https://www.markhofeling.com/1990-99/address-unknown daily 0.75 2014-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615696356-4FFN7L5QDB8MVV80H6D1/Unknown001x.jpg Address Unknown Abandoned mine shaft set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615696356-4FFN7L5QDB8MVV80H6D1/Unknown001x.jpg Address Unknown Abandoned mine shaft set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615722068-KZIR1T9W3046L33VGGUM/Unknown002x.jpg Address Unknown A detail of the abandoned mine shaft stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701598-U3CYAM2EKEE8C5622RNH/unknown_2.jpg Address Unknown https://www.markhofeling.com/sketch-book daily 0.75 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663612730414-UX9IPGT896ZCW4999KPV/IMG_1081.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 features the arrival of aliens into the fragile peace of Seabrook, where humans have finally learned to live in harmony with their zombie and werewolf neighbors. This is my fist sketch of the control room on the alien Mothership (voiced by RuPaul Charles). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663612730414-UX9IPGT896ZCW4999KPV/IMG_1081.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 features the arrival of aliens into the fragile peace of Seabrook, where humans have finally learned to live in harmony with their zombie and werewolf neighbors. This is my fist sketch of the control room on the alien Mothership (voiced by RuPaul Charles). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831701930-JDJ14GKX3CBNAE1JK6N2/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-42-44.jpg SKETCH BOOK Descendants: The Rise of Red begins with a big, splashy musical sequence that involves a chase, several stunts, soldiers, and vandalism, as well as song and dance. As part of the soldiers chasing our hero Red around Wonderland, I designed several sections of rooftops that could be reconfigured to create a varied stunt landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831712937-93R566O11U10DC5C0WIP/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-41-50.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is a first draft of the modular, comically compact worker's houses with their rooftop landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831684168-Q815B47IAU0IZG7SU995/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-14-28.jpg SKETCH BOOK When one begins to break down 4+ minutes of song, it quickly becomes clear that is a vast amount of time in which to stage a high-speed pursuit and game of cat and mouse, requiring many set pieces, despite all the VFX help in the world. This is one such set piece that we ended up nt building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831687841-ISB9XXDEYBGET08YMJI6/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-17-10.jpg SKETCH BOOK This set piece was intended to get Red out of the exterior scene after being rescued by the Mad Hatter's mechanical claw. We ended up using a different piece of scenery for this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831678431-01XNXBGWNX0TRSUB4JNN/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-43-37.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another idea abandoned for cost and time would have allowed the cast member to easily climb a "vertical" tower by making a tiltable climbing section and employing some simple camera tricks as well as VFX set extension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831685814-IV1WEHTSC6FI9V2771QG/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-16-14.jpg SKETCH BOOK The end of Red's wild chase sequence ends with her impossibly cornered, only to be saved by a Deus Ex Machina in the form of Mad Hatter's mechanical claw. This is my preliminary sketch of how the claw would work to rescue her then disappear back into it's nesting place before the soldiers became any the wiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831680962-YFVGZZZZLN3XPDORYI70/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-12-33.jpg SKETCH BOOK The Mad Hatter, known in Descendants: The Rise of Red as Maddox Hatter, controls his massive, retractable claw via a mechanical puppeting mechanism in his laboratory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831695648-GY8432BQX5SVOL27K6TW/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-10-38.jpg SKETCH BOOK The storyboards called for Red to escape capture by flinging herself away from the soldiers with a catapult. We built a version of this one, but the sequence was cut for time and overall cost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831678012-J514EV6LQNF4CBEZLKNI/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-44-33.jpg SKETCH BOOK The royal plaza below the Queen of Heart's castle is decorated with several pieces of topiary fashioned into her iconic heart shapes. We built a version of this one for Red to conceal herself from the soldiers in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831693675-Q616AWIPD5F7MYLBP1CY/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-18-59.jpg SKETCH BOOK These topiary arch hedges were covered with foliage and roses, which Red brutally pruned in her act of rebellion against her overbearing mother, The Queen