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

Amundsen's hallway

Nobile's living room in the 1970s

Nobile's living room in the 1920s at night

The kitchen in the airship

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 dream sled

design for dream landscape

design for dream landscape

design for sled with penguins from an earlier version of the script

design for dream landscape

design for dream landscape

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 (finally simplified in layout)

Nobile's office

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



First rough design for the bar

first rough drawing of the piazza

The west side of the piazza

The east side of the piazza

The piazza in the film

The evil squirrel fascist logo (so as not to use the actual Italian fascist logo))

and in the film

bougainvillea research

simplified flowers

bougainvillea in the film

The station in Rome: based on Gare d'Orsay

design for north pole device (Nobile's invention to find the North Pole)

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
