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Disney+ series hands the baton over to ILM's StageCraft sets which have been used to craft the virtual environment, and for help in rendering out its appearance the makers turned to fan art.
Walker Scobell in ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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Following the second episode where it’s revealed that Percy (Walker Scobell) is the son of Poseidon, he along with Grover (Aryan Simhadri) and Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) begins their quest to return the Master Bolt to Olympus. Visiting the “Garden Gnome Emporium” of Medusa is quite a thriller indeed, but mostly everything has been crafted out within the StageCraft set in British Columbia, using the ILM-designed space to render Camp Half-Blood and the other locations.
According to production designer Dan Hennah, “It’s real, it’s very cool”. Photo by Kinney Coughlin, Warner Bros./Courtesy of Everett Collection. You’re stepping into your own illusion, which is very cool. The Percy Jackson and the Olympians has a good amount of description of places and objects, but they’re not illustrated. The VFX supervisor Erik Henry said “I hope that people will like what we did”.
The waterfall and volcano in the background were among the additions, as were glimpses of a paddock for flying horses kept at the camp, allusions to the second book in the series. continue reading…Read More rnrn