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Are they too bright? How many should there be? How many should have motion? How many should be static? There was considerable trial and error just playing around with timing and the overall visual complexity.” What we discovered was that if the screens changed too frequently, it was far too distracting.
We did several tests with establishing shots of the city. We should have lots of screens that are constantly changing, as well as lots of videos. According to Petti, “Screen graphics was a very early concept. They also came up with the concept of having buildings covered in screens and video billboards, constantly changing signage that helps establish the energy of a city that itself is alive. So, we came up with this idea where there’s a certain number of similar buildings, and then you stick in certain eye-catchers."Ĭoncept art for the world of the Internet shows how circuit board design is integrated into roads and sidewalks.
“That didn’t work because you don't know which one to look at. The quickly ran into problems of scale as well as design – how many buildings are needed, and what should they look like? “One of the first ideas for the Internet was every building was unique,” Lechner explains. The bigger the website, the bigger the building. Soon, referencing big cities like New York, London and Shanghai, they started settling on the idea that if the Internet was a city, then buildings would represent websites. Pictures they took of the assorted gear resembled aerial shots of a city. What they found was a jumbled mess – miles of cables, servers, rack mounts and datacom switches. In this case, a trip to One Wilshire in downtown Los Angeles, one of the most connected buildings in the entire world, purportedly where one-third of all Internet traffic from Asia is routed to the U.S. Where do you begin the task of turning the abstract concepts of the Internet into the bustling metropolis we see in the highly anticipated sequel to the original 2012 hit film, Wreck-it Ralph? For the environments team, it began, as all Disney animated films do, with research. “When I was asked to design the world of the Internet, it was daunting,” Lechner notes. All Right Reserved.įor Matthias Lechner, art director, environments, Larry Wu, head of environments and Ernie Petti, technical supervisor, the job of visualizing and then building the world of the Internet for Disney’s upcoming animated comedy adventure, Ralph Breaks the Internet, was as intimidating as it was exciting. ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet.’ All images © 2018 Disney.