of Hearts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831710927-R2QGEO9KWNBOVIJQ42JS/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-39-05.jpg SKETCH BOOK For another sequence in the film, the original script had a sequence where Maddox Hatter came to the rescue yet again, but this time with some sort of magnetic device. This was my idea for his magnetic weapon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831709785-RAT6ZMKP3CC4YBFCLF99/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-40-58.jpg SKETCH BOOK Every queen must have a throne, so I designed this one for the Queen of Hearts. It serves not only as her literal seat of power but also as a sedan chair, carrying her out into the plaza to view the vandalism Red committed the prior night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831692099-588KRYFD9G1ESCFTRQCD/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-20-49.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is my preliminary sketch for Uliana's Lair. The niece of the powerful Sea Witch Ursula, Uliana's Lair needed to reflect the sort of place her family would feel comfortable in. So I thought this rotting, slimy combination of some kind of prehistoric whale and a spooky, deep-sea angler fish fit the bill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831714125-2VIBNLH237EIDRN3A0NA/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-34-15.jpg SKETCH BOOK To lord over her villainous minions, Uliana would naturally need a stage. So we made this collage of giant coral and mystery sea life to elevate her above her lessers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831707829-BF97LDVA5TYK5B9CD79T/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-24-33.jpg SKETCH BOOK And just like the Queen of Hearts, I wanted to give Uliana a throne. The following drawings demonstrate how I proposed it self-assembled then rose out of the coral platform to carry her up to reach the final note of her song. We abandoned the idea because there ended up being no need for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831704620-U4Z6NUHAZFAETRLY1I4Q/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-25-32.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831698852-8XV5GK4POUUS63XQJXVH/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-26-27.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831689478-VKWBC82ONG36Q4DW3YR8/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-23-38.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831706259-UO1WICLW0WXHO9LQMTWO/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-28-11.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831696821-8RJ5WRQZ6XL0629T2BON/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-29-05.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831682669-KN75ZZH6ZAHAKMBYI7Q9/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-18-06.jpg SKETCH BOOK My first draft of the Troublemaker's Cookbook, a dangerously enchanted artifact kept securely in Merlin's office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831699973-8CMMII0K3A799D938I91/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-19-58.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the weird, slimy pods we made for Merlin's advanced botany class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831845-A11EO4FDWH8C7WOX92RQ/F923D784-4364-4E3A-93D6-14700C844D7D_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 features the arrival of aliens into the fragile peace of Seabrook, where humans have finally learned to live in harmony with their zombie and werewolf neighbors. This is my fist sketch of the control room on the alien Mothership (voiced by RuPaul Charles). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617233846-TVS98H69KRTCJM26TT48/IMG_1991-1.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here you can see how the finished product came out of that initial sketch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825070-FAOJQLGEGRIPNXD5Y6KQ/7C2243F3-4880-4813-9D4A-7638313F0014_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK I wanted to give our unique aliens and unique technology, something nobody has yet seen in this oversaturated entertainment market with countless space/sci-fi shows available to stream. So I came up with this sphere and socket system, where translucent “data spheres” are moved around a receiving board with multiple sockets in a 3-zone control board. Each socket has a tiny switch that activates an LED to illuminate the spheres when they are inserted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831076-WXEFL3PO40GS4O0LUMY7/DDE016F5-CAA1-486C-9A06-6781B503ACBC_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The control board also had to act as an interface for an ad hoc jumper cable system for when the Mothership is losing power in the final scenes. This drawing shows how a removable panel allowed for that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617232485-KID0KGCMJ3TE7AIUQ9YQ/IMG_1936-1.jpg SKETCH BOOK In this photo both the sphere and socket control system and the internal information/energy system for the jumper cable rescue can be seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831090-6IAV3OOHCF8DJ7PSC79X/EB58F1C5-D93B-422B-BD85-2822F65B3F8E_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The most important institution in the very strange town of Seabrook is the Seabrook high school cheer squad, which is hosting the biggest competition in the cheer universe, the Seabrook National Cheer Championship. The alien invaders have concluded the missing data they require is hidden in the cheer trophy, and therefore set out to win the competition. This sketch is of the “trophy halo”. This surprisingly complicated set piece had two, counter-rotating rings of faceted, metallic cheer icons, and was lowered at the end of the competition so the trophy could be awarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617232804-1EYDQAF5B2C90OT06KUR/IMG_1584-1.