He was working with New Regency to get the film made. We talked about his movie a little bit, but it was more getting to know each other, and after that, I got the job.īTL: Had he already been on his travels to Asia and documenting things that got turned into the sizzle reel?Ĭlyne: This was before he had done that. Everything you can name sci-fi from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. We had lunch at Barney’s Beanery in Santa Monica, and we talked all things sci-fi for three hours. I did a little bit of a concept work on that, but she introduced me to Gareth. I got to know a couple of the producers, Kiri Hart, I got to know well a couple of the films. I was fortunate enough to be part of the rebooting of Star Wars with ILM, Disney. Several weeks after that, Disney purchased Lucasfilm and ILM, so everything changed on a dime, and they started up Star Wars. I lived in LA, and I wanted to eventually work with ILM and get into understanding the VFX side of things, so I joined ILM in 2013. James Clyne: I started in art departments and physical production art departments for a long time. You’re a bit of a mystery, because I saw your name in the credits, and I looked you up, and this was the first movie you’ve production designed, so how did you and Gareth end up going on this adventure together? James Clyne (photo provided by Disney)īelow the Line: You, Gareth and the whole team did a great job on this movie. (Having Oscar-winner Greig Fraser as one of its DPs didn’t hurt either.)īelow the Line spoke with Clyne over Zoom to learn more about the unconventional techniques used to make The Creator such a distinctly original and visual film. The look of Gareth Edwards ’ new sci-fi epic The Creator is going to be something many who see the movie will be talking about, since it doesn’t look like any other sci-fi movie out there, even while treading in the familiar territory of a war between humans and A.I.Įdwards worked with Production Designer James Clyne, formerly of Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in San Francisco, who helped attain Edwards’ vision of shooting the movie fully in Thailand with his actors to take advantage of that country’s beautiful vistas, then adding in all the robots, futuristic buildings and craft later.īecause of this, Clyne did much of his design work during the post process, allowing him, Edwards and the ILM team to build and modify this amazing futuristic world as needed to make The Creator look as jaw-droppingly gorgeous as it does. A scene from The Creator (20th Century Studios)
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