{"id":23740,"date":"2026-04-02T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23740"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:30:33","slug":"inside-the-design-of-project-hail-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/inside-the-design-of-project-hail-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the design of &#8220;Project Hail Mary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I <em>love love love<\/em> the attention to detail that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller brought to the film. Check out the lengths they &amp; their crew went to on everything from devising rotating lights for the inter-ship tunnel (conveying constant rotation) to nailing film grain. And I love the exuberance &amp; generosity of creators in sharing so many insights into design &amp; process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Project Hail Mary: The Rocky Puppet Trick That Changed the Movie | Collider BTS\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UxJEmTYlZyk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adam Savage Behind the Scenes of Project Hail Mary!\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CO6oyFP14rU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love love love the attention to detail that Phil Lord and Christopher Miller brought to the film. Check out the lengths they &amp; their crew went to on everything from devising rotating lights for the inter-ship tunnel (conveying constant rotation) to nailing film grain. And I love the exuberance &amp; generosity of creators in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23789,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions\/23789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}