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Behind the Scenes with the Set Designers of "Isle of Dogs"

Here's how they created the environments and effects, all physically and practically

By Rain Noe - April 25, 2018

in Interior/Exhibition Design

If you like seeing behind-the-scenes footage of environments and atmospheres being fabricated, here we have a real treat.

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For the stop-motion animated "Isle of Dogs," director Wes Anderson's fairly insane demand that all sets (and even effects like smoke, fire, water) be created practically provided the production designers with a serious challenge.

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A small army of craftspeople rose to the task.

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There's lots of great shots of people building the sets…

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…though I do wish there were more shots of the concept art as well.

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It's super cool to see how faithfully they matched the sets to the original concept sketches.

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I also wanted to see more photos of the shop environments…

…which are all too fleeting in this vid:

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Have any of you actually seen the movie, by the way? And if so was it any good? (No spoilers please.) I know I could just read a review, but I want to know what the designers among you thought of it.

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Bert Green

7 years ago

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I thought the movie was cinematically beautiful and delightfully quirky, but it was a bit slow and tiresome and lazy solutions to plot challenges at crucial moments detracted from an otherwise enjoyable concept.

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Juan Cano

7 years ago

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I haven't seen it yet. I hope they put out like a 2-hour long behind the scene video because this is just way too fast.

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Steve Caruso

7 years ago

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Yes! I actually thought the practical effects were very important in communicating the story. Personally, I tend to over-rationalize film plots so the stylized sets and characters helped me get over that and appreciate it at face value.

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