Sets and Props 2

We move forward... with a pace unseen in the realm of lazy heavenly bodies!



To start where we finished last: Here is the second sign, which is in polish. We want to thank Piotr Zapart for the polish expertise. WiredFly has worked together with Piotr on the creation of an Agnostic Chicken fuzz pedal for guitar... (if any of the readers of this blog are interested in great guitar pedals check out Piotr's website:
http://www.hexeguitar.com/
On this site there's also some pictures of the Agnostic Fuzz pedal).



O sweet lord; Here he is – our man Anders Bøge Henriksen (who also drew the storyboard and a lot of the concept drawings). On this picture he is drawing the polish sign.



Johan & Herr Strandgaard working on the balcony door with great precision and concentration. May the lunar rays of infinite wisdom shine upon them as the conquer the winds of haste.



Jules is doing great work creating the lamps. On this picture we see his work station with different kinds of lampshades and lamps.

Video 4

Here is a little video update from the WiredFly studio.

Sets and Props

Listening to fancy electronic upbeat music, the WiredFly crew is working steady and neat to finish the set and the props. Take my hand as I guide you through these four pictures.



During desperate and confusing times (and in lack of time) we almost decided to skip the building of the lamps. But then – inspired by the cosmic winds – we took a giant leap on the path to a great looking film and decided to make the lamps; fast and relentless. On this picture above Jules has just finished the first table lamp. AND ISN'T IT WONDERFUL!!! Let there be light indeed! Unfortunately Ellen pointed out that the kind of lampshade Jules made wasn't invented until the fifties... …by a Dane! O, the humanity! But he is working on new lampshades and lamps. Godspeed!



Here's the finished woodshed for the backyard. There is a newspaper on the top of the wood, that is an actual polish '39 newspaper that we printed down in scale and painted. It is hard to see, but in the left corner of the shed there is a little shelf, where upon there's two bottles. These two bottles was made for our project The Agnostic Chicken by Mette Bülow Duus; professional glassblowers from Aarhus, Denmark. The wood is made out of balsa wood and Styrofoam, and dry-brushed afterwards.



Nina is painting the cobblestones with a dark wash, as Johan is trying to figure out where the lamppost should stand. Speaking of which – it took as many interstellar thoughts to figure out how to do the lamppost – but then Johan & Herr Strandgaard come up with a new design that is both easy to make and looking mighty good.



And here's the finished “Achtung” sign for the German side of the wall. It is painted with a light wash and then the text is written with a Uni-pin fine line 0.8 felt pen. Oh yeah!

Set pt. 7

A quiet wind blows outside our studio. A bike is standing forsaken in the rain. An emptiness is roaming these shores - the WF.HQ is silent as the flight of butterflies.

Johan is making rubble to give the illusion that a house has been demolished.

Here we see the German side of the wall, without rubble.

In joy Johan is putting the barbed wire on the wall.

And here is the result. Perhaps we'll paint it, but perhaps it's awesome... ...time will tell. Time will tell.

Sets pt. 6

The spaceship Event Horizon (from the 1997 film of the same name) - disappeared beyond Neptune in 2040. The ship reappear in a decaying orbit around Neptune in 2047. The ships unique feature was that it was able to "bend" time and space and leap to any possible destination...
When the ship reappear it is discovered by Dr. William Weir (played by Sam Niell) that Event Horizon has payed a visit to HELL. Slowly the Event Horizon starts to get to the various people involved in the film, and in a diabolical and necro rage Dr. Weir watches as they fall like flies.
Why am I writing this?
What is the point of this?
Well, I guess it's just an observation that every now and then things doesn't go according to plan - and even though people and things can venture to the realms of hell one must pull through and wander towards the brave new world with good intentions and a open mind.
Thus things are progressing with the new set, and we are happy to show these pictures of the transmutation of the backyard set.


Here Johan & Steffen are glueing on THOUSANDS of foam bricks onto what will become the wall seperating the jewish ghetto from the German side.


On this fancy picture Johan is making a hole in on of the buildings so that it might look like it has been bombed.



Our plan was to build the whole backyard set in three weeks. This is the result of the first week.

The result of the second week.

And finally the result of the third week. As you can see we didn't finish it in three weeks... so we failed....... But we will preveil in the end!

Johan desperatly trying to finish the set... ...in time!

Sets pt. 5

Bees, like ants are fascinating things... unlike the domestic cat - whose lazy behavior is preposterous and a travesty upon the working mentality. Tore, Johan & Steffen has been / and still are working like the famished aggressors of the deep oceans. And I indeed are working on the sheds - and helping out with the molds. Take my hand, and follow me on this little four-picture journey through the set building.

BEHOLD!!! The new wee model of the backyard, made by Steffen. This li'l beauty will help us a lot in the making of the actual backyard. The sky behind is a print of Else's sky in the right scale according to the wee backyard.

