Making CGI magic in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’

There’s something extraordinary about finding a way to visualise someone’s wildest imaginations. This is especially true when taking a fantasy book and adapting it to the big screen.

Sebastian Reichhold, an FX technical director with the London-based studio One of US, had to figure out how to make the impossible possible for Disney’s 2018 fantasy film Wrinkle in Time.

“There’s a particular effect Oprah Winfrey in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’.

that goes throughout the movie. It was a distortion of reality, because the characters travel through the fifth dimension through time and space, and we had to visualise that,” said Reichhold at SICFF.

“First, we were stunned, like, what? We came up with some ideas working closely with the director, and we found a way,” he added.

For Reichhold, who is specialised in dynamic simulations, fantasy has always been an important genre. “The new technology age is very important to me, because we are able to create almost every imagination we could possibly have in our heads. We can create worlds,” he said. — M.H.