Thursday, September 24, 2009

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2: Designing the Roofless Restaurant, Spaghetti Twister, and Eiffel Tower

THE ROOFLESS

The Roofless was originally named Ralph's Roofless Restaurant (see if you can say that fast). The idea actually originated from the book. Since food falls from the sky, the restaurant sells utensils. I designed the interior with The Standard in LA in mind showcasing different utensils all around the place. The brightly lit tables somehow are paying homage to the legendary layout tables we used back in the days of 2D animation.






Below is my earliest design for the interior which was a quick thumbnail in PS having a bright colorful palette.



THE SPAGHETTI TWISTER

Here's an early concept design of the spaghetti tornado I did wrecking down the sardine cannery. Below are screen grabs of a 3D test with an animated spaghetti twister which I "retouched" to add a new NY skyline layout.

Here are the actual artworks I did based from that test above.


The design of the New York skyline was based from the artist Miroslav Sasek's style (remember the "This Is" childrens' book series) in his which we were alluding to early on in visual development. Same goes with Liberty. I noticed that his artworks has a slight general lean to the right meaning he's left handed. So I did the same. Kinda cool and added personality.



THE EIFFEL TOWER

These are very early concept designs that show the tower covered with pizza as well as the clouds. I designed these clouds with those tube-like formations where food supposedly would fall out from, and tendrils for fear factor. I made these tree studies thinking they might be useful for the same environment using Sasek's sensibilities but in a 3D volumetric form.





Still more to come next week...


All images ©Sony Pictures Animation.

22 comments:

Stephan Royer said...

Congrats on a very fun film, my kids really enjoyed it and of course dad did too! I love the roofless restaurant.

Matthew Scheuerman said...

Armand, Thanks so much for posting these. It's a great behind-the-scenes look into the visdev process. I recently saw the "art of" book for Meatballs. THICK. You and your dept. did an amazing job. Can't wait to take my kids to see it.

Hans said...

Whoa Armand, your blogging is out of control!:)

Keep it coming, it's a pleasure to read about and of course to see your awesome artwork. I haven't had a chance to see it yet, but I'm very much looking forward to it this weekend.

Gotta go...I'm HUNGRY!

-Hans

Tim Moen said...

wow dude. that stuff is amazing. i don't even understand how you can do some of that stuff. the trees are my favorite. interesting shapes, nice rendering.

Anonymous said...

Amazing, beautiful artwork Armando.
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Kendra Melton said...

woah, brain's overloaded, this is going to take a while to settle. Amazing. Thanks so much for sharing, I love seeing how much planning goes into a production. :]

Unknown said...

Cool stuff - it must've been fun to throw food over all of these famous places.

A. Riabovitchev said...

Beautiful work Armand!Can you slow daun please!I forgot fasten seat belt.;O)

Jason Pruett said...

nice. very nice.

Mariusz Kornatka said...

Great work!
Looking forward for the next update!

All the best,
Mariusz

Alfred Llupia said...

Brilliant job Armand,as always,i'm goin to see it soon.Greetings from Bristol!

Unknown said...

Great so see all the conceptual arts!! LOve the movie!! And the design ROCK!

Ivan Aguirre said...

these are just gorgeous. great work. cant wait to pick up the ART of book.

Tatevik Avakyan said...

Wonderful designs -thanks for sharing!

Erik D. Martin said...

Man I saw this movie 3 times so far- I love it! congrats on the movie, and amazing work!

Dave Dick said...

That tornado looks so good!

Armand Serrano said...

Thanks again for the comments and support. Glad you guys enjoyed the movie.

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