Gallery: Making Arthur Christmas' Sci-Fi Sleigh

  • NASA PSA
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  • Mission Control Concept Art
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    *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.*
  • Architecture
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    *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.*
  • Geometry Design Interior
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    *Till Nowak spent months in 2010 finalizing* Arthur Christmas' *Mission Control design, based on early mock-ups.*
  • Computer Design
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    *Mission Control had to go through various stages of modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and composition.*
  • Original Sketches of S1
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    *These original sketches by production designer Evgeni Tomov show what will become Santa's mile-wide sleighship, the S-1.*
  • Concept Render
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    *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.*
  • Final CG Render
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    *After the development work was finished, the artists at Sony Pictures Imageworks made the final CG render of the S-1.*
  • Peter Baynham at ComicCon
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    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.*
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