Will Krause came over again and helped me finalized the set for San Francisco street view.
Originally only 3 houses were constructed over a year ago. At one point, I figured the set will be huge, I put it aside until the last moment.
Now, there are 15 detailed houses and 13 simpler background houses.
The neighborhood grew so much!

Last 5 houses gradually get smaller, forcing perspective.
Something we learned to do since there is a limitation in the studio.

Many people often ask me what I do with the sets and how I store them.
Here is my trick. When I design the sets, I also design how to put them away.
They can be apart easily. For example the airport was constructed in over 7 parts. Some were held with paper clips. (Some fell apart during photographing, of course)

For the SF street view, the stairs in front of the houses made it very difficult to store.
Simpler bg houses are like Russian dolls, everything fit into the biggest house. For the detailed houses, I just pretended to play 3D Tetris and put into boxes.

After lots of work-in-progress posts and anticipation, we are very happy to announce that “Something Left, Something Taken” will be completed by March 1st.
In 2 weeks, we’ll hand the film to our sound designer.
Right now, we’re animating the last scene, editing, fixing up some scenes, rendering TIFF sequences to be composited. Last 3 miles of a long marathon called “making a film”.