Here, Johan is working on the backyard set. The clever observer will notice the weird duck-tape formation on his hand. Alas Johan, in a split second of unawareness cut himself with the hand saw.



Tore drilling in screws on the backyard set. (Let's all take a moment and wish Tore good luck on his new school)... May your days be glorious - and may your beers be cold.



Steffen calculating infinity... ...perhaps? In the backround Else is painting the gigantic sky-picture. (When talking about this picture, one must keep this in mind; It COULD actually kill a grown man if it chose to fall on him). But let's hope it doesn't. Stay tuned for more WF-activity... And may the Queen of Denmark bless us with her omnipresence.

Set pt. 4

Hola from the tropical WF.HQ.
The heat is getting to us; but in the words of a dying Cowboy in Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket": I can hack it! And yes; we will preveil this vicious summer heat... we will stand triumphant when winter slides softly over our land and we will welcome it with open arms. Meanwhile one can gaze upon these pictures of the set coming to life.



Johan, Ellen and I will pay a visit to the isle of Fyn on the 23rd of August, where we, along with other animation entities, will share the esoteric knowledge of our process with the public and with a number of young filmmakers like ourselves who would like to take a peak into the animation world. The event is arranged by our consultant Jakob Høgel from NDS - and he asked us for a picture they could use. So we decided to test the unfinished apartment with the unfinsihed puppet of the mother and some of the finished furniture.



Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! It is a new design for the backyard that Else drew some lazy afternoon whilst waiting for something to do. Thoughts come and go - mental sinewaves collapse and give ways for NEW mindscapes. Thus we grew somewhat worried that the old design wouldn't fit the new ideas we got for the backyard sequence. It's of course always weird to start from scratch - especially on something as huge as these buildings - but it is for the best. Both Johan & I are extremely keen on the new design, and we are looking forward to work on it. The sky behind is the sky picture Else will use as a reference to paint the background sky painting. We just photoshopped it in to see how it would look.



And here she is; Else, painting the gigantic SKY PAINTING! It WILL be awesome!

I will end this post with a little Star Trek story from the first season of The Original Series. It is the episode called "The Naked Time" where, due to lack of awareness, this guy gets infected with some strange sort of emotional epidemic that spreads through physical contact. Soon everyone aboard the ship gets infected and acts demented and irrational. Even Mr. Spock (the half vulcan / half human science officer) who has forsaken human emotions to live a life dictated by pure logic, gets infected. To make matters even worse the Enterprise is spinning out of control and will soon burst into flames as it breaches some planets atmosphere. But just as all hope seems lost Dr. McCoy finds out that the cure for this emotional madness is simply... ...water!
My point with this little tale is to remind people to drink water, if they want to avoid going mad.

Sets pt. 3

Behold: Sets are coming to life; shaping formless in the vortex of the WF.HQ.

Else is treading dangerous grounds; armed to the teeth with Hanna's gasmask and a soldering iron she's entering the realm of the styrofoam. Her quest is to make the cobblestones for the backyard - and survive the potential vicious headaches and lazy sensations of the evil gasses.

Dwelling in the outermost regions of chaos, Tore is working on the apartment. Tore has been neglected on this blog - but alas; like solar rays bursting with positive energy he has been working like there was no tomorrow.

Herr Strandgaard is fighting the heat while making the windows for the apartment. Talking about ritual burnings and hot chicks he crosses the threshold of liquid space... ...in his mind!

we will end this post with a poem by Derrick Wang.

"They say there is a spaceship flying out amongst the stars
housing beasts of all describtions with no prison bars
joyous is the spaceship - in rapture and in peace

a radiant glowing light that'll never sieze".

WF.HQ 4

Greetings from the swampy realms of the Wiredfly Headquarters! Things are still progressing with the pace of a wee bit tired but yet agile moose!



(Hanna is working on hands of different shapes. There is also a beak and the head of the mother).





(Sarah making the bricks for the walls. Now presented in two different angled photos).



(Herr Strandgaard working on props).

(Tore has started on building the roof for one of the buildings).

I will update the blog later today with test photos, where Johan has composited eyes of potential actors on the maquette heads Hanna has made.

Till then....

tchüss!

Sarah's Wall Tests.

The li'l piece of wall to the left is made out polyurethan foam, which Sarah carved bricks in and painted. The wee bit larger piece of wall to the right is made out of polystyrene. Once again she carved bricks in it and painted it.

We have talked about using both materials for background buildings... ...for maxium efficiency! (depending on just HOW decayed we want the buildings to be).

We also talked about making the actual wall (surrounding the ghetto) out of small plaster bricks and then creating the wall like you would a REAL one. This is to get the right look of the wall; which would be hard to get by carving the bricks in some sort of material (like the background buildings).

Sarah's paper courtyard.

Here is two pictures of Sarah's paper courtyard... ...IN 3D!!!