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The Making of Waterfall City

The Making of Waterfall City

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

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James Gurney
Nov 22, 2024
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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…

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