As gruff commander Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) tells the International Military recruits, including hero Ender (Asa Butterfield) – through the round gate off the austere staging area is a zero G environment.

The modeling and concepting done by Nicholson’s team was all early-stage production. Most of the animating was done according to his work in the 6-9 month after his part in Gravity was already over, which meant anything they sent to the animators had to be rock solid.