Postcard from Earth is the first immersive production made for MSG Sphere, the state-of-the-art sphere-shaped venue that opened in Las Vegas in the Fall of 2023. Director Darren Aronofsky created, directed, and produced the film which was captured on a bespoke camera system called 'Big Sky', a single-lens camera with a 316-megapixel, 3-inch x 3-inch HDR image sensor that can capture 18Kx18K images up to 120 frames per second. Crafting visual effects for the film was an incredible challenge, but one ILM Visual Effects Supervisor Bill George and his crew were excited to tackle. Their efforts were rewarded with the 2024 VES Award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project.

ILM leveraged every ounce of its artist’s vast expertise in creating fully CG photoreal environments to generate Terabytes of media at an eye-watering 16K x 16K resolution to fill Sphere’s 580,000 square feet of LEDs. The team also delivered multiple loopable segments at varying lengths that could be sequenced at random to suit U2’s desired performance timing all in service of telling a story like no other and enabling the band to, once again, push the bounds of what a live performance can be.