THE TEAM FROM AUTOMATIK VFX AND WORLDBUILDING DESIGN STUDIO PAINTING PRACTICE REVEAL THE VISUAL SECRETS OF “THE GIGGLE” AND “THE CHURCH ON RUBY ROAD”
UNIT TOWER
Dan May, Painting Practice co-founder and VFX Supervisor:
We looked at some classic strong tower shapes like the Shard and did many, many different versions of the silhouette. We were conscious of trying to emulate the beauty and simplicity of Marvel’s Stark Tower, but at the same time having ownership in our own version.
Seb Barker, VFX Supervisor and founder of Automatik VFX: The script really defined the design in many ways, just in terms of what the tower had to perform and how the characters interacted with it.
Dan: One of the biggest things for me was where it was going to go in the London skyline and how we were going to integrate it. I very quickly plonked it where I thought it would look best, in that cluster of buildings opposite the Shard.
It’s a lovely little cluster that feels like a mini London Manhattan. It felt the right place to put it, but more importantly it had lots of good access points in terms of where we could fly towards it, whether
