Burning The Car.

It was a fairly spontaneous and last minute decision to burn the car. It was to be part of the montage scene, and was encouraged by pretty much everyone because of all the agro the car caused, and we all wanted to see it burn to the ground. On a very cold December 2nd night we burned it to the ground! There was a lot of heath and safety to worry about but we got Chris Dubock from the visual effects department to help. He is the guy you go to in Beaconsfield when you want to burn things or blow anything up.

Puppeteering in front of massive flames in the freezing cold was a little challenging. As the other puppeteers had already left by this point, I puppeteered Manny with Paco. Terry the composer and Terry the animation student who puppeteered with me over the summer, were on Glenn.


Rehearsing the shot. There was a lot of pressure to get it right first time, as there is only one car. One take. 

Chris rigging the car up to burn. As far as I know he was using fabric soaked in lighter fluid and putting it inside the car. None of us were sure how well the car would burn because of all the different materials on it. 

More rehearsals 

Lighting it up!