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the completed trophy halo, complete with the much-prized cheer trophy in the center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823889-GBBEOBXSVNR6Q6LL1ANH/2EE21AB1-C3A7-4723-9D4B-F3AFDCD9296B_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Now that the jittery humans of Seabrook have fully embraced their zombie neighbors, the hottest spot in town for the popular kids is Zita’s Trash Fired Pizza, a Zombietown institution. Nightmarish ingredients thrown onto dough are then thrown onto/into improvised, trash-incinerating “pizza ovens” until the pies are burnt just-so, then served to the eager teens. Here are some preliminary trash ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436826599-JEBZBDNYDR65IU2E2HJP/756C3459-26ED-48F6-B090-54015EC306A1_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Another set of Zombie-style pizza ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436827746-S389K9A3ZI3Q39P7GYB8/858BF532-D5DE-4560-9BDD-BB532ADE39EC_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK This sketch from which hand-painted signs were produced is just a sampling of the ingredients a patron of Zita’s Tash Fired Pizza could pick from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436824777-YXLD2UFW0D7122KPKSO4/6FFEABCF-97E6-4475-8F26-ED1E559292B8_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The main protagonist in the Z-O-M-B-I-E-S trilogy is Zed Necrodopolis (Milo Manheim). He has helped integrated the zombies back into the larger society, helped the werewolves integrate, and is hoping to become the first zombie ever to go to college. Needless to say, everybody, especially from Zombietown is pulling for him. This sketch is a sampling of the zombie-style (made of trash), bilingual signs that his neighbors and friends have made for moral support before his interview with the college recruiter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825894-XR68Z6GHKQI6Y52P3645/40ACC0A7-2A3F-43FF-9814-6713C71C4AE7_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Under Wraps 2 is a Halloween caper movie that center’s around 2 Egyptian mummies that were a couple in life and wish to remain so in death. An intrepid group of young friends tries to make it happen for them, and antics ensue. This is an object found in one of the mummies tombs and id on display with him in a museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436828700-IFC0KQTGZDVOTGULQBG9/8059313C-C46E-4E03-BEAF-E7CFC1E2C7A9_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK This is a crate/tomb that the evil mummy Sobek (T.J. Storm) has prepared for himself and Rose (Ryrla McIntosh), the mummy he is trying to kidnap away from her true love, buried deep in the storage of the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436829545-Q95YKNL52KH3HM9QHYCY/CE474394-1990-405A-AE7E-AEBC1749D664_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Under Wraps 2 opens in a spooky corn maze. All of the cast in the scene were minors, so shooting a real night exterior scene is nearly impossible. I had to build a corn maze on stage. We had a very modest budget, and corn season was long over, so we had to rely on what limited amount of very expensive silk corn we could rent. So this is how I made a whole “maze” out of about 900 pieces of rented corn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1666139774611-9KLLMU0E00YZWBYCICZ1/IMG_2822.jpg SKETCH BOOK We were able to make a repeatable combination of intersections exactly as I sketched with a measly 900 corn stalks. With the proper application of darkness and smoke, it worked perfectly as an exterior cornfield at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436824363-5WMQPPMA8MWALR08ZLFQ/04A035F7-4C31-4E7E-B919-2276251A18CB_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK A Halloween-themed wedding and wedding “Shocktail” party are one of the inciting subplots of the movie. This is one of the pieces for the “Shocktail” party thrown by Amy (Sophia Hammons) whose two dads are getting married the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436826869-34XCXDQKM586T4XVO9TV/768D938F-2C10-4FCB-9E03-E7CFA3199273_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK There were also multiples of life-sized “cake-topper” decoration throughout the party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823260-3Y2VWIBF7C2A4YLP5B3H/1E15CEC2-80A7-4CD7-A17B-DBA1882A80CD_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The movie