![]() ![]() So we’d have isles that were like Mumbai or New Delhi, and then you’d be in Hong Kong or Shanghai.” We decided that we had to make this supermarket feel as if it is the entire world to these foods and products. “The script would say, ‘This takes place in a supermarket’, and so we had to come up with that and all the locations they visit. One of the biggest challenges for Nitrogen, notes Tiernan, was that the entire art direction, production, design and animation of Sausage Party was left up to him and Vernon and the team at Nitrogen. So we really helped shape the story that way.” It was maybe a little bit more traditional in that our guys could get in there and get the gags in. “But what was really fabulous,” she adds, “was they took the input from us and really embraced the storyboarding phase. “They really find actors to work with that they bring something to the table in terms of their ideas and the same thing happened with this production.” “Their process for live-action filmmaking is lots of coverage, lots of on rewriting lines on set,” outlines Stinn. Rogen and Goldberg well well-versed in live-action but animation was a new beast. It would take around seven years to flesh out ideas, develop (and change) the script and make the film. “They’re in ignorance of the fact that as soon as they get bought by the shoppers they get ritually slaughtered, massacred, and devoured.” “It’s a pretty horrible existence they live in, really,” comments Tiernan. The idea was compelling - a movie about the secret life of food. Aliens, and he said, ‘I’m working on this great idea, I don’t know if we’ll ever get it off the ground with this movie with Seth Rogen about sausages that want to fuck buns.’ And we said at the time, ‘If you ever need any help with that just let us know.’ And, maybe eight months later we got a call from him saying, ‘You know that crazy sausage movie idea is actually gaining some traction, do you guys want in?’” “Conrad was already involved and he came up to visit us at the studio - actually he was up here for a SPARK ANIMATION presentation on his film Monsters v. It was actually during production on Thomas & Friends back in 2009 that Tiernan first heard about Sausage Party. That’s a far cry from Sausage Party, but the children’s project had pushed the studio to more than 140 artists at one point. Nitrogen, which has been around since 2003, is most well known for its work on the CG animated series Thomas & Friends. Nitrogen CCO Greg Tiernan, who directed the film with Conrad Vernon, and Nitrogen CEO and line producer Nicole Stinn, discuss the best, and, er, wurst, sides of making Sausage Party. Instead, independently owned Vancouver-based outfit Nitrogen Studios - which actually has a long history in production - was behind the animation. If they do so, they’ll have also broken without one of the major animation studios. Adults-only animated features with wide releases are rare beasts, but creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are perhaps hoping to buck that trend. Sausage Party is an R-rated romp inside the lives of supermarket foods as they wage war against humans. How Vancouver Animation Studio Nitrogen Got Sausage Party Started
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