Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Spotting and dressing plan. This was located in the parking lot outside the studio in BatonRouge and had all of our ruined buildings in it.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2 (the Bendix Building), 1st-floor plan. We had three buildings in the set, this was the most Involved. A lot of what I did were models in SketchUp stacking containers and laying out walls around them.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2, 2nd-floor, plan. This plan has the remains of shallow rooms behind it as if rooms were exposed when the building's curtain wall collapsed.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2, 3rd-floor, plan. This section sat on top of our container stack.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2, 4th and 5th-floor, plans. These walls were framed in steel, and welded to the containers so they wouldn't blow down in a storm. We had a hurricane and they did survive.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2, front facade developed elevation.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #2, sections. These are examples of a very rushed set of my pencil drawings. Still, the Art Director was happy.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles. Building #1. This is a wierd one. We did this building in CG and by this time we knew it. But since I had drawings done for our model maker (physical models), we sent this drawing to VFX instead of a 3D file.
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles, finished set. This is one of the few times I have gotten stills while we were filming, so enjoy the pyro...
Exterior, "3rd Act", Ruins of Los Angeles, finished set.
Interior LAV25, plan. The turret was practical which was a big thing, since it had a basket that turned with the turret. That basket held two men and a BUNCH of dressing, much of it the real deal, which meant that it was quite heavy.
Interior LAV25, sections.
Interior LAV25, flat pattern. Because the LAV25 was all angles I unfolded all of the faces and laid them out flat so the Propmakera wouldn't have to take time figuring all the angles out. One of the advantages of 3D design.
Interior LAV25, practical night vision display detail part 1. We had a lot of script pages in the LAV25 so it was as detailed as we could make it. Anything that had electronics in it was classified, so we built replicas.
Interior LAV25, practical night vision display detail part 2. The night vision system had to have a practical display that worked off an LED screen. This was one of many units built for the set, but it was the most complex.
Battle: Los Angeles, as the name implies is a Sci-Fi action movie about an alien invasion of Los Angeles. The movie was filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana because Shreveport looks SO MUCH like L.A. (?). We built a portion of ruined Santa Monica in a Baton Rouge parking lot, the interior of a LAV25 armored vehicle. And spotted fifty wrecked cars and trucks on a freeway offramp. This last required adding three hundred feet of blown-up concrete block walls to match L.A.'s freeways. And that was just me. We had two other Set Designers. I was drawing digitally, but the art director asked me to do our ruins in pencil, so I have both digital and pencil drawings for this show. The buildings had to have ramps of debris and collapsed floors, plus they needed that honeycomb look you see when walls fall from a building. As it was hurricane season, we tied our structures to stacks of containers. Tying the facades to the containers caused problems with the Honeycomb look we were aiming for as there was only so much cantilever that we could stick to a shipping container. Debris ramps were made by piling hay bales inside voids in the container stacks and covering them with debris. The whole thing was so involved, I had to color code the drawings for the construction crew so they could figure out which department was responsible for what. I include these as well. It was also very humid. And the AC never worked right in the building. Wah.
