everybody we're back to talk about the
world engine and the black zero and how
these two things can terraform a planet
the first thing was just let's connect
these two objects together that's just a
simple blue beam that we called the
carrier beam now Zack talked a lot about
you know what was going to happen with a
gravity beam sort of pounding away in
Metropolis and we kind of knew that the
part of the world engine was going to
spew out particulate but we didn't
really know how the gravity beam and the
particulates and all that stuff would
work together it was a effect that that
developed over time I found it with all
of Zach's cool sci-fi effects ideas
there's there are some like interesting
little offshoots that occur in the
design and it makes for an interesting
looking effect and one of the things
that he brought to me really early on
was a reference for a water ring like
out in the middle of the desert and he
was thinking maybe that can happen in
the Indian Ocean that there's an area
where the gravity is just negated
completely and water forms there and I
said okay well if that happens there
then the debris and metropolis should
form a similar ring around the black
zero and that way we have two common
things now how do those things get there
and that's when we decided okay
the the gravity wave works where it
pounds but then it travels through the
center of the earth and then ups the
world engine that's the part that lifts
things on the Indian Ocean side mainly
water and then it goes back through the
core of the earth and back up to
Metropolis back up to the black zero
that's the part that rips everything off
the ground that's not nailed down in
this case a lot of cars and people and
things like that so imagine that's
getting lifted up it gets slammed right
back down and flattened goes through the
center of the earth water gets lifted up
slammed back down into the ground and
it's just forming wave upon wave
wherever it's hitting because these
things build up and that's how you get
the radius of the gravity expansion so I
really liked it even though it took us
months probably to come up with those
connected ideas it created a flow to the
event and Scott Hecker and his guys made
the greatest sound effect I think using
a theremin to really drive home
the the power of this crazy if they call
it a weapon but it's really a tool to
manipulate a planet's ecosystem and
environment to conceive mission of
lowering and he's going to turn
they also he goes that what I think it
is right right we kind of jumped into
that so you're actually feeding them
lowered onto that thing well as you're
watching the world engine and you're
seeing it unleash its defenses those
defenses are actually the largest scale
version of the liquid geo effect that we
have in the movie
we decided that actually Zack decided
that that would be a really good defense
tool not just a display mechanism and it
took a long time of looking at the world
engine and realizing there's some great
spots we could put three large pools of
liquid Geo in there and Zack described
all the sort of defensive arm motion it
could do and that became a really cool
Superman robot fight that we could get
into the movie I like and say is enjoy
it it's the most frantic crazy liquid
geo Superman fight you'll ever see
everybody we need to get out of the
building right now like a little Syria
yeah nobody on the stairs no I want all
of you understand and you'll get back if
you want ripped off see if we can get
you guys you know you're not to stay
with you a little longer let's say with
a soy sauce what's wrong
- crashing big explosion hey action
wanna slide back in here really quickly
briefly tell you what it was like
shooting the scenes exteriors while you
know the world is ending this fall in
Chicago unfeasibly warm very nice
weather myself and about 300 background
artists all running from one place to
another place all day long but it was a
good workout was a good workout that day
you know did a lot of laps that day
lotta laps and it was great
Zach was very encouraging knees took a
bit of a beating that day but for the
most part I think it turned out great I
mean it certainly looks like the
buildings are coming down when in fact
they were just standing still