Hier habe ich einige Infos zur Entstehung des HIStory-Covers gefunden:

The album cover was commissioned to be designed by Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co. The fisrt stage was to create Michael' statue from cup, what was taken up by Diana Walczak. Inspiration was drawn from a monument standing somewhere in Russia.
Kleiser - Walczak Construction Company was set up in 1989 by Diana Walczak and Jeff Kleiser. They experimented with 3D figures, which they called Synthespians.
It was Diana and Jeff who created such a computer figure that moved like a living creature.
The best examples of contemporary animation were the singer Dose in "Don`t Touch My" video and short clip "Sextone for President"
Michael Jackson chose the Kleiser - Walczak company to have the cover and the short film for his new album HIStory designed.
During this project Diana Walczak used four cameras to get Jackson's suitable shots. She created an incredibly precise sculpture for digital processing and rendering.

Diana Walczak, instead of drawing him decided to use computer graphics to create a realistic image in perfect quality. The computers helped in creanting lighting, the details, texture and setting the angle of cameras.

Before she proceeded to work she sought for a suitable picture, which would be a point of reference for the statue. Sam Emerson helped with that project; he was responsible for shots during the whole shooting. He chose a picture from the Dangerous tour - when Michael stands on stage just after jumping out from a hole in it. And that way Diana found picture which presented Michael from different sides.

Michael's clay sculpture measured 120 centimetres.

When modelling of Jackson was finished, the sculpture was placed in a polyurethane form. They made also 4 thousands "stripes" that were used to mark the topography of work, they were also used for digital processing and to send the data to computer. This task was charged to Metrocom firm.


When the work on both models - the 3D and the polyurethane one was finished, they were used to produce series different, larger models which were later distributed in the whole Europe. They were to announce Jackson's appearing in different cities accotding to his HIStory tour.
This cover has several variants, on the official one the sky is cloudy, the cover of DVD vol.II is gold and on DVD vol.I the whole statue on pedestal is visible.
This statue was also used in production of "Teaser" where it is shown in a great scale. It was to be unveild on a huge square in front of thousands of spectators.
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