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By Jon Donnis
BBC Studios is set to explore the incredible history of life on Earth with Evolution, a new five-part science series presented by Chris Packham.
The series will reveal how life has transformed over more than four billion years, using the latest scientific discoveries and immersive visual effects to uncover the evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing found on the planet today.
Rather than following a straightforward timeline, Evolution will take a different approach by focusing each episode on the deep evolutionary story of one iconic modern animal. Through these journeys, the series will explore how survival, chance, innovation and partnerships between species have helped create the extraordinary variety of life we see around us.
The ambitious production has been supported by the work of more than 600 scientists from around the world, who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the storytelling, scripts and visual effects. The series also received guidance from Series Academic Consultant Professor Peter Holland FRS, alongside a long-standing collaboration with The Open University.
At the centre of Evolution are its immersive visual effects sequences, created to take viewers billions of years into the past and introduce the creatures and moments that helped shape the evolution of life on Earth. The production team worked with award-winning VFX producer Moonraker to bring these ancient worlds and their inhabitants to life.
The series features 79 minutes of photoreal visual effects, made up of 242 individual shots. More than 20 different creatures have been recreated through CGI, with a total of 118,629 individual CGI frames used throughout the production.
Evolution is a BBC Studios Science Unit production made in partnership with The Open University.
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