We had an inspirational design, a sketch and then glued and taped together another analogue blocking.

Yesilcam – building Kara´s street
Now that everything is “done” (which of course still is not…), we finally get around to putting together more pictures from the set-building process. Our most complex set – both in building and shooting – is the set of Yesilcam Street, Kara´s street. This street is based on a real location – except for the

Landscape style frames
I am always in awe of what Anne manages with a few brushstrokes (I’ll probably get a call from her about this little word “few” in here…) Anyway, here are some “rough” style frames she prepared as guidance for compositing and matte painting from the landscape set we recently shot.

Mini-Istanbul – a metropolis in one room
The set building process: First, there was an inspirational. Then (and those photos I spare you) I started to do a small plastillin blocking and drew rough groundplans of the buildings visible in the inspirational. Then Eugen Kelle started blocking in 3-D until we had a set big enough for the camera move and sent

Mr Fleas
We have another character. Mr Fleas. That’s him in an inspirational drawing, singing a duet with the Emerald Fish.