Gallery: Making Arthur Christmas' Sci-Fi Sleigh
01nasa-psa
02mission-control-concept-art
*Various artists created sketches of Mission Control. This CG piece from 2008 was done by digital set designer Till Nowak so that it could be seen from different camera angles.*
03architecture
*Production designer Evgeni Tomov came up with new ideas for the central architecture of Mission Control on the S-1. The structure is modeled after a Christmas tree.*
04geometry-design-interior
*Till Nowak spent months in 2010 finalizing* Arthur Christmas' *Mission Control design, based on early mock-ups.*
05computer-design
*Mission Control had to go through various stages of modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and composition.*
06original-sketches-of-s-1
*These original sketches by production designer Evgeni Tomov show what will become Santa's mile-wide sleighship, the S-1.*
07concept-render
*Till Nowak defined the sleighship's design down to small details, testing the S-1's structure and scale like in the concept art shown here.*
08final-cg-render
*After the development work was finished, the artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks made the final CG render of the S-1.*
09peter-baynham-at-comic-con
Arthur Christmas *writer Peter Baynham and Aardman Animations co-founder Peter Lord talk about the film during an interview at this year's Comic-Con International.*
