Ringelreih

The Making-Of

04 // the final image
That's how the final composition looked like. Most fine art-direction has been managed by Ralph, whilst we were under high pressure...we could not even make our own generously set dead-line.
Post added roughly five hours to the creation time.

03 // pre-version
The whole process of post-production took me about 11 hours. Ralph called me lots to help me out with some hints on things like changing some minor, but important details, i never would have looked at, though i only concentrated on a clean and nice look of the image.
This included the toughest part of making clay look like porcelain/shiny plastic. Went out pretty good, rite? :)

02 // face-changes
All i basically did was getting rid of the blemishes the guys received in the build-up process, changed the weird freaky eyes, aligned their looks to the camera and made them look more real (Ralph's superb idea to add mustaches and blushing cheeks).

01 // the base-shot
Here you see the light set-up which was made off constructionyard spotlight. I blocked their direct light with some Dextro-boxes and created the indirect light with a silver reflecting mat, that Carine had to hold up over the dwarfs in each shot (too bad we don't have a photo of this ;))
(As described in the main-blog, the idea with the dwarfs came from Laura and then the decision was made to have our sculptors Andi and Matthias made 5 dwarfs from our sketches out of clay, because the idea of taking proper dwarfs and manipulating them failed in our pre-tests.)

Behind The Scenes
the set-up
the production-team
the exact adjustment and a final homage to a stressy day