Revenant VFX Adds to Dramatic Apollo 13: Survival Documentary [Video]

The Glasgow-based VFX house Revenant worked alongside the Insight Film team, producers Clive Patterson and Hugh Davies, and director Peter Middleton to deliver CG animation, high level compositing, and VFX for the new documentary Apollo 13: Survival, now streaming on Netflix. The studio’s work supported the film’s narrative by ensuring the story is as compelling visually as it is emotionally.

Apollo 13: Survival chronicles the most iconic crisis in spaceflight history. In 1970, nine months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a catastrophic explosion left three astronauts stranded halfway to the Moon. Over the next four days, NASA’s rescue mission, a life-or-death drama, was broadcast in real-time to the anxiously watching world.

The film opens up a time capsule of rare audio and visuals from the shuttle, NASA’s control center, and the astronauts’ families. The Revenant team set out to enrich this archival atmosphere and aid the storytelling in a historically accurate way with a …