Documentary filmmaker Ryan White calls his latest project, “Good Night Oppy,”(in theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime Video on November 23) his “COVID baby” because this was the one project h…
,” his “COVID baby” because this was the one project he could work on during the pandemic when all his other projects got shut down.
. However, his toughest challenge he says was showing the landing, which turned out to be a collaborative effort with the ILM team. Initially, the scene was going to be the documentary’s cold open. But that changed once White was in the edit room. “We started to realize you don’t understand the stakes unless you’ve given something around it. It means less to the audience if it opens cold versus if opens with a little bit of knowledge .
The scene was one of the first White started to work on in visual effects because he knew it would be the most complicated. “We knew we were going to be photo-real because he had 3D renderings [of the robots] from NASA. Once we had that, we rendered the spacecraft and all the different stages of the spacecraft landing.”
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