Screenshots from the film

Since we don't have time to publish any longer posts this week, 

here are three screenshots from the film!

We built this City

Here is a miniature city we built in cardboard.

Some pics and text explaining the process:

For building the houses we just used different cardboard that we could find and gluegun. 

The houses has only three walls - we won't see the fourth 

and it is also easier to light them from inside then.

The houses where built in differnt sizes to create 

an illusion of perspective/fake perspective.

Some of the houses where covered in putty and lightly sandpapered.

Then painted in different grayish desaturated colours.

 

( Sometimes we also clean up)

Here is the houses putted up for shooting. 

The background is the same as in the train exterior shots, 

but without the orange light behind (since its still night here).

The mountains is made by styrofoam.

This is how the set looks from behind.
We covered some of the windows and then had lamps behind every row of houses.
The aluminium foil is to cover cracks where the light slipped through.

 

For this shot we made a miniature animatable version of the character. Challenging and fun to animate!

And some photos with the finished lighting.

Nature and Train Set!

So this is our expensive train-in-the-nature shot. Many days of work for only 3 seconds! To not waste that much work for only 3 seconds, we figured to use the same set from another angle in another scene. Here is some pictures and text about making the set and the train:

We started by shaping the landscape in foam, and covered it with towels and other textiles:

Then we painted it with acrylic colours:
(photos by Julija)

The small trees is plastic trees coated in wooden glue and spices (oregano, chili and seafood mix, yum yum)
We were originally planning to use greenscreen background, but since the set is green we made another solution: we painted a fabric as a sky and then later lighted it from behind with a yellow/orange ligt (sunrise), since its "real" background it also affected the set and the resloult looks really atmospheric!

 The train was made in wood, the roof of architecture paper, the pipes sculpted from super sculpey and then we coated the train in putty :

We also lighted it with lamos inside and led lights for the front:

 The scene is now animated but will stay unpulished until we release the teaser!

More fanart!

Fanart by Andreas, thank you little lad! Hugs from directors

Fanart!

Thank you Martin little lad! Hugs from directors.