Quodlibet: On Set

 One of the fun parts of shooting on a virtual set, is that you get to see the sunrise as often as you like. Here are a couple of new on-set images of some of the scenes being shot for the trailer and pilot (the underlying images here are very large files - if you click any, they may take a little while to load). 

Here, our lead is entering the town along the Kings Highway to York, employing a wagon we found and modelled from a contemporaneous woodcut.

With the environment undergoing a radical optimization, time has come to substitute in the higher quality 3D models - including a rebuild of St Mary, based on a series of sketches made of the front of the church before its refurbishment in the 19th century.

We are still torn by the size of St Mary's tower 'pyramids' - the Henry VIII plat suggests these were much higher than the most recent build.

We have also finally been able to load the out-of-town forests. I have lots of favorite places on the set - particularly here, at the intersection of town fields and forest, in an area still called the Huntress Row. Here I sit between animation shoots wondering if this an echo of the Roman Diana and the earlier Greek Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation? Or does it date from the crusades which first drew the second sons away from home and then took all the others, leaving woman to protect the small towns and hamlets?

I am off to hospital for a couple of days now - back later this week to start shooting a scene involving a violent storm where the sea meets the east cliff - something which should seriously test the set.