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9 0 P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 2 2 I loved the first Sing, laughed a lot and also held back a few tears of emotion when I first saw it on the big screen. So, when coproducer Nathalie ancauwenberghe and writerdirector Garth Jennings asked me to be the Art Director on Sing 2, it was with great pleasure that I oined the team. he first Sing takes place in the small town of Bell City with its calm pace, pastelcolored houses and a sweetness of life. It takes place mainly in Buster Moon's small theater. Sing 2 takes the audience to a whole dierent world of entertainment, on a much larger scale. Buster Moon and his team were going to have to play in the Big League. Among the very first visuals to explore there was this great center of show business Redshore City. Garth had the opportunity to make a reconnaissance trip to Las egas and came back with numerous photos, which helped a lot in defining the look of Redshore. he Las egas photos particularly brought to mind a feeling of excess in the extraordinary scale of the buildings; playing with radically dierent architectural design associations and without any desire to homogenie styles, and not hesitating to put in place a sense of humor created by the association of obeat universes, such as an impressive chocolate fountain in the lobby of a hotel. It was important to surprise the audience when they entered with Buster into these grand hotels and discovered the excessively decorative interior architecture. he first explorations of what was going to become this great city then began to take shape A series of hotels emerged from the ground to line up along this large boulevard which would take Buster and his friends into the world of entertainment impresario Jimmy Crystal. he Wave hotel is built around the theme of the sea, with corals and shells. he Zeus hotel, in a world of ancient Greece, its facade illuminated with impressive thunderstorm lightning. he Japan hotel catches the eye and mesmeries with its animated circlescreen, all in a sleek A. OLIVIER ADAM. DRAWING-DESIGN RESEARCH FOR BUSTER'S ARRIVAL IN REDSHORE AND REDSHORE SIGN. DIGITAL ART. B. OLIVIER ADAM. DRAWING-DESIGN RESEARCH FOR REDSHORE HOTEL. THE WAVE HOTEL. DIGITAL ART C. OLIVIER ADAM. DRAWING-DESIGN RESEARCH FOR REDSHORE HOTEL. THE ZEUS HOTEL. DIGITAL ART. A B