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The Case of the Bad Production Designer

At the start of the Art Directors Guild awards, this short film by Cindy Peters titled The Case of the Bad Production Designer debuted:

Each year the ADG celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of Production Designers and Art Directors in film and television at this prestigious event. Awards are given for Excellence […]

Robert Rodriguez on Hitchcock

Robert Rodriguez talks about his favorite scene from the Alfred Hitchcock film “Spellbound”. Part of the 1999 BBC2 Hitchcock Season.
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DIY: Prop Rocket Launcher

Seth Shaw from Indymogul shows you how to build this DIY prop rocket launcher for cheap.
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Apocalypse How - Martin Laing discusses production paintings for Terminator 4

Production Designer Martin Laing sits down with the New York Times and discusses his paintings for Terminator in this article and it’s corresponding interactive Flash feature (link at the bottom on the article).
…To sketch out the details of the landscape and solidify the film’s look, McG hired the production designer […]

Samurai’s: DIY Science Fiction Props

By IQ Member: 8thSamurai
Greetings, Grasshoppers! The Samurai was meditating on one of the most overlooked aspects of the low/no budget short film world – props! Perusing the already available information revealed a plethora of discussions and how to videos about horror and blood effects – which is great, but where […]

The Handmade Tale: Coraline’s Inventive DIY Effects

Wired has a nice little article on the DIY effects used in the making of Coraline. You may want to also check out a longer interview at shocktillyoudrop.com.

…Like most Hollywood kid flicks, the big-screen adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline boasts a big star (the voice of Dakota Fanning), an […]

How to Be a Production Designer

Indie Production Designer Erin Muldoon Stetson informs readers of the job — from the first artistic visualizations to the imaginative use of color and composition in each scene helping to create the overall look and emotion of a film.
…Whether replicating every last detail of the ocean liner in “Titanic”; bringing […]

Sweeney Todd Production Design

Dante Ferretti, the legendary production designer superb realization of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
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Interviewing Syd Mead

Boing Boing Gadgets editor Joel Johnson meets with his hero, futurist and artist Syd Mead, to discuss the evolution of conceptual design.
Mead is a former designer for Ford Motor Company and US Steel. His designs have appeared in many movies, including Aliens, Tron, and Blade Runner.