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The BBC had to bail out my Father arrested as a potential communist spy for sketching a police box for the original Tardis

Later the BBC almost arrested me for loosing control of a Dalek in the scene dock. Daleks have no brakes. A remarkable oversight for an alien wishing to take over the world

Art DirectorBudgetVisualsPlans

Logistics

PropsBuyerGreensmanAnimal wrangler

Scenic artistModel makerSFX

Construction Manager

CarpenterMinimum 5 years experience on major films

PainterMarbling,Wood graining,Aging

RiggerScaffolding

Stage HandKeeping the stage organised

PlastererMouldingsTextures

Sculpter

Director

Creative

Producer

Fiscal and deadlines

Director of Photography

Location Manager

Shepperton Studios

H Stage

Render Farm

The Old HouseCreche

A Stage

Pinewood Studios

Pinewood Studios, D Stage

Makeup BlocksGreen rooms

Production Offices

Workshops Props

Rainmaker – projection geometry composite for Da Vinci Code

C Stage SheppertonSaint Sulpice ParisProjection stills - Canon EOS 1DS MK2.

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Turkish Delight, Prelight, 'A' Stage SheppertonShowing the painted cyc, groundrows, gauze, middle and foreground elements. Each is lite separately. The arc lamps each use over 200 amps.3 phase power is separated into the grid, ground rows and arc lights.150 x 50 meters of painted cyc – 10 days design and build

Lighting for mid day and dawn

Gauzes allow great flexibility of lighting

By ten the following day all this was cleared out ready for the next one.

Two gauzes used in this effort

BrazilAn example of utilising a mirror in a model set

The figure is some 15cm across with the painted cyc 25 meters wide. The clouds are made from kapoc polyester filler

Brazil – ext

8 by 20 meter backdrop of New York for a Dutch TVCTwo scenic artists over 3 days

Sets utilise backdrops, ground rows and foreground elementsFirst the backdrops

TVC backdrop, Elstree

One artist for three daysNote painted tree and it's shadow on the wall

'D'' Stage Pinewood ‘The Wall’

3 meter high skyscraper ground rows being flown inSetting up the horizon line is important along with moving from a single VP to double VPs for a more natural look

Scenic art is often combined with 3D

Note real book against his nose

‘H’ Stage Shepperton Studios

Build and prelight for Wimpy tvc

Profits from this job bought our first studio – way back in 1976

The Meaning of LifeHero building in full size, intermediate and miniature versions

The Meaning of Life“Crimson Pearl

Assurance”

'City of High Finance'

5 meter high perspex buildings

Time Bandits

Fortress of Ultimate Darkness

Miniature designed for a 9.8mm lens

Time Bandits Fortress of Ultimate Darkness

The Gate House - Miniature and intermediate model

Top view of Intermediate model

Final composite with Miniature as backplate with the Invisible

Barrier rotoscoped in with an optical step printer.

Napoleonic Traveling Theater for Time Bandits

We made this fully practical so it could be filmed front and back

‘Alien’ followed ‘2001’ and the just released ‘Star Wars’

Essentially about this . . . .

. . . . .bumping off these actors

Ronald Shussett's original visual for Nostromo's 'Bridge'

Original look for Nostromo interior

Evolving to the claustrophobic

. . . and aged We used f.e.v's to provide the oily translucent lookNote mirror and studio wall

'C' Stage Shepperton‘Nostromo’ Interior

‘C’ and ‘D’ Stage, Nostromo Interiors

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'Shussett‘ visual for LV246 ext , ‘H’ Stage

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Gieger visual for LV246 ext

H stage LV246

Note matte flag

Nostromo ‘leg’

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H stage, build LV246

H stage.

Note painted backdrop on cyc

Gieger at work with his favourite double action airbrush

Same subject redone to accommodate practical details

Glass painting in final shot

A stage int. based on previous visual

The completed ‘Jockey’ finished in pearlescents and f.e.v.s

John Hurt catwalking in his off the shoulder number

Gieger with one of his babies

Älien stills courtesy of 20th Century Fox

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