Samurai story set, for the "Little Boy" film.
In order to achieve the timely completion on the painting aspect of this set, I divided up my team to work simultaneously on different planes of the background.
We covered up with painter's paper the silhouette of mountains on the backdrop while I prepared barrels of paint with the different shades of blue and yellow to provide the perfect rendering for the sky.
From a condor, I took turns with another artist on painting the almost 11,000 sq. foot sky backdrop with an airless paint sprayer. We painted the render of the sky over the entire canvas surface, covering the paper mask as well.
Sky render, over canvas and paper mountain mask.
We painted in clouds.
Begining stages of clouds. Bamboo flats on the floor.
Then removed the paper, filled in the mountains and continued adding detail.
Mountain Silhouettes
I asked another artist in my team to paint a number of smaller mountains that were to be placed on different planes between the backdrop and the bamboo silhouettes.
Added detail to clouds and layers of mountains.
Two others painted the bamboo silhouettes.
Bamboo silhouettes.
Construction then installed the scaled down Japanese houses.
Marco Zuppelli, sculptor, created the rocks for the pond in the Samurai scene, which my team later texturized and painted.
Pond/rocks
The production designer decided to have lighter foliage on the bamboo flats, to see more of the background, so they got trimmed down.
The greens dept. brought in real bamboo to plant in front of the flats.
Bamboo Silhouettes, with a front layer of real bamboo.
Finishing stages...
...and ready for shooting...
Shooting...