Quantum Leap Season 1-VFX Legion Breakdown Reel
- last year
British Columbia, CA - VFX Legion created over 100 digital effects for the premiere season of NBC Television Network’s new series ‘Quantum Leap,’ creator Donald P. Bellisario’s revival of the '90s sci-fi cult classic. Stepping in during pre-production of the first episode, the LA and B.C.-based company created a complex mix of 2D and 3D assets across the first season.
Co-Founders James David Hattin, Creative Director/VFX Supervisor, and VFX Producer Nate Smalley put together a bespoke group of artists with a range of disciplines. Hattin, based at Legion’s flagship facility in Burbank, headed up the project. Working seamlessly as a single unit, the studio’s team in BC and LA created a wide range of shots, compositing multiple digital elements that deliver powerful imagery.
A Diverse Mix of VFX:
Artists built a variety of complex computer-generated elements from the ground up, including a 747 jumbo jet, and digitally rendered skies. The team designed the aircraft’s flight control panel illuminating gages with an animated mix of vivid colors. Undulating runway lights viewed from the cockpit window provide visual cues for the nighttime landing.
Digitally constructed shots include a multi-level nuclear reactor cooling room, an asylum, high-rise buildings, a turret on a battleship, and a hologram. Set extensions replace large-scale blue screens with a digitally rendered mountain range, skies, and interior walls; matte paintings projected onto geometry 2.5D extend environments.
Dynamics augment shots with fluid simulations, rain, thunder, clouds, fire, explosions, smoke, and debris replicating the organic look of real-world forces. Artists digitally deleted rigging, wires, and elements captured by the camera that didn't fit with the look of specific periods.
A continuum of the original ‘Quantum Leap’ premise - following time travelers to the past - the show makes its first journey to the ‘far future. Visual storytelling driven by a sequence of new effects works in tandem with the narrative to bring the new scenario to life.
CREDITS:
Project - ‘Quantum Leap’ / Season 1 (2022-2023)
Genre - TV Series - sci-fi, adventure, drama
Premiere -9/19/2022, NBC TV, Peacock
Donald P. Bellisario – creator, writer, executive producer
Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt – developed by
Martin Gero - executive producer, showrunner
Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt, Deborah Pratt, Helen Shaver, Dean Georgaris – executive producers
Trent Smith – series visual effects supervisor
VFX Company/Season 1 - VFX Legion BC|LA
James David Hattin - VFX supervisor
Nate Smalley - VXF producer
Eugen Olsen - compositor
Dylan Yastremski - chief technology officer
Matthew Noren - VFX production coordinator
Blake Anderson - cg supervisor
Nick Guth - compositor
Nolan Conrad - compositor
Ruy Delgado - tracking artist
Co-Founders James David Hattin, Creative Director/VFX Supervisor, and VFX Producer Nate Smalley put together a bespoke group of artists with a range of disciplines. Hattin, based at Legion’s flagship facility in Burbank, headed up the project. Working seamlessly as a single unit, the studio’s team in BC and LA created a wide range of shots, compositing multiple digital elements that deliver powerful imagery.
A Diverse Mix of VFX:
Artists built a variety of complex computer-generated elements from the ground up, including a 747 jumbo jet, and digitally rendered skies. The team designed the aircraft’s flight control panel illuminating gages with an animated mix of vivid colors. Undulating runway lights viewed from the cockpit window provide visual cues for the nighttime landing.
Digitally constructed shots include a multi-level nuclear reactor cooling room, an asylum, high-rise buildings, a turret on a battleship, and a hologram. Set extensions replace large-scale blue screens with a digitally rendered mountain range, skies, and interior walls; matte paintings projected onto geometry 2.5D extend environments.
Dynamics augment shots with fluid simulations, rain, thunder, clouds, fire, explosions, smoke, and debris replicating the organic look of real-world forces. Artists digitally deleted rigging, wires, and elements captured by the camera that didn't fit with the look of specific periods.
A continuum of the original ‘Quantum Leap’ premise - following time travelers to the past - the show makes its first journey to the ‘far future. Visual storytelling driven by a sequence of new effects works in tandem with the narrative to bring the new scenario to life.
CREDITS:
Project - ‘Quantum Leap’ / Season 1 (2022-2023)
Genre - TV Series - sci-fi, adventure, drama
Premiere -9/19/2022, NBC TV, Peacock
Donald P. Bellisario – creator, writer, executive producer
Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt – developed by
Martin Gero - executive producer, showrunner
Steven Lilien, Bryan Wynbrandt, Deborah Pratt, Helen Shaver, Dean Georgaris – executive producers
Trent Smith – series visual effects supervisor
VFX Company/Season 1 - VFX Legion BC|LA
James David Hattin - VFX supervisor
Nate Smalley - VXF producer
Eugen Olsen - compositor
Dylan Yastremski - chief technology officer
Matthew Noren - VFX production coordinator
Blake Anderson - cg supervisor
Nick Guth - compositor
Nolan Conrad - compositor
Ruy Delgado - tracking artist