2022
Art direction:  production design, background concepts, colour script, character colour and integration. Supervision of background painting team. Design of logo and poster. © Microfilm & Vivifilm.

early concept: the hanger on Svalbard

colourscript (a basic design for colour and lighting across each sequence)
background concepts
Nobile's kitchen in the 1970s
Nobile's kitchen in the 1970s
Amundsen's hallway
Amundsen's hallway
Nobile's living room in the 1970s
Nobile's living room in the 1970s
Nobile's living room in the 1920s at night
Nobile's living room in the 1920s at night
The kitchen in the airship
The kitchen in the airship
The piazza in the 1970s
The piazza in the 1970s
background colour - based on layout

presentation at Ciampino

The piazza at night

design for penguins (different from in the film)
design for penguins (different from in the film)
design for dream sled
design for dream sled
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for sled with penguins from an earlier version of the script
design for sled with penguins from an earlier version of the script
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape
design for dream landscape incorporating Italian Futurism
design for dream landscape incorporating Italian Futurism

Dream landscape 

production designs

Designs for layout to identify which objects belong to which group (and therefore at what point they appear in the continuity)

Nobile's office

Nobile's office (finally simplified in layout)

Nobile's office

Nobile's office

Positio n of Nobile's office in the hanger

The location of Nobile's office in the roof of the hanger at Ciampino

The hanger and Nobile's office
The interior of the hanger
First rough design for the bar
First rough design for the bar
first rough drawing of the piazza
first rough drawing of the piazza
The west side of the piazza
The west side of the piazza
The east side of the piazza
The east side of the piazza
The piazza in the film
The piazza in the film
The evil squirrel fascist logo (so as not to use the actual Italian fascist logo))
The evil squirrel fascist logo (so as not to use the actual Italian fascist logo))
and in the film
and in the film
bougainvillea research
bougainvillea research
simplified flowers
simplified flowers
bougainvillea in the film
bougainvillea in the film
The station in Rome

The station in Rome: based on Gare d'Orsay

design for north pole device (Nobile's invention to find the North Pole)
design for north pole device (Nobile's invention to find the North Pole)
The North Pole Device in the film
The North Pole Device in the film
Logo

Designs for logo

posters
Norwegian character posters

Designs for Norwegian character posters

Norwegian character posters

character / FX  integration

colourmodel
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