Stage 1 : Rough pencil sketches, studio photographs of front views of 12 watches including straps / bracelets, and stock shots of moon surfaces, astronaut and moon buggy supplied by client.
Stage 2 : Retouching watches and removing straps. Color grading to make overall contrast density and color balance more harmonic with eventual environments.
Stage 3 : 3D model making of Soyuz type spacecraft, UFO, Sputnik and Satellite dish.
Stage 4 : 3D model making of five new / replacement watch cases / lugs / bezels and one total re-build of face for watch in satellite dish. 'Saturn's rings' added to distant planet watch.
Stage 5 : Materials assigned, lighting and environment worked on and final renders produced.
Stage 6 : Photographic watch faces skewed where necessary and married up with rendered models.
Stage 7 : Buzz Aldrin flipped and retouched and isolated from original background. Moon surfaces, rocks and craters manipulated, and various parts blended together and colored.
Stage 8 : Final compositing of all elements, with care to avoid central gutter running through center of DPS formats.
Client : Daily Telegraph, London. Art Director : Gary Cochran,
