The Making of Waterfall City

Plus: "The Pedestal Problem" and "Filling the Bucket"

Jason asked: “How do you approach creating a panoramic scene like Waterfall City? Does it take a lot of planning or preliminary work?

Jason, in a word, yes! In this case I spent years trying to figure out the idea in the form of rough sketches.

Actually there were two versions of Waterfall City. The first appeared in Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (19…