Talks

From Phoenician Scheme to Grand Budapest Hotel: Designing Miniature Sets for Wes Anderson Films

Simon Weisse at VIEW Conference 2026

Simon has been working in the film industry for over 30 years in different domains, special effects, visual effects, propmaking, art direction since The Adventures Of Baron Münchhausen by Terry Gilliam, followed by films like Event Horizon, The City Of Lost Children, Hellboy, V For Vendetta, Cloud Atlas, Queer and many more. He specialized again in miniature sets for VFX for all the Wes Anderson films since The Grand Budapest Hotel