UK release information to follow.įollow Artem on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Horizon Line is available on US streaming platforms from January 2021 and releases on DVD/Blu Ray from 16th February. Both sets were installed and supported in the studio by the Artem team. Both boats were dressed with props and Artem technicians attended the shoot to provide support and to create splash and wave effects.įinally, Artem created a dive shop set, fully dressed with props and pre built in sections for assembly in the studio. The Artem team also created two large-scale boat props for the movie: one was a ‘wet boat’ section to sit on scaffold towers in the studio tank with a pneumatic system to create a rolling action and the other a replica full-sized boat deck – from the water line upwards – mounted on a wheeled rostra. The wide range of skills they bring to the table is always backed up by professionalism, flexibility, and great facilities – including a very useful backlot! This project really showcased how VFX and SFX departments can work together to create extraordinary effects.” Tim Field, Co-Producer As ever, Mike and the team were open to every challenge we threw at them. “Great to work with Artem on this project. The crashed plane prop was later refurbished to use in the studio, mounted on an air bellows rig for a rocking motion and a ring bearing to rotate it by 360 degrees. Shots of the shallow tank Artem built for Horizon Line.To cap off the backlot shoot Artem technicians lowered the crashed fuselage prop upside down into the water using Artem’s telehandler. Artem created a rig to smash a number of black buck elements, representing different sections of the plane, into the water at speed, and also created a debris-flying-through-air effect for this shot. The team also provided bubble rigs and air lines.įurther plane scenes involved the building of a large shallow tank (18m x 8m x0.5m) and a cyclorama (7m high by 15m wide) in Artem’s West London backlot, so that the production could shoot the impact of the plane as it hit the water. The film is about a woman named Sara (Williams) visiting the island of Mauritius for the wedding of a friend named.

The undulating sandy surface of this seabed was made from GRP in sections at Artem’s workshop and then assembled by Artem’s technicians in the underwater stage at Pinewood. Horizon Line is certainly that but perhaps not in the ways that were intended.

A pneumatic rig was devised to push the fuselage over the edge of an undersea cliff edge. The Artem team built the fuselage of a crashed GA8 plane for a sea-bed shoot, up-scaling it by 20% on actual size and making it entirely from aluminium to be suitable for underwater filming. In addition, the project involved the biggest backlot shoot at Artem’s West London workshop to date. Aerial shot of Artem’s West London backlot.ĭirected by Mikael Marcimain and produced by Fredrik Wikström, Horizon Line is a gripping survival thriller starring Alexander Dreymon ( The Last Kingdom) and Allison Williams ( Get Out) as ex-lovers forced to pull together when the pilot of their small plane dies, leaving them stranded in mid-air.Īrtem were asked to build a number of scenic elements, props and rigs for key scenes in the movie, working in close collaboration with VFX supervisor Tim Field, who co-produced Horizon Line.

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