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Lunar Industries Hope You Enjoy Your Driving Experience
One of the things that really got me excited about the design aspect of Moon was that I was going to get to design some Moon Buggies. I love moon buggies. I've always been obsessed with vehicles in...
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What's For Dinner Gerty?
One of the things we really had fun with in Moon was designing Sams' daily living routine on the Sarang facility. Originally we were going to have him eating all his meals in pill form like a proper...
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Mexican Wrestler on Sarang
If there was one single scene in Moon that made us the most anxious in the run-up to shooting it, it was the fight scene. We had a few tricks we were hoping would help us out, especially spending some...
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Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With
The final phases of pre-production were an incredibly busy time for us on Moon. The Sarang set took nine weeks to build and the models and miniatures were being built over the last five weeks of this...
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Cutting holes in our shiny, new set
When I was originally designing the set and getting the look established, I was keen to have some visible tech in there to bring the base to life. When you're designing a set, it really helps bring it...
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Designing Sarang: Robotic Space-House Of The Future
One of the most satistfying bits of work I did on Moon was designing the set. I had free reign to come up with a Moonbase concept that we were actually going to build in it's entirity, so it was an...
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I can see your house from here
The design of the exterior of the Sarang facility was done very much on-the-fly as I had so much to contend with I had to fit the design period in over a couple of afternoons between meetings. I'd sit...
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Saving time with Adobe Photoshop
A very important part of the final look of any film is the colour grading process. This tends to happen at the end of post production where the edit is locked, all VFX shots are complete and the films...
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Build Your Own Robot The Lunar Industries Way
I was having a bit of a dig around on a couple of my old hard drives recently and I came across this set of images and thought they might be of interest. They're the actual images that I gave to Bill...
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Get In The Car
I thought I'd show you something on a bit of a different tack today, so here's my favourite photograph that was taken during the making of Moon. It was shot by mr. Phellim O'Neill, who also did our...
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Strapadicktomie Procedure
Have a watch of this and then I'll tell you what it is. Moon_Extras_Final_3.mov Watch on Posterous This is our lovely Production Assistant miss Ella Harris helping us out with a special effects test...
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Inside the Moon Model Shop
During the making of Moon there was a place that I'm sure many people would have loved to visit and so I thought I'd try and give you more of an idea of what it was like there. The place is Bill...
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Moon: The Rubbish Looking CG Version
I thought I'd take the opportunity to show you a bit more about how we worked out what we were going to do with the vehicle VFX and lunar exterior shots in Moon. Particularly regarding the...
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Post-Shoot iMovie VFX Frollicks
I thought I'd share something special with you today and it's definately something you're not going to be seeing enywhere else, the "first" VFX shot from Moon. We'd wrapped our shooting at Shepperton...
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I am a space clone and I sleep in a drawer...
One area of the set design that Duncan and myself were kind of putting off for the most part was the clone room corridor. There was so much to think about with the rest of the productions' incessent...
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Getting the set finished
Home. K-Stage, Shepperton Studios. Where the tea urns never run dry and you're always no more than two minutes away from industrial strength solvents or a plate of chips. The Sarang set construction...
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The Unknown Stuntman
One thing that keeps coming up again and again in this blog is me whining about how little money we had. I know this is going to sound cliched but it does spur you on to be a bit more creative then...
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Space-Biker Sams' Tiny Package
One thing that tends to come up a bit when people talk about Moon is the ending. As we were doing everything on minimal resources we didn't have much extra footage to work with in the edit but there...
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The Mystery Of The Unclear Space-Tats
Here's a Sam Bell clone fresh out the drawer in the Sarang station, looking Fonzie cool. Sam had to go through quite a lot of time in makeup in Moon and we did all sorts of things like drawing on his...
View ArticleMaking of Moon blog has a new home
Hi there, I just wanted to let you know that I've moved this blog over to my new website where it's a bit better organised. I've been digging through my drives and prepped some stuff for new posts...
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