Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer. Plan for the physical build. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout.
Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer. Plan for VFX extensions. Modeled in SketchUp, drawn in Layout.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, parade ground. Finished Set (our production Designer started as and art photographer, so you know when he shot the pictures, because they are pretty).
Exterior Ft. Berringer, parade ground. Finished Set.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, parade ground. Finished Set (I took these, they are far less arty. Sorry).
Exterior Ft. Berringer, view toward detention compound. Finished Set.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, stable tac house. Working Set. This is the view towards the main character's quarters. The door to that building lined up exactly with the cell door of his Native American counterpart. Over six hundred feet away.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Main gate detail.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Main gate. Finished set.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Outdoor cell detail. These are not the cells that line up with the main character's quarters.
Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Outdoor cells. Finished set.
Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Cellblock plan, and reflected ceiling plan. The center cell is the one I mentioned earlier. The dimensioning had to be very tight to make sure that everything lined up.
Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Cellblock elevations.
Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Cellblock details.
Interior/Exterior Ft. Berringer, internment compound. Working set.
Hostiles Is a western shot in Santa Fe New Mexico. My job was the design of Fort Berringer, an internment camp for hostile Indians. At one end we had the parade ground, with barracks and officer’s quarters, on the other (500 feet away) we had the internment facility. The entire fort was designed digitally and versions spun off to construction and VFX. Both the main character’s quarters and the internment compound had functional interiors. We made the adobe walls of our buildings with actual adobe bricks. Construction sawed them in half and attached them to flats with linoleum mastic (so the load of 100,000 bricks went twice as far). Needless to say, not many wild walls on that set.
