All the FX Tricks Used to Make the AwesomeStar TrekCredits

After the opening teaser scene in this summer ’s Star Trek : Into Darkness , the picture bursts into a batshit knocked out space championship recognition sequence , which gear up the blood line - seethe tone for the rest of the adventure . Here ’s a behind - the - scenes look at how those rad 3D graphic were made .

The video above , made byspecial effects company Video Copilot , takes a riveting look at the After Effects tricks the company used to create everything from the three-D - asteroid flyover to the blurred atmospherics of the motion-picture show ’s fast - paced titles . In particular , it ’s interesting to see the screenshots of the computing gadget graphics in onward motion before they ’re return and exported for the big screenland .

The video is partially a plug for Video Copilot ’s AE plugin , Element three-D , which who can blame them for the ego - furtherance , but I wish they ’d cut off some of the cheese - ball antics and nonplus to the goodness . Luckily , the CG specialists are effective at VFX than they are at comedy : The last five minutes of this picture are well deserving your meter . [ Video Copilot ]