I personally feel that our visual interpretation of gravitational events holds up as a piece of data design but also as an iconic visual element for the film. We’re all huge fans of the Matrix films at Territory. The screens in those films are incredibly iconic and serve as a lens into a virtual world. Our hope and intent was to provide the directors with a similar graphic language that both functioned as a screen graphic but also as a representation of how people/aliens understand the world/universe around them.
An original science fiction action adventure from Lana and Andy Wachowski, we were approached to work with The Wachowski’s art team to create a series of animated screen graphics. Production designer Hugh Bateup was interested in a unique view of the galaxy through graphic displays, and asked us to craft concepts that would feature as part of the navigation systems in a number of spacecraft scenes. We specifically looked at a visual way
of bringing gravitational forces to life on screen, and spent a lot of time exploring how best to use isometric lines, normally used to describe weather fronts, to represent gravity and other invisible forces. We then went on to create content based around warped time, wormhole travel, activating/deactivating force fields and planetary systems.
