Mechanism Digital Animates Impending Apocalypse for National Geographic
Summary
Mechanism’s artists and producers had the pleasure of creating photo realistic, New York City’s CitiCorp Building, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower.This was quickly followed by destroying CitiCorp in a horrific hurricane, sheering off George Washington’s face, toppling The Redeemer and burying Paris’s Eiffel Tower in the greatest sandstorm in history.Intergalactic and global shifts portrayed are based upon actual calculations of the gravitational effect of the Moon on the Earth, along with shifting of seas and atmospheres due to the resulting inverted axis of the Earth.One of the more memorable days of production for the Mechanism crew was hands-on experimentation where Art Director Mark Palkoski and VFX Supervisor Lucien Harriot paced the darkened studio with a globe and a flashlight -- spinning the earth and shining the flashlight as the sun.Through their calculations, they realized that the ice caps would completely melt and then reform above and below the equator, alternating each year.Earth Without the Moon is Mechanism Digital’s 9th creation for National Geographic.Previous specials included Secret World of Fireworks, Megastructures and Inside Grand Central.### Contact Information Mechanism Digital, Inc. Deborah Roth 646-230-0230 http://mechanismdigital.com Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Mechanism Digital, Inc. Promote Your Business Press Release Pricing Email this page to a friend