The production designer for The Matrix films has revealed how he cooked up the series of scrambled symbols known as the Matrix code, and its origins might surprise you.
The Matrix franchise is known for its deep metaphors and clever double entendres, with its signature artistic aesthetic garnering an almost unmatched cultural reverence.
Much of that was defined by or included the distinctive luminescent streaming “code,” a green jumble of shifting and scrolling symbols that represented the computerized Matrix.
In a recent interview with CNET, production designer Simon Whiteley revealed that the mysterious “green rain” was inspired by none other than his wife’s Japanese cookbooks.
"I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," Whiteley said.
According to the designer, who now works for Animal Logic, an animation and visual-effects studio based in Sydney, "Without that code, there is no Matrix.”
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