resolves in an action sequence in the museum storage facility where Sobek’s (T.J. Storm) evil mummies are vanquished by our heroes. This is one of several crash-gags that takes the bad guys out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436828384-C47RJWQUN1F5W2M1D4C1/6662A7C3-AA4A-44AF-9A4E-50FCF97DB796_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK As UW2 was steeped in Egyptian artifacts and culture, I had to design loads of ancient jewelry and accouterment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823416-KMTUKAAOCJAL2UTM5MGP/2E22A0DF-5D4A-4EDA-A8E0-E4E9EC2DF73A_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK With the bad guys dispatched, the movie culminates with the sweet, elegant “Golden Harvest” Hallowedding. Amy’s (Sophia Hammons) two dads tie the knot in a glowing, autumnal-themed wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436829105-8L0TVYM3LA17PABFZA94/B5528FF6-21F7-4FCE-99E3-D80C6FD9173E_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The gold and silver Halloweeding cake in the wedding scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436827894-8MNSX9OI8FPWEP59AXOI/5472D8A0-635A-43E3-A546-D9521D172BAE_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Another major story point of UW2 is a visit to the famed, annual event in the fictional home of Halloween, Rockport, or for the season, “Shockport”. I pitched the idea that the mythical, Headless Horseman-style folk character of Rockport is Ebineezer Eek, a demented, 19th-century farmer that became half-man, half-pumpkin in his frenzy to create the perfect Jack-o-Lantern. These are the posters I designed to advertise the event, including one of Ebeneezer himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825789-OP3E50RQO7OCYURVJ6O6/11BBF4FF-528E-4599-AD7E-07FB5B8F431F_1_201_a.jpeg SKETCH BOOK This is the entryway to the fun and spooky “Shockport Festival of Fright”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845532439-9FVXLHGA8YWXC01JP3Q6/MH_Illustration_Page_11x.jpg SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2, werewolves were added to the already tumultuous human/zombie culture clash of the first film. The werewolves were aware of both the humans and the zombies but had chosen to live at a safe remove from their noise and madness, paying attention to the rhythms of the lunar cycles as they always have. This initial sketch of their lair shows my proposition that the werewolves are an ancient, Druidic sort of culture of astronomers with a primitive but fantastical observatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603905446344-3KA8ULHSRFF1DFF8IYQ8/EPSON003.jpg SKETCH BOOK This more technical section-sketch of the lair shows the basic form and dimensions of the werewolves’ lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845535665-A3M2T5W4U4V3FHM4ZT4P/MH_Illustration_Page_18x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The roughly pounded, bronze moon disk is not only part of their ancient observatory but served as a paleolithic, spinning mirror ball during the musical sequences in the werewolf lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845535071-3WPF7YBMEW219NY9ZPJY/MH_Illustration_Page_14x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Because of the werewolves’ close connection to the cycles of nature, we detailed their world with fully natural elements, in contrast to the modern and chaotic worlds of both the zombies and humans. This sketch shows crystal lighting elements in their main lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845538868-28CGB7WL9I6YGMC60R8E/zombies-root+railing.jpg SKETCH BOOK We meant to leave this rough, neolithic, stone slab stairway bare, but the safety dept. insisted it needed to have a railing. I came up with this tangle of vines that hid welded steel hoops to preserve the fully organic look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845533911-CQBMWJYJI5YHYACCCXW0/MH_Illustration_Page_12x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S and Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 focus on the relationship between humans and “monsters” who the panicked humans struggle to understand. The monsters in Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 are werewolves, who really have no interest at all in either human or zombie affairs until our narrative pulls them in. More than any other classic monster, werewolves are bound to the cycles of the earth and moon. So part of my design for their ancient observatory was this primitive, telescopic kind of astrolabe in the oculus of their underground lair and these woven globes showing the phases of the moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845492595-MFRS44YP3NSNN1JW0O48/IMG_3529.jpg SKETCH BOOK This image of the finished set shows the culmination of the conceptual elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845498893-ID5M9Z5HDTBRPOTFJKE4/IMG_3627.