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The NFL’s interior art department has created a number of iconic images for the game’s home stadiums.
But there’s one iconic image from every stadium, the cathedral art interior.
“It’s one of those images that stands out,” said Mike Schott, NFL vice president of visual effects.
“The cathedral interior, the first thing we had to do was to find an interior design that would be visually striking, and the cathedral interior was an absolute must.
We didn’t have much room to work with, but we knew what we were looking for.”
With the cathedral image, the team created the interior concept art for a cathedral inside of the dome, the interior line art for the stadium’s outside, and then used the interior images to create the interior elements of the stadium.
“The cathedral is a very iconic image, it’s a very significant image,” said Schott.
“It’s something that you can really tell is a cathedral in the game, but it’s also something that we can go and look at and really look at the stadium and see how it looks like.”
The interior line of art, for example, was based on the exterior and interior concept arts, but with the cathedral, it was based around the cathedral itself.
“It really helps you understand how the cathedral would look, and how it would feel,” said Greg Zeller, a team concept artist and former NFL interior designer.
“You could really see the interior lines and the interior pieces in the cathedral.”
The cathedral artwork was created in the same way as the interior design: by first drawing and then animating the image.
It took about four months, from the moment the idea was floated, until the actual interior design was created.
“Once we had that, we knew we had the right idea,” said Zeller.
“We really got to work together and then we started to refine it and make sure that it was in the right direction.”
In the case of the cathedral concept art work, the idea came from a couple of people, as Zeller explained.
The interior artist was Dave Stemmer, the former NFL player and interior designer, who also did the interior for the Atlanta Falcons.
“Dave was the one who suggested the idea for the cathedral,” said Stemner.
“He had been working on it for a couple years, and Dave told me, ‘Look, we want to make something really, really beautiful.'”
The interior artist, who has worked on NFL stadiums for 20 years, had previously worked on the Chicago Bears and the New England Patriots.
He’s also worked for the Washington Redskins, the New York Jets, the Miami Dolphins, and several other teams.
“We were talking to the interior guys about what they liked and didn’t like about the stadium, and they said they really liked the cathedral exterior,” said Scott Waugh, the NFL interior artist.
“So, we said, ‘Okay, we can do this.'”
With the design of the interior artwork, the goal was to make the exterior look like a cathedral.
“You can really see how much cathedral has to do with how it feels,” said Waugh.
It’s almost like a sculpture inside of a cathedral.””
There’s a little bit of everything.
It’s almost like a sculpture inside of a cathedral.”
It took about a month and a half to create all the interior and exterior artwork for the dome interior.
The project was very much in the early stages, but the team was so pleased with the final result that they were willing to do more with it.
“If you look at what we’ve done for the interior, it has been really great, and we really want to continue to do that,” said Kevin McNulty, vice president and general manager of the team.
“To see something like this, the quality is incredible.”
They said it was the best interior art that they had ever done, and that they wanted to do something with it.
“A few days before the game kicked off, the exterior art was put on display in the stadium lobby.
It was a large-scale outdoor installation of interior art.
It was done by the interior team, the design team, and a group of interior artists.
The exterior art included some interior line-art and some interior concept images.
Inside the dome.
Source: NFL.com/NFLGameCenter