shots for the first episode alone. This was in great part due to the opening aerial chase sequence shot over a blue screen canyon.
Fleet collaborated with production designer Arvinder Greywal to help bring that scene to life through that combination of in-camera shots and visual effects. “He stuck to his dogma of using a little blue, green screen as possible,” Fleet says. For that, it was up to visual effects supervisor R. Christopher White to bring AJ Carmichael, a talking fish that usually operates a robot-humanoid body, to life. In the sequence, AJ is in a fishbowl.
Other nominees in the single episode visual-effects category this year include “Star Trek: Discovery” for the 11th episode of Season 3, “Su’kal,” and “The Crown” for the fourth season premiere, “Gold Stick.”