Behind the Scenes Photography
Behind the Scenes Photography
Teresa Drilling on set.
Cloud photography. The clouds in this project were made of real materials.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Live feed of clouds superimposed over a still from the film. Part of the process of developing the right shape and appearance for the clouds.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Pieces of the metal skeleton being designed with a to-scale drawing of Bernard being used as a guide.
Rounding up the correct-size pinheads to make bird eyes.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
An old-fashioned letter press was used to test fonts on different papers with different degrees of indentation.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Shooting footage of Elba in her cockpit. Lots of Elba animations were shot to be superimposed into existing background footage of her ship.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Objects tumble from Bernard's cabin, supported by wires, rigging, tape, whatever aids in propping the item in the correct orientation in front of the camera.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
A simple animation setup.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Tornado skeleton.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
Director Mark Smith and Director of Photography Reijean Heringlake shoot tornado footage.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
The tornado was mounted to a rotating platform that was controlled by computer.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Testing the appearance of paper textures and pressed-in lettering under different kinds of computer-controlled lights.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
This is the foundation for the largest mechanically-controlled set created for Two Balloons. It will become the ocean.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
Underneath the ocean "water" was an array of pistons giving the water movement.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
Beth Gavigan and Elicia Beebee adding texture to the artificial water.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
Assembling many textured pieces together to make an entire ocean.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
The artificial ocean from above, adding the finishing touches.
Photograph by Kathleen Chamberlin
Wave table with sunset.
Photograph by Vanessa Pridgen
Storyboards of the sequence of a line being tied between the two boats.
Diagrams of the design and colors for Bernard's balloon.