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“You 3D scanned the faces of the three leads — Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, and Laurence Fishburne — for the sequence. What can you tell us about that process?”

Nic: “It was done at Industrial Pixel in Toronto one afternoon. The actors each sit on a turntable, a pattern is projected onto them while two cameras pick up the reflected points of light. The point cloud becomes geometry. Hugh and Mads hair was too fine so skullcaps were in place. The system captures pores! ”

“In some of the earlier concepts the faces of the actors are very recognizable. How did you come to the decision to make the faces of the actors more ambiguous?”

Andrew: “The “blood heads” of the three main characters exist in this very clean, minimalist environment to reflect the clinical, almost OCD-like nature of Hannibal’s character. We didn’t want to give the game away too early, so by keeping it pretty abstract at first and then only hinting at the faces initially, teasing out the reveal felt much more in keeping with the multilayered approach of the show.

We wanted to focus more on the characters themselves. It’s not your typical serial killer show — it’s much smarter than that, it’s much more psychological. Therefore we didn’t want to go down the obvious road of blood splatter or anything like that and kept the CG look to a minimum with simple, subtle camera moves. That way making it more unsettling, the desire was to create a sense of tension between beauty and elegance and the underlying horror of the show. ”

[Nic Benns and Andrew Popplestone, from the design studio Momoco, interview for Art of the Title on January 18, 2017

Image: 3D models material test]