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Perfectly timed for holiday shopping and Elvis’birthday in January, these officially licensed products from Running Press make the perfect gifts for Elvis fansold and new! Costume designer Marlene Stewart used light colors for Harper and darker tones for the Scavs and then added complexity. Kosinski wanted Harper to be in white, the traditional hero color. Stewart ended up creating a grey version to make it look more lived in. The costume also had to be practical given the time Cruise would spend in it. I use to work for Halfords and one of the services they offered was an Aircon regas / top up, so I have successfully done a few in my time. Roll forward to my Jimny ownership (no longer at Halfords) and I decided the Aircon could do with a top up, so connected my STP kit and proceeded to top up.

It was an unusual but very rewarding experience for Simon. “It’s a boy’s dream (to work Oblivion),” he said. “We all as kids drew something and here’s a big film studio behind it with one of the most famous actors and a very sophisticated director and they all pull on one string and make it happen.” Seeing his drawings and his design modifications become real is already one of the biggest highlight of his career. “I would call it a dream job,” he said. Simon designs his own vehicles and is currently working on a book incorporating his designs with a story. VISUAL WORK I am by no means an Aircon expert, but my Jimny is not following the simple Halfords or STP top up instructions. Visual effects supervisors Bjorn Mayer and Eric Barba worked with their respected teams to bring Kosinski’s vision to the screen. Mayer’s team at Pixomondo worked on the cloud work since many sequences had the main character flying around the planet. Mayer said their biggest challenge was generating ice on the bubble ship. Barba’s team at Digital Domain found the end sequence inside the massive space station the most difficult test. “It was a challenge to make it work on screen,” said Barba. It was impossible to get the correct low pressure reading, so I kept adding refrigerant in an attempt to get the dial in the correct zone. Got it in the correct area but noticed the load was so great on my compressor that the electric clutch was starting to slip, the compressor was almost stalling. I know this is not good so I removed some refrigerant, now possibly too much, and got the compressor happy again. Yes You can drive without damage so long as your air con compressor clutch is disengaged and you are not turning it. It should be if the Aircon is off, but they can rust on / off.Simon wasn’t too fond of the seatbelts “because I would think in the future you’d have something better than that.” But the seatbelts had to be practical and there’s not much you can do design-wise, he said. TOM CRUISE’S CUSTOM MADE SEAT

Growing up a fan of the classic television series Twilight Zone and films such as Planet of the Apes (1968) and Alien (1979), Kosinski earned an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and then graduated with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Columbia University. He lent his visual style to several commercials while working on the story of Oblivion. Oblivion features many visual highlights, including shots of the torch of the Statue of Liberty and the top of the Empire State building in a post-apocalyptic Earth. Perhaps the biggest challenge was the seemingly floating station where Harper and his friend Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) reside high up in the clouds above the Earth’s surface. The 804 VFX shots for the movie were almost evenly split between the two FX companies. Filmed on location in Iceland, Hawaii and Louisiana, 85% of Oblivion was shot live and 15% being all-CG shots. Going on location scouting for the movie was very helpful to Mayer and Barba because they could take pictures and draw concepts, which makes a huge difference later on, said Mayer. “You need to be there,” added Barba. Digital Domain was responsible for Tom Cruise fighting himself. Working with Kosinski, director of photography Claudio Miranda, the stunt team and Cruise, Barba and his team helped choreograph the shots when the actor is fighting a clone of himself. When some of the shots didn’t match, Digital Domain replaced Cruise’s face with a fully CG version by capturing a 3D scan of the actor’s head on a light stage.Darker colors and a complex helmet comprised of four separate sections were utilized for the Scavs. It took 30 minutes for the actors to put on the Scavs’ costumes. “They’re quite a gear to put on,” said Thieman. DESIGNING THE BUBBLE SHIP What began as a small film developed into a much bigger product when Kosinski expanded the universe of Oblivion. He didn’t anticipate the story becoming so big. “It was always a small character driven story and it always had this small cast of three or four characters but I knew the ideas were big and I wanted the landscape and the world that surround these characters to be large,” he said.