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Animals These Frankenstein beasts were a pairing of available animals from local farms that were shot in camera, and then mashed together digitally with some sturdy stitches. Many funny disastrous combinations. Yorgos always chose the wild cards. Union used shot film, rather than creating these guys fully in CGI. Chapter Headings How Bella travelled the world was an interesting thing to work out, and in the end, she travelled on her own, in her mind. Somehow aviation and train travel always felt too ordinary for her. So, it was decided she should go by fish, a joke at first, that stuck and expanded into a miniature Bella leaping across fingertips and then floating on a slice of brain. The hand and brain being things she connected with and understood from her time in the surgery with Baxter. We always thought she would have more neural pathways than average, so her fantasies were as real as her fantastical life. The chapter headings were conceptualized by Plum Woods and Salwa McGill at Shona Heath Studio. The concept elements were then dissected, Emma Stone was shot by Yorgos and Robbie on a gym horse (riding a fish) running over a plank (crossing the eyeball bridge) floating underwater (in the bubble) or floating overwater (on a brain). We used bespoke shot footage of inky water tanks by Chris Parks and Tone Bjordam to create visceral fluids for Bella to float through. These elements were then crafted back together as a moving image by Time Based Arts London. There were so many other talented Art Directors, draftspeople, set decorators, Model Makers, carpenters, painters, props, Graphic Artists and many, many more who helped create and bring the world of Poor Things to life, who aren't mentioned here, but were none the less important to the process. ADG Shona Heath, James Price, Production Designers James Lewis, Adam A. Makin, Super vising Art Directors Renátó Cseh, Jutka Csák, Jonathan Houlding, Zsófia Kóthay, Bence Kalmár, Krisztina Szilágyi, Dániel Miklós, Art Directors Lili Lea Abraham, Linda Bándi, Csongor Egyed, László Tibor Erdélyi, Laura Ng, Assistant Art Directors Csaba Budai, Nóra Bíró, Carlotta Giacomin, Mikós Deák Hatvani, Bence Németh, Ádám Nagy, Orsolya Maza, Jovánka Sztilkovics, Steven X. Haber, Daniel Warren, Set Designers Jonas Bethge, Florian Fickert, Gergely Fodor, Antonio Niculae, Concept Artists Judith Hynes, Tamás Pál, Graphic Artists Zsuzsa Mihalek, Set Decorator C D E F