Models to Scale

Hello everyone!

Well it's pretty much been business as usual around here at Quandary. After returning from a brief adventure to Legoland I'm back to work at our headquarters, and have got some cool stuff to show off that we completed before I left.

The scale model of the Argos is complete! Not quite sure what scale it actually is any more (it kinda changed as we made it). Spenser and I have made the decision to create all the ships and space objects in the film using models, as opposed to digital 3D.
We like the idea of doing things outside the computer. Remember how cool the spaceships looked in the original star wars? Those we're models made from plastic and hot glue, and they still look awesome! For the most part (there are exceptions) we've never been fully satisfied with the 3D 'look', and at our current level (with no money) it would be near to impossible to get something to match our vision. With physical models however, where Spenser and I can physically control the lighting, camera, texture and background, we can create something that fits with the rest of the film (fingers crossed)

Our animation director Ijah Garfield has been hard at work engineering the little space critters that will inhabit the ship. The stop motion filming will take place over the course of the next few months (pending funding) where Ijah and his team of animators will create the extra footage we need involving our beloved little space crabs. His awesome concept art and animation test footage coming soon!

And lastly I figured I'd tack these on because they're great. Spenser found these on an old roll of film, character pics from our music video Charlie!