While I was field art directing Seuss Landing at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure I found this band, on Caro-Seuss-El to be one of the most difficult for painting. It’s relatively flat, for Seuss, how could it be so hard? Well, the senior art director had come up with this design on paper. It looked great, and he had even created a developed view of it (making it into one long strip) so that we could all see that it would work. And then we got into the field.
While we were building this band in full scale it seemed to squash and stretch a little. That didn’t matter while it was all one color, but it did matter when we started to paint. The design didn’t line up with the cutout shape. I hadn’t designed the original, so I didn’t know all of the details, or thinking that went into it. I only had the finished art to go by. But I dove in anyway. I had to draw much of the pattern for the painters (anywhere that they couldn’t figure out). Then we had to figure out what color went where.
It was just another day in the whimsical world of Seuss Landing.
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