Watch: A new ILM video on the visual effects of Noah

Noah wasn’t nominated for any Oscars, but it was nominated for a Visual Effects Society award — and since the winners of those awards are being announced tonight, it might not be coincidence that Industrial Light & Magic released a three-minute video yesterday showcasing some of the work that they did on this film.

Here is the video:

I especially like the bit where visual effects supervisor Ben Snow compares the first aerial shot of the Ark to one of those Enterprise flybys in the Star Trek movies.

Noah is nominated in the category of ‘Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture’. The other films nominated in that category are Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Interstellar and Lucy.

Noah’s visual effects also got a nod from the Annie Awards, which honour excellence in animation. The film was nominated for ‘Outstanding Achievement in Animated Effects in a Live Action Production’, though it lost to Edge of Tomorrow.

You can read more about the film’s visual effects in this interview round-up.

Check out earlier Noah videos and my shot-by-shot trailer analyses here:

• The first domestic and international trailers (November 14, 2013)
• The second international trailer (November 29, 2013)
• The Japanese trailer (December 3, 2013)
• The Super Bowl TV spot (January 29, 2014)
• The Russian TV spots (February 6, 2014)
• The Brazilian trailer (February 16, 2014)
• The ‘Tyrant’ TV spot (February 24, 2014)
• The ‘Beginnings’ page on the movie’s website (February 27, 2014)
• The ‘Protect’ TV spot and ‘The Flood’ motion poster (February 28, 2014)
• The ‘Ark’ featurette, the ‘Ark Experience’ page on the movie’s website, the ‘Growth’ motion poster and the ‘Chosen’ TV spot (March 6, 2014)
• The ‘We Build an Ark’ clip and the extended international TV spot (March 10, 2014)
• The second domestic trailer with Emma Watson intro (March 11, 2014)
• The ‘Begins’, ‘Live’, ‘Storm’, ‘Redemption’ and ‘Survive’ TV spots and the Empire motion poster (March 13, 2014)
• The Peruvian TV spot (March 15, 2014)
• The ‘It Begins’ clip, some Emma Watson soundbites, some B-roll footage and the first two Damaris Trust videos (March 19, 2014)
• The ‘Tubal-Cain’ featurette and some more B-roll footage (March 20, 2014)
• The ‘I’m Not Alone’ clip, the music video, the faith leaders video and the EPK (March 24, 2014)
• The ‘We Take the Ark’ clip, the ‘Animals’ featurette and a TV spot (March 25, 2014)
• The ‘The Flood’ clip (March 28, 2014)
• The ‘Clint Mansell’s Score’ featurette and the Kim Walker-Smith music video (April 3, 2014)
• The critics’ quotes TV spot (April 8, 2014)
• The ‘Creation’ clip (May 10, 2014)
• Five clips from the Blu-Ray featurettes (July 15, 2014)
• An infographic and an Ark-building app (August 4, 2014)
• A clip from one of the Blu-Ray featurettes, an interview clip, and a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video (August 8, 2014)
• Three clips on the film’s makeup team (December 15, 2014)
• The Google Hangout with the sound editors (December 22, 2014)