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An origin story for Captain Nemo, the legendary anti-hero of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Produced for Disney+, Nautilus is a high-concept adventure series shot in Queensland, following a brilliant young prince turned pirate as he wages war against the colonial empire that enslaved him — aboard the world's most extraordinary submarine.
The series demanded VFX that could hold up across a wide range of environments — from intimate fire-lit interiors to expansive open ocean.
Future Associate delivered VFX across the full series run. The scope ranged from large-scale environment design to highly technical simulation work — with the ocean alone requiring ten distinct visual treatments across episodes.
The fire sequences were a particular technical challenge: building convincing embers, smoke, and flame reflections on high-gloss surfaces, with CG smoke generated in EmberGen and grounded using a 3D Lidar scan of the physical set so the billowing volumes would interact accurately with the architecture.