Streaming The Stand miniseries on CBS All Access during the pandemic has art imitating life, as the novel published by horror author Stephen King in 1978 imagines a world decimated by a lethal strain of influenza that was accidentally released by a military research facility. The project had just finished principal photography and the second round of shooting in Las Vegas was about to commence when the work at home edict was implemented globally.

Little did director/writer/Visual Effects Supervisor Nicholas Ashe Bateman realize that he would embark on five-year odyssey involving 40 days of principal photography divided into two sections captured over a period of two years and followed by three years in post-production where the visual effects shots doubled from 300 to 600.

Visual Effects Supervisor Roni Rodrigues talks about recreating San Antonio and Dallas during the Civil War era.

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