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We have entered the era of large multidimensional datasets represented by increasingly complex data structures. Current tools for scientific visualization are not optimized to efficiently and intuitively create cinematic production quality, time-evolving representations of numerical data for broad impact science communication via film, media, or journalism. To present such data in a cinematic environment, it is advantageous to develop methods that integrate these complex data structures into industry standard visual effects software packages, which provide a myriad of control features otherwise unavailable in traditional scientific visualization software.