We had an inspirational design, a sketch and then glued and taped together another analogue blocking.
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- Inspirational
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- rough sketch
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- Blocking
Category Archives: Inspirational Artwork
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 parts that are made up. Sinem, Kara´s alter ego, lived here in her youth and this is where Kara´s journey in Istanbul starts.
I will present the pictures in a loose chronological order – starting with one from one of our research trips to Istanbul, when I met Ayse Teyze, who was still alive and running her tiny kiosk on Yesilcam.
Sinem and her mother in Yesilcam
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 out floor plans – basically the measurements of the set itself and the different heights of ground.
Pablo in Ruit built a wooden construction which was covered in styrofoam by Jörg. While Pablo started working on construction of the houses which include the practicals, Jörg started to saw back, middle – and later foreground houses from styrofoam – and would continue to do so for several days, as there were many!
In the meantime the detailed “light-street-foreground” houses got into shape mainly on Nina´s and Susanna´s desks. More streets, groundplans, foreground houses, facade smoothing and filling, adjustment of all houses, fixing them to the set and finally the paint work – everybody working hard.
You guys in Ruit did an amazing job!
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- The inspirational
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- Wooden construction
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- The “light street” in the middle of nowhere
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- underneath the facade
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- the city growing…
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- Pablo working on the practicals
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- Where are we??
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- city growing…
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- and growing…
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- still growing
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- finally: dawn by Susanna
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- And more colours.
Mr Fleas
We have another character. Mr Fleas. That’s him in an inspirational drawing, singing a duet with the Emerald Fish.
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- Inspirational artwork by Anne Hofmann
