Across the four-part Netflix documentary series The Dinosaurs, produced by Silverback Films in association with Amblin Entertainment and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the story moves across vast spans of geological time. Continents drift, climates transform, and entire ecosystems emerge and disappear within a single shot.

To make those temporal leaps understandable on screen, Lux Aeterna developed a visual approach that translates complex scientific data into cinematic imagery. Drawing on geological models, satellite datasets and atmospheric simulation, the studio designed large-scale planetary transitions that allow audiences to witness the slow evolution of Earth within continuous camera moves.

In this session, the team will explore how those sequences were created, from procedural environment systems built in Houdini to the techniques used to connect shifting landscapes, oceans and atmospheres across millions of years.