The scene was Valhalla, known from the Nordic mythology.
How does the landscape just outside Valhalla look? The art director ment that the dead vikings had to cross
a field of fallen warriors, but for some reason the ice company thought that it was a little too much for an ice dream
commercial (sissys :)) So everyone agreed that it was more like a summer meadow (yaawn). Anyway, this scene is
so short and hazy that no one really cares....
And... how does the entrance to Valhalla then look? Big, for one, a lot of wood and a huge stairway. I started out from the
story board frame and made a quick colour sketch. When approved, we, Tonni Zinck from RADAR Film and I, searched
the Nordic litterature for visual references and were closing in on a mixture of Viking styles to correspond with the interior
ideas. Again, as mentioned in my tutorials I painted the basic shapes according to the light and then added photographic
textures to add chaos to the painting. Later RADAR Film added camera projection with a slow tilt and 3D fog crawling down the stairs.
This was a hard one. The ice came out of these golden horns inside Valhalla. Since golden things reflect evething
around them, I had to make up things in the near surrounding to reflect in the horns. They were to be like gold, but in a
bronze way, only with a colder tone of colour - and of course in the light of 30 torches.... :)
A hard one, but it came out nicely, I think.
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