New ‘Man of Steel’ Featurette Highlights Weta’s “Liquid-Geo” Special Effect
A new featurette for Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel has been released and it highlights how the incredible visual effects artists at Weta Digital used fluid simulation technology to bring the film’s “liquid-geo” displays to life. “Basically, it’s a bunch of silver beads that are suspended through a magnetic field, and the machine is able to control that magnetic field so that the collection of beads behave almost like three-dimensional pixels,” said Weta’s visual effects supervisor Dan Lemmon. The clip is definitely worth a watch so check it out below.
In the pantheon of superheroes, Superman is the most recognized and revered character of all time. Clark Kent/Kal-El (Cavill) is a young twentysomething journalist who feels alienated by powers beyond anyone’s imagination. Transported to Earth years ago from Krypton, an advanced alien planet, Clark struggles with the ultimate question – Why am I here? Shaped by the values of his adoptive parents Martha (Lane) and Jonathan Kent (Costner), Clark soon discovers that having super abilities means making very difficult decisions. But when the world needs stability the most, it comes under attack. Will his abilities be used to maintain peace or ultimately used to divide and conquer? Clark must become the hero known as “Superman,” not only to shine as the world’s last beacon of hope but to protect the ones he loves.