The video above for Max & Harvey – Space Therapy may look like a still picture with a simple animated starfield backdrop but in fact like many special effects these days there is a lot more going on behind the scenes. For over six months the great people at Weta Digital helped by an additional sub team, with members from Industrial Light and Magic, worked tirelessly to bring to you what appears on first glance to be something so simple. Each Star (or Sun) represented in the video was carefully and individually animated and rendered for the ultimate in realism. Below you can see a rough animated mock up of just one of the Suns used to make up the starfield. [Read more…]