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Tell me about this technological image you offer to the viewer. How did you get to build that amazing place and structures?
We were very lucky to have two local microbreweries as location sponsors: Sknipa and Ali. They each let us in for one night (we had to do it at night, daylight would obviously never work, and the windows were really large there), and then we let Aliki transform them with all sorts of props and prints to make them feel authentic to the original intent. Of course, there was a lot of digital set extension and some compositing trickery required, but I still feel that, overall, set design and locations were the most important factor.
That said, a few of the machines that Drosia, Nana, and Constantinos had to interact with, had to be built! That was neither simple, nor cheap. Luckily we had Tasos, our chief builder, that took Aliki’s CAD designs and built the big sphere machine, as well as the cryochamber. From there, it was a matter of practically and digitally adding the little things that made them come alive.
Have you planned the next chapter yet or is it still a secret?
There are of course ideas about what could happen next, and we’ve known how we want the series to end since we started. What we haven’t decided is how long we want it to be: shall we make a grand finale and make it a trilogy, or shall we expand the universe and let some more threads unravel? We have even talked about making an animated episode. Another problem at the moment is funding: the scale of the next episode will largely be determined by its feasibility. We live in troubled times, especially here in Greece, so there are always unforeseen obstacles. We are confident, however, that an opportunity will present itself and, when that happens, we’ll nudge everything so that it’ll fall into place for episode III.
Thank you, Dani, for having the patience to answer all these questions. I am impatient to watch the next episodes of this amazing project!
Thank you Eva for your appreciation and support. Kind regards!