Artist George Hull, responsible for much of the concept work behind the Wachowskis’ highly anticipated Cloud Atlas , spoke to io9 about the fascinating process he used to create one of the film’s many worlds. Hull focuses on the city of Neo Seoul, a futuristic dystopian city built up from the flooded remains of Old Seoul. Apparently, many of the concept ideas came from Skype chats with Lana and Andy Wachowski , and Hull says that during a conversation about the origin of Old Seoul, “I closed my eyes trying to picture it in my head. I instantly merged their description with a photograph of a mountain range in Vietnam that spiked out of the ocean like giant fingers with tiny fishing boats juxtaposed against them for scale.” For more on…

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The concept art behind the futuristic cities of ‘Cloud Atlas’

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