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is the reverse shot of the finished set, showing the moon disk, the astrolabe, the moon globes, and an altar that rises out of the floor to receive the moonstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603847375835-R3YQH4YZA3WZJWVTY7BT/ancient-wereish.jpg SKETCH BOOK The script gave the werewolves a spoken language, and because I had to make their ancient culture and civilization visually detailed, I proposed the werewolves needed a written language as well. So I created these two versions of what we called Wereish, ancient, and modern. Their intense focus on the elements of both the earth and sky informs their alphabet. I also assigned each letter a folk meaning from perhaps a pre-written-language time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845518799-9EZ921E4YE78LHK2ZL59/EPSON005x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This sketch of the outer wall of the werewolves’ lair shows how we used the ancient Wereish glyphs on backlit “stone” slabs to detail their world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845522197-J44LYS8RTJYQE9A4OIHH/IMG_2910x.jpg SKETCH BOOK What draws the werewolves into the noisome world of the zombies and humans is their pursuit of their stolen Moonstone, the sacred object that gives them the power to control the balance between their human and animal selves. In a final scene, the werewolves, zombies, and humans must work together to lift it out of a destroyed, subterranean chamber. So I suggested this elliptical “wolf-tech” cage to provide grabbing space for the maximum number of actors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845510216-SRIBY7AXHRR35B23JWNA/IMG_3895.jpg SKETCH BOOK The final version of the Moonstone itself was a more classic, crystalline shape, but the “wolf-tech”, elliptical cage served the scene perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845536402-SDYYPZ15MR8J9L8CLRBD/z-alpha-bet.jpg SKETCH BOOK While the werewolves are an ancient and sophisticated culture that’s thousands of years old, the zombies are the result of an unfortunate industrial accident in the 1960s. Yet the script also gave them a spoken language, so I was determined to give them a written one as well. I derived the letters of the Zombie Alphabet from the folds of the human brain, the object they crave beyond all others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603904914533-KJZWJP2BYDKYG5N356GK/05_ZTOWN_SIGNS_Page_5x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The Zombies are bi-lingual, and their world reflects that. This sketch is for the movie theater marquee in the center of their former prison slum, Zombietown, showing both The Zombie and English languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845517344-326WFC0QRKIR41OWB6I0/IMG_4076.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the bi-lingual marquee in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845539633-MHQ2HZ4HPSPSHS9NMVL9/z-signage.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sampling of sketches for business signs on the shopping street in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603914644181-M197W4110AGJAI3YKGY5/IMG_3998.jpg SKETCH BOOK A shot of the shopping district in Zombietown with some of the signage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845528238-Q7DAU3NJEBF2L1PKV4Y2/itcamefromcometx.jpg SKETCH BOOK As monster-phobia is a recurring theme in both Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 1 and 2, I sketched these b-movie horror posters for the Zombietown movie theater to be displayed at different beats in the movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845527868-ABMPBGX1FWEX64YZSKHO/IMG_4074x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here’s a completed version by artist Christian England outside the completed set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845531146-U6083EGUV5FQNUCL6OIK/MH_Illustration_Page_09.jpg SKETCH BOOK The protagonist of Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 is Zed (Milo Manheim) conceives an elaborate “promposal” to ask his girlfriend Addison (Meg Donelly) to the “Prawn” (a little joke, the high school in our story is the Seabrook High Mighty Shrimp, thus the “Prawn”). I came up with this kooky, “Zombie-tech” method of unraveling signage made of found materials that are triggered via a series of funky mechanisms to fall as Addison passes them in the cheerleader’s bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845517656-IBOZDLHA0WX4Q0KDPIV2/EPSON002x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another sketch of Zed’s (Milo Manheim) elaborate “Zombie-tech” promposal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845525471-AD0YXK6M70U8D6PCJBBL/IMG_3456x.jpg SKETCH BOOK One of Zed’s (Milo Manheim) completed promposal pieces on set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603904915246-LOXJPHVL00MN6OEBPXXV/0040_001x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We wanted a very over-the-top vibe for Seabrook high school’s annual, shrimp-themed “Prawn”. So we went for it. Here’s a sketch for the entry and the photo spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845510295-3JLB7JNXAY269JGZ0CKA/IMG_3817.