I’m going to point out some details you may have missed in shots from #TheMitchellsVsTheMachines trailer to show how @michaelrianda & team created a film with such groundbreaking visuals. A thread!
Mike wanted the film to have a hand-painted watercolor style so we brought @mlasker - a genius from the Spider-Verse team - to use some of the techniques developed on S-V to give this movie its own look. Some examples:
Look closely at the texture on the fur collar of Rick Mitchell (the dad)‘s jacket. Instead of super realistic detailed fur simulation, it’s a bunch of hand-painted squiggles. Which is actually much harder to pull off.
These trees are 3D CG but look hand painted:
The characters themselves have subtle hand-painted outlines as well as the props and environments -even hair is made with watercolor washed shapes accented with linework.
Katie Mitchell is a filmmaker who uses technology to make mixed media short films so her world is filled with her aesthetic...
Production Designer @lindseydraws had her team including @lilynishita & @AliceLemma draw 2D “KatieVision” around her to represent her worldview. Everything from little squiggles to more complicated cartoonery:
The world of Olivia Coleman’s PAL has a totally different palette and is much cleaner and looks like a Journey album cover:
But even in the clean world of PAL everything still has watercolor textures and hand-painted outlines. Look closely at this robot:
And also there’s a funny dog and a giant Furby.
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