Imagine a world in which technology has become so advanced the wealthy all have self-driving cars, 3D-printed food, wrist holograms with which to speak to each other from afar and the option of liv…
“This crosses the lines of comedy and science fiction and the future, and it was a great challenge for us at Fuse because it shows our diversity,” says Marshall Krasser, visual effects supervisor. “If something exists out there, we had to take it up to the next level. What would be the wrist hologram phones 2.0? We had to be a little visionary.”
The design of the “real” world in “Upload” was “a little grittier; it’s not where you want to be,” says Krasser. “So when we got into the upload land, it needed to feel a little bit more pristine, a little cleaner — like you wanted to go there because it was nicer.” But, in order to remind the audience this was a digital world, Krasser and his team built in select glitches — “freezes and stutters,” he explains.
“The windows [only] had blue in them,” Krasser says. The joke was that there was an unfinished, blue-screen look. “But if you wanted to pay extra, you could get the [full] view. It all comes down to pay-per-use.” Lakeview isn’t the only digital afterlife option, and the show explores a few others in a scene in which Nathan goes “heaven shopping,” Krasser says. Characters sit in a sales agent’s office and the backdrop around them changes to the various options.
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