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The Barbie official trailer was released today and gives many more clues as to the plot of the film with fantastic glimpses of the epic sets created by Production Designer Sarah Greenwood and Set Decorator Katie Spencer.
In this Production Design Masterclass Production Designer David Hackl interviews Production Designer Jeremy Hindle about his work and various processes on Top Gun Maverick and Severance, among many more.
M&S Schmalberg is the last factory handcrafting custom fabric flowers in New York’s historic garment district.
Check out the full list of nominees for the 2023 ADG Awards celebrating excellence in production design presented by the Art Directors Guild.
Take a look at these diagrams detailing the work of the motion picture art director from 1940 and 1994.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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” …
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 …
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 …
