- [Karl] Detailing in these monsters is incredible.
- [Woonyoung] The war has so many different elements.
So characters, props, locations, colors, and light.
All those elements create a world
that supports the story.
- [Chris] We were all working together to make something
that would make you feel like you really were there.
- [Narrator] We're about to go behind the
animation of The Sea Beast.
(sea creature screeching)
- The setting of the movie is a world very much
like our own around 1700s.
So it's the era of the tall sailing ships.
And in this world, the sea beasts that you see depicted
on those old maps are real.
So this has given rise to a new vocation
which is a sea monster hunter.
(creatures clashing)
- Can't make a movie like this, I don't think
without planning for a big monster fight.
- It is such an epic scene.
Red is actually very nice looking compared to the rest
of them. One thing I loved about the animation
for this was how much personality Red has.
- With Red, we wanted to make her really feel
like she was the queen of the monsters.
- So we are really focusing on creating her form
and shape, really elegant and hydrodynamic.
We talk a lot about like how she's gonna move like a lion.
Meaning, lions are very efficient in their movement.
Of course she's gonna be burst out
like, show some anger sometimes, but then in general
she's an ancient divine creature.
So lion was, fits really nicely.
- In the midst of this epic battle
between these two gargantuan monsters, you have poor Jacob
and Maisie just trying to struggle to survive.
And indeed, actually join the fight at
certain points when they can.
- We didn't want to have just the creatures battling
and the humans be the audience.
We wanted to be very much involved in the story.
We really wanted to construct a really dynamic
and spectacular scene, but at the same time, we wanted it to
be a character based scene, where the relationship
between Maisie and Jacob was going to evolve
over the course of the scene.
And it almost happens invisibly.
- It's below us.
(beast crashing into ship)
(crew screaming)
(creature screeching)
(man screaming)
- We really wanted to lay out how it all works.
And we wanted to be very clear
in establishing that the hunters are the good guys
and the monsters are the bad guys.
So with the Brickleback which is the
first creature that you meet, we really wanted
that one to look almost prototypically scary
and really make it seem like it's the stuff of nightmares.
- We know that Brickleback has to have
tentacles, and then long tails
and then it's gonna have a really strong exoskeleton.
So when we first designed it
we actually designed the Brickleback vertically narrow.
We chose that direction because we know
that Brickleback will swim like a snake, but then
that form doesn't quite work in the sequence
because it doesn't make the creature powerful and heavy.
We ended up actually flattening Brickleback horizontally.
Then Brickleback became like an alligator shape.
So when he swims you will get to see
a little bit of exokeleton.
So Brickleback is gonna swim like
an alligator, not just a snake.
That created a really cool effect.
- I don't know how the war started.
Maybe all that matters is how it ends.
- And there's this wonderful sequence where Jacob
and Maisie take refuge inside big Red's nose.
- In the nostril area, it was really
hard to find a reference because
we wanna be realistic, grounded, but also
at the same time, not ugly, not disgusting.
So the solution we came up with
is, let's just go with the concept, what the
emotion requires from this space
and then Chris wanted to be claustrophobic.
To make the space aesthetically pleasing we just
designed a really nice curved shape within it.
So that it looks not just like a tube
it looks like a nostril, but also
at the same time appealing.
- There's a lot of beauty in the scene
with like, the jellyfish and it's quite calming.
- We really wanted a contrast
between this really ferocious storm where just
visually it's chaotic and it's loud and it's terrifying
but the moment that they go under water, suddenly it's
placid and it's peaceful and
it's almost the opposite tonally.
(water crashing)
- So if you look at the inevitable, it is actually heavily
based on the 15th century and that we added some
fantastical elements.
We were imagining seas beasts, is
gonna constantly be attacking them from underneath.
So they needed metal plates on the bottom of the ship.
- Even if you don't know much
about ships, I think you feel it.
You feel there's something
about it that feels plausible and real.
- All together, now! Heave away!
- We spent some time with an expert, Gordon Laceau
and he is very well versed in Naval history.
Also just Naval tactics, the kind of
maneuver ships would do.
And he also was the one that suggested
that archers would actually be something
that would be very useful against sea monsters.
(epic music)
- Every single scene in this movie
has exceeded what I imagined, hands down.
- The film does do a really good job
in showing the monsters and the emotions.
- I see a fire in her. Same fire I saw in you.
(man thudding against ship)
- Make sure to check out The Sea Beast. Only on Netflix.
- Thanks for watching Netflix Film.
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