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7 2 P E R S P E C T I V E | M AY / J U N E 2 0 2 4 The VAD Process for the Art Department. Since we had some knowledge of what a set MAY look like from the animated series, we would use that as our jumping-off spot. In the example featured on these pages, the Burned Forest was a very memorable set from the cartoon. We clearly wanted to make this more realistic and definitely more horrifying to the viewer. I did a bad sketch. This is always fun because two of the Art Directors on the team (Andrew Budyk is a trained architect and Marshall McMahon is a very competent DRAWER) get a great deal of amusement at just how bad my drawings are… In my defense, these doodles convey intention just perfectly. The sketch gets improved by an Art Director or a Concept Artist and gets sent to the Virtual Art Department which begin to turn it into something more usable in The Volume. (A & B) We met regularly (over Zoom) with a group called Happy Mushroom. They took the concepts and turned them into a model. Once the model was approved, it went out to The Volume Production Burned Forest previs from Unreal. Volume outline superimposed on Unreal model. Burned Forest concept drawing by Happy Mushroom. Burned Forest volume plan.