- Project
- WES ANDERSON SHORT STORIES
- Role
- Supervising Art Director
- Scope
- Roald Dahl short film
- Director
- Wes Anderson
- Production
- Netflix
Wes Anderson’s Netflix short films The Rat Catcher, Poison and The Swan make extensive use of forced perspective and theatrical techniques to create their distinctive visual style. We used carefully constructed sets, miniature environments and precisely positioned actors and props to manipulate the viewer’s sense of scale and space.
The theatrical quality of the sets, combined with controlled camera movements, painted backdrops and practical stagecraft, gives the films the appearance of elaborate storybook worlds.
THE RATCATCHER
For The Rat Catcher, I began with storyboard frames drawn by Jay Clarke and created a panoramic visual to establish the scale and relationship of the different set pieces.
From there, I modelled the principal storyboard views, assembling full-scale and forced-perspective elements within a scaled model of the stage. These visuals were used to show Wes how the scenery could move, transform and accommodate the required camera angles before being handed over to the concept artists and Art Director for final development and not intended as finished concept art, but working tools, allowing us to test scale, camera relationships and physical constraints before committing to construction before the art department started.
POISON
THE SWAN
