SAVING BIKINI BOTTOM - environment design

Here’s a 3D concept for the sewer scene which later got trimmed down in the final cut, so this specific location is not in the film, but it was fun to design! This “room” gets flooded from all the pipes draining into it, submerging Sandy and SpongeBob. This location was built and lit in Blender with textures and waterfalls painted in Photoshop.

This all started with some doodles of wacky plumbing configurations. Then I had to tone it down a bit.

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Here, I’m playing around with different sized and shaped pipes to see how SpongeBob would fit inside the pipe alongside other sewer junk.

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