenge of making the impossible believable: our satellite becoming the ultimate villain.
The menu of challenges included:
- Planetary simulations: because destroying a city is for beginners
- Altered gravitational physics: where Newton's laws are just suggestions
- Cosmic scale effects: when "big" is not enough
"Working on Moonfall was like having a license to drive all the physicists in the world crazy"
Between renders that consumed more energy than a small city and simulations that made servers cry, the team managed to create a visual spectacle that left half of Hollywood wondering: "what were they thinking?" 🚀.
Fun fact: the lunar tsunami scene required more computing power than all seasons of Game of Thrones combined. At least now we know that the apocalypse would look pretty in 4K.
If after watching this breakdown you don't understand why the Moon hasn't rebelled before, it's because you didn't know Pixomondo and their ability to make the absurd plausible 😉.