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Concept Development work of city scene
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Early production still from city scene
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Building our city and assembling the Minotank
This was most complicated scene in the project and was the one I had the most fun assembling. It was like building cities with legos as a kid.
The purpose for building lego cities is self-evident; they are built to be destroyed.
The real tragedy for me is that all this work is only up there for a few seconds.
The Minotank was also great fun to assemble. I love steam-powered, clockwork machines.Or at least, I love the idea of steam-powered, clockwork machines.
Danny, who constituted the entire animation team on this project, worked some real magic in making the Minotank come to life. I gave him a baffling assortment of gears and plates and pistons and smoke and I think it nearly killed him, but he pulled it altogether. It was really exciting to finally see this thing stomping around, knocking over buildings and billowing smoke.
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Early storyboards
There is a story contest for this on the Portland Studios Blog.
I am really curious to see what people submit for this.