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here’s a photo of the nearly completed photo spot, with some of our balloon-sculpture jellyfish in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845530354-D2C8Z1DZQXUP03GEBJS3/MH_Illustration_Page_06x.jpg SKETCH BOOK And of course, presiding over all the revelry of the “Prawn” is the towering, Poseidon-like Mighty Shrimp himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171862796-7S4MEWWMD77KLGZ6DKZM/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_01.jpg SKETCH BOOK To set the stage in the first Z-O-M-B-I-E-S film, we needed an opening sequence to deliver a lot of information about the state of our "world". I came up with this motion-controlled, deconstructed miniature sequence to explain it all in under 90 seconds. This is the map of the pieces and camera moves. Unfortunately, we didn't have the time in the shooting schedule to pull off what would have been this really fun opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171867348-KGMSWWZV5U95WPPT153Q/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_02.jpg SKETCH BOOK The first of our very conscious, full-scale dioramas shows a typical 1950s living room, where a TV plays back a crummy old B zombie movie. The camera pushes past the room to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845514462-8J4GDBZ2KJAS5FOYGP6T/IMG_3936.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed Mighty Shrimp waiting to greet the guests arriving at the “Prawn” at Seabrook high. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171867888-C2PVLIZE4IOLWAJB4K3E/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_03.jpg SKETCH BOOK ... a train-set-sized model of the sleepy seaside town of Seabrook, with its quiet neighborhoods and the city's pride and joy, the experimental energy plant, at its center. The camera pushes past that to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171869819-J9BBZZUANGRV2N8I72KJ/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_04.jpg SKETCH BOOK ... a control station floating in the void of the studio, illuminated by a lighting cue as the camera approaches. A lime cola tips on a cue, and the control board starts blinking red! Note the "days without and accident" poster hung above the control board. The camera pulls back out to the train-set city to show the energy plant explode with a cheap smoke bomb and glow green, then camera travels to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171872116-KPSGYB0HTVOC6DCWGRAS/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_05.jpg SKETCH BOOK ... a diorama of old time footbal hero Z, who would become the first zombie. A lighting cue lights up the scene as the old, 1960s vibrating metal football toy jiggles to life. Camera moves on to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171874079-9C99DIJ12J2AOGJPWLKH/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_06.jpg SKETCH BOOK ... a new diorama demonstrating how all the coincidences have led up to a real-life zombie crisis caused by the explosion of the strange energy source at the plant. Camera then moves to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171863477-9CU8FNC7B10LOBD1R8K6/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_07.jpg SKETCH BOOK ... a miniature idyllic, Seabrook neighborhood, suddenly divided by a wall that rises out of a slot in the "ground". Lighting cues sell the blight of the zombie side and the white picket fence perfection of the human side. Camera the moves to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171864455-A8S3J9V5HKTFVA2DTYTS/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_08.jpg SKETCH BOOK A full-scale chain link fence illuminated by swing search lights and the red and blue of police lights, with hateful signage telling the zombies to keep out. I had designed a few other stops of the camera as well, all of which would have led directly to our zombie actors as they started another day in their weird Apartheid. I still regret we weren't able to pull this off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916105370-4FPVR5BSHA4WKLDO08UC/EPSON029x.jpg SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S, zombies living in segregated Zombietown live a subsistence life. There are no public services including electricity or water. But one little zombie flower struggles to make it, just like the zombie underclass. This is my design sketch/storyboard for the story-beats of our silent little hero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916057307-AH4DFTAIEHNVWO4VBJU2/Eliza%27s+Laptop+X.jpg SKETCH BOOK The zombies in Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S make do with what little they have. The Brilliant Eliza (Kylee Russell) has cobbled together mid-20th-century dead-tech to make a functional, modern laptop. This is my drawing for that prop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568939692576-BN7ND14IY3JFGY5LSQBC/IMG_0651.jpeg SKETCH BOOK A photo of Eliza’s (Kylee Russell) finished dead-tech laptop for Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916055435-UMBF51ZKNBGJTZODMHDS/EPSON080x.jpg SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 3, the villains imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost have vandalized their end of a ruined bridge to the mainland to send a signal to their captors across the bay. This sketch showed my paint department my concept for how to vandalize that set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924542779-95YOAUN99T6FL56US39M/IMG_0777.jpg SKETCH BOOK A panoramic shot of