UPP reveals the spacecraft production techniques
from the movie "Voyagers". Marvelous Designer played a crucial role in crafting realistic spaceships.

Interview with UPP | Voyager | VFX Studio

Could you introduce your studio?

UPP is an international VFX and Post Production Studio. Since its establishment in 1994, UPP has become one of the largest and most versatile Visual Effects and Post Production Houses in Mainland Europe. With teams in Prague and Budapest, we work with filmmakers and clients from all over the world.

Could you briefly introduce the project: Voyagers?

The Voyagers Project is about a crew of astronauts on a multi-generational mission descending into paranoia and madness, unable to determine what is real and what isn't.

Directed by: Neil Burger

Produced by: Basil Iwanyk, Neil Burger, Brendon Boyea

Stars: Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, Fionn Whitehead and Lily-Rose Depp

Can you explain how Marvelous Designer was used for the spacesuit and its impact on this project?

When we created the spacesuit in a bag for the Voyager project, we based it on a photogrammetric scan.We created the spacesuit in a bag in individual layers.

Our goal was to approach the production as efficiently as possible, therefore we produced the entire asset, except for small details, in Marvelous Designer.

Apart from the spacesuit, which other objects were created using Marvelous Designer?

We also used Marvelous Designer to easily create the fabric covering the spaceship's hull.

Below we will present a series of images that present step-by-step how the cloth pieces were created for a specific piece that is part of the spaceship.

• Collision model of the structure under the cloth - Creation of basic parts of the cloth - UV layout of the basic cloth parts

• Stitching of individual basic cloth parts with basic sewing parameter settings - First simulation of the cloth to get the basic shape

• Adjusting the pressure parameter to obtain a better shape - Simulation with the cloth pinned to the construction - Extra cloth parts added to the edges of the construction (The extra cloth tubes give us a better shape)

• Simulation with the extra cloth tubes-UV layout of the basic cloth parts with extra cloth tubes

• The following images show the final results before and after rendering.

Do you recommend using Marvelous Designer?

Marvelous Designer is an incredibly user-friendly software thanks to its many features. One of the most important is the ability to freeze and deactivate patterns, which allows you to speed up simulations and create more complex patterns. It is also possible to create patterns directly on an avatar or import OBJ as a garment.