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To create the Life After People scenes, a huge team of animators and engineers, as well as scientists and other experts speculated on how civilization would crumble, and model it thereafter. There were several compilations and videos detailing the process.

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A video detailing how the effects of Life After People was created, was released in some versions of the documentary, to show the audience how this future was brought to life.

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Hundreds of years into a future without people. Chicago's Sears Tower crumbles to the ground. The Seattle Space Needle topples. And the Golden Gate Bridge collapses into the bay. A decayed, vulnerable Eiffel Tower succumbs to a windstorm. One after another. The History Channel's major new documentary event, LIFE AFTER PEOPLE, brought to life these haunting visions of our planet's possible future. To accomplish this, an innovative collaboration emerged among the producers, leading Hollywood visual effects artists, and some of the world's preeminent civil engineers, like Gordon Masterton. The approach was straightforward. Select notable landmarks from around the world, and then figure out how they would deteriorate, and eventually fall. Working with Masterton and other engineers, the production team developed scenarios for each of their subjects, these sessions were followed by storyboards, next, the drawings were sent to the engineers for approval. Many aspects of the design, including climate, size & weight, & building materials, had to be considered before they signed on. The storyboards then went to the visual effects teams, who quickly generated simple graphics and animatics, again, the engineers were brought in to approve the work in progress. Once the animatic was okay, the effects teams filled in the picture, with time and location, specific vegetation, corrosion like rust, and native wildlife. whatever was needed to bring the viewer into this world. while we obviously will never witness life after people, the team that created the visual effects for this History Channel special, has given us an amazing glimpse of what this future might look like.

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