we didn’t want to just take a page from
a history book we wanted to show this in
a new way
yes oh go ahead and remove and turn it
90 degrees and so we used animation to
help tell the story of how the column
was built I thought that they can build
the models on talking with hands we
thought that I can animate it does take
a tremendous amount of time but the
reason people still do it is that it
still creates a certain sense of motion
that you can’t get with say computer
animation or hand-drawn animation I know
a little bit about 3d but to have
something real in your hands is
something that is different to move just
a frame at a time has a unique look to
it that is very special we start with
motorist a simple idea more elements are
coming and so in this no yet one part is
like there are a lot of pieces no
Fernando is the art director and the set
designer the kind of all-around genius
behind building all these miniature
pieces it’s character I make like a
skate
and after that I’m school with a school
P I bake in the oven and after that I
paint with acrylic and usually the color
is for me is the part that is little bit
a stressful so sometimes you start with
one kind of color and didn’t work so
that one for example here I think that
there are probably four or five layers
of painting one of our characters is
holding a cell phone and if you look
carefully added everything down to the
screen and the metal band around the
outside is all there if you look at the
pulley system that the ropes connect to
those are all miniature little pulleys
and they all work and they all work in
the proper way
you need to try to get is that something
real something that the readers when
they what they feel on this is on what
is this
I tell models they may be seen how big
can be this modeled the reason we’re
using two different scales for this film
is that on the one hand we need to show
the characters actually building the
drums and carving them and pulling on
ropes and putting the column together
and then on the other hand we want to
see the whole thing happening in one
shot and if we tried to use the same
scale the tower would be taller than the
ceiling of the room that were in so has
his day a little behind the scenes so
over together but he is the director of
the of the video so a lot of ideas
skiing when we talk I’m missing time
with the both the ropes around with this
one but he is the guy behind the camera
so he always find the best point of view
you don’t kind of like this and then
that way we can see his head he animate
and I held a little bit to animate but
he stay the guy that animate and he put
together on the story no even though
this is an animated film we’re trying to
be very historically accurate
so we’ve spoken to blame Lancaster who
had the theory about how this column was
built and she told me home I didn’t
build a model at that time and the model
is always very helpful noise well and
this one you can really see they start
that work on the stuff that didn’t work
because that was what was hard for me in
the computer model is you have to get
the rope so that they don’t bump into
all the different supports in the tower
and there’s a lot of support so it’s
like you know winding or a rope through
a rain forest and trying to get it not
to touch any of the trees one of the
cool things about building a working
model once you put them together they
have to work so we can film them they
actually have to function you see some
of the challenges that the real builders
must have had like if you pull a rope in
one direction is it actually going to
you know turn the pulley the right way
how much lifting power do you need to
lift up a 30-ton block of marble and
those are all problems that had to be
figured out back then and there were
also problems that we had to figure out
now
one of the things that I took away from
making this film is a really strong
appreciation for how much work went into
building the real column all the
artisans involved all the craftspeople
building and filming this thing in
miniature really made me appreciate what
people must have gone through making the
real thing and I hope viewers of the
film can take that away too
a history book we wanted to show this in
a new way
yes oh go ahead and remove and turn it
90 degrees and so we used animation to
help tell the story of how the column
was built I thought that they can build
the models on talking with hands we
thought that I can animate it does take
a tremendous amount of time but the
reason people still do it is that it
still creates a certain sense of motion
that you can’t get with say computer
animation or hand-drawn animation I know
a little bit about 3d but to have
something real in your hands is
something that is different to move just
a frame at a time has a unique look to
it that is very special we start with
motorist a simple idea more elements are
coming and so in this no yet one part is
like there are a lot of pieces no
Fernando is the art director and the set
designer the kind of all-around genius
behind building all these miniature
pieces it’s character I make like a
skate
and after that I’m school with a school
P I bake in the oven and after that I
paint with acrylic and usually the color
is for me is the part that is little bit
a stressful so sometimes you start with
one kind of color and didn’t work so
that one for example here I think that
there are probably four or five layers
of painting one of our characters is
holding a cell phone and if you look
carefully added everything down to the
screen and the metal band around the
outside is all there if you look at the
pulley system that the ropes connect to
those are all miniature little pulleys
and they all work and they all work in
the proper way
you need to try to get is that something
real something that the readers when
they what they feel on this is on what
is this
I tell models they may be seen how big
can be this modeled the reason we’re
using two different scales for this film
is that on the one hand we need to show
the characters actually building the
drums and carving them and pulling on
ropes and putting the column together
and then on the other hand we want to
see the whole thing happening in one
shot and if we tried to use the same
scale the tower would be taller than the
ceiling of the room that were in so has
his day a little behind the scenes so
over together but he is the director of
the of the video so a lot of ideas
skiing when we talk I’m missing time
with the both the ropes around with this
one but he is the guy behind the camera
so he always find the best point of view
you don’t kind of like this and then
that way we can see his head he animate
and I held a little bit to animate but
he stay the guy that animate and he put
together on the story no even though
this is an animated film we’re trying to
be very historically accurate
so we’ve spoken to blame Lancaster who
had the theory about how this column was
built and she told me home I didn’t
build a model at that time and the model
is always very helpful noise well and
this one you can really see they start
that work on the stuff that didn’t work
because that was what was hard for me in
the computer model is you have to get
the rope so that they don’t bump into
all the different supports in the tower
and there’s a lot of support so it’s
like you know winding or a rope through
a rain forest and trying to get it not
to touch any of the trees one of the
cool things about building a working
model once you put them together they
have to work so we can film them they
actually have to function you see some
of the challenges that the real builders
must have had like if you pull a rope in
one direction is it actually going to
you know turn the pulley the right way
how much lifting power do you need to
lift up a 30-ton block of marble and
those are all problems that had to be
figured out back then and there were
also problems that we had to figure out
now
one of the things that I took away from
making this film is a really strong
appreciation for how much work went into
building the real column all the
artisans involved all the craftspeople
building and filming this thing in
miniature really made me appreciate what
people must have gone through making the
real thing and I hope viewers of the
film can take that away too
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