Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Die Hard.: with a vengeance


I made 2 or 3 thousand gold bars for this show.  Most of them are for sale now on the internet.  If only I'd known.....
I also built all the break-away columns in the train station.

Hunger Games

THIS I was really proud of.
This 10 second scene was the result of me and 5-9 guys working for about a month.

The world will never have any idea how damn beautiful this set was.  Trust me....it was magnificent.
There wasnt a straight line in it and there were no true radii. The whole set was from ellipse's.
The spring points of the three ellipse's were OUTSIDE the car!

Even the wallpaper was cut to cover a compound curve.  The little rails in the bar were bent polycarbonate, not acrylic.  This was one of the prettiest things I've ever done.  Shot in about an hour.

This is the District 13 hospital.  It was a beast.  No steel was used to hold up the ceiling, just good old truss joists.
I did this set 90% and left to coordinate another show.
I'm really proud of this.  My crew was firing on all cylinders.






Uncle Drew


I built three (3!) basketball courts for this show.
I got to be an expert on basketball courts and van conversions.

Honey: Rise Up and Dance

Totally forgettable film but I gave them a set they didn't deserve.  Ladies and gentlemen see what $30,000 spent the right way looks like.

Leisure Seeker






We cut up four 1972 Winnebagos and turned them into 3; one totally practical, one spare, and one with wild walls.
This was done on a shoestring budget and we pulled it off with flying colors.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Muppets from Space

I and my crew carved all the rocks on all the sets.




I carved the asteroid news desk
I carved the truck
and the cannon
and my crew and I carved all the wood for the ark

Zombieland 2009

skull, 1 day for carving.about 20 feet tall and only 8 inches thick.