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The 2022 ADG Awards Winners Announced by the Art Directors Guild
The Art Directors Guild announces the 2022 ADG Awards winners including Dune, Nightmare Alley, No Time To Die, What We Do in the Shadows, and many more.
SPRING UPDATE: Hot Docs, Banksy, Anton Kuerti & Conan
Since I didn’t post much during the month of May I figured I’d let you in on what I have been up to outside the blog world. Hot Docs Despite the fact …
NEWS: Universal Studios Backlot Reopens
On June 1, 2008 Universal Studios New York St. backlot burned to the ground. Two years later it has now been reopened (as of yesterday) with crews shooting there again starting July …
TV SETS: The Good Wife
I have fallen in love with the sets of ‘The Good Wife’ as many, many of you have. To read up about the beautiful sets by Production Designer Stephen Hendrickson and Set …
The Case of the Bad Production Designer
This 10 minute comedic short film played at the ADG (Art Directors Guild) Awards in February of this year and surfaced online in a shorter format that was widely circulated. I hadn’t …
How the Film Industry Works
The Updated version of the Movie Swing diagram The original Movie Swing drawing. This is from Little Joe’s studio in New Orleans. It is in bad shape, because it went through Hurricane …
DESIGN TALKS: Where the Wild Things Are
Now with the DVD alive and kicking I find myself more and more in love with the design of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’. The DVD’s special features, or lack thereof, leave …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Waiting on Art
“A production is only as fast as its slowest department, and the last thing you want is for your department to be slow.” -Lloyd Ahern, ASC I loathe hearing “Waiting on art” …
How to Judge Best Art Direction
EDIT: The video discussed is no longer available so it has been replaced with a similar video. 05/15/17 Production Designer, Jim Bissell, explains with great insight what makes great production design and …
DESIGN TALKS: Ralph Eggleston
STORYTELLING IS KEY I stumbled upon these videos of this seminar with Ralph Eggleston, Production Designer and Art Director at Pixar. They are from the Fredrikstad Animation Festival 2009 in Norway which …
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Fear
Today’s Hump Day Quote Day theme is Fear. You can check out the last theme, Responsibility, here. The next quote theme will be Ideas. Definition of Fear: 1. – a. A feeling …