Escape Machine
Here are some of the initial designs for what was then called the "Get me out of here button". We first wanted it to be hundreds of buttons placed around Paris that would give out trips every day.
By Teenage Engineering
The client said that if we're going to give out trips, we'll need something more spectacular so we comped up this:
By Alex and I
After a bit of a production nightmare and people telling us we could only have a tiny amount of action for a large amount of money we started again from scratch and brought Pleix on board:
Initial Design
3D model
Final Product
There were 3 people inside the machine operating everything by hand like oompa loompas. The two lips came out from behind and the heart jumping on the trampoline was hidden inside the top of the box.
After watching the film online, you could go into first person view and take a chance at winning a ticket yourself. This was directed impromptu style by Clemens Purner, Alexander Kalchev and myself. Between rehearsals we had one take to capture the entire action...