Residential Street, Overview. Modeled in SketchUp. All the topography was digitally elevated by our surveyors. We imported the topo lines and converted them to terrane meshes. We then sculpted those meshes to make our grading plans.
Residential Street 'Craftsman House', presentation rough. Modeled in SketchUp.
Residential Street 'Craftsman House', Finished Set. This one pops up in a lot of commercials.
Residential Street 'Cape Cod House', presentation rough. Modeled in SketchUp.
Residential Street 'Cape Cod House', Finished Set.
Residential Street 'Green House', presentation rough. Modeled in SketchUp.
Residential Street 'Green House', Finished set.
Residential Street 'House 10'. Presentation rough, Modeled in SketchUp.
Residential Street 'House 10', Finished set.
Residential Street 'Schindler House'. Presentation rough. Modeled in SketchUp.
Residential Street 'Schindler House. Finished set. We used this in West World, season 3, and built a functional interior for it.
Commercial District, Presentation Overview. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Presentation Overview. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Hotel. Rough model. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Hotel. Street view model. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Hotel. Finished set.
Commercial District, Courthouse. Street view model. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Courthouse. Finished set.
Commercial District, Bank. Rough Model. Modeled in Sketchup.
Commercial District, Courthouse. Finished set. Our production designer is the guy on the right.
Commercial District, Block 1 Corner. Rough model. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Block 1 Corner. Finished set.
Commercial District, Block 1 'Bowling Alley'. Rough Model. Modeled in SketchUp.
Commercial District, Block 1 'Bowling Alley'. Finished Set.
Commercial District, Block G Brownstones. Presentation Rough. Modeled in SketchUp and drawn in Layout.
Commercial District, Block G. Building G5. Finished set.
Commercial District, Block G. Building G6. Finished set.
Commercial District, Block G. Building G7. Finished set.
Art directing The Golden Oak Ranch Project (GORP for short) for Walt Disney Corp was my second backlot after the Universal backlot rebuild in 1990. I was the number three man in the art department and, unlike my previous acquaintance with backlots, this was not a rebuild, but a project built from scratch. I roughed out the majority of the buildings in the residential and commercial districts of the project as 3d models and oversaw the drafting room where they were turned into working drawings by CAD operators. As if this were not complex enough, Disney had decided to make the entire facility fire-resistant. The frameworks holding the facades were red iron and the facades were framed in sheet metal studs and faced with aggregate surfaces, making this as much an engineering challenge as a design one. IMDB does not include facilities work as credits so this is not in the IMDB profile.
