dennis gassner, the art director of the film, had built a simple model of vegas with some new buildingsnd and so forth, we took those two and sort of smashed them together initially. we looked for ways very subtly of how to bring in the human element into the shots, how to sell that scale, analysing some of syd's work and how he used graphics on the face of his buildings, how he in a lot of his paintings used little human scale futuristic items. we built all that stuff and placed it around the city in an organised way to make it look like people were there at one time, even though we see no one, and that's what made it look real or look like a place people could have been in. to build trash mesa was based on the idea that everyone had moved to the city and all the structures are outside the city had been pretty much abandoned. there was no power, no water, nothing outside, so the trash generated for the city was dumped on the buildings outside the city. again, we're trying to base things on as much reality as we could, so we started with the landscape of current day california, from los

dennis gassner, the art director of the film, had built a simple model of vegas with some new buildings and so forth, we took those two and sort of smashed them together initially. we looked for ways very subtly of how to bring in the human element into the shots, how to sell that scale, analysing some of syd's work and how he used graphics on the face of his buildings, how he in a lot of his paintings used little human scale futuristic items. we built all that stuff and placed it around the city in an organised way to make it look like people were there at one time, even though we see no one, and that's what made it look real or look like a place people could have been in. to build trash mesa was based on the idea that everyone had moved to the city and all the structures are outside the city had been pretty much abandoned. there was no power, no water, nothing outside, so the trash generated from the city was dumped on the buildings outside the city. again, we're trying to base things on as much reality as we could, so we started with the landscape of current day california, from los

dennis gassner, the art director of the film, had built a simple model of vegas with significant buildingsh mesa was based on the idea that everyone had moved to the city, and all the structures outside the city had been pretty much abandoned. there was no power, there was no water, nothing outside. so the trash that‘s generated from the city was dumped on the buildings outside the city. again, we‘re trying to base things on as much reality as we could. so we started with the landscape of current—day california, from los angeles to san diego, and we determined iceland the sequence of the ships was based on the bangladesh ship harvesting yard where they recapture all the metal, and so forth, that happens now. so a lot of the ships, and the pieces of the ships, and the idea of these little tiny human beings working on these massive structures sort of drove that look through the middle of that sequence. so it‘s a matter of grabbing all these components that were based on today‘s reality, scaling them so they have this massive relationship between k in his little spinner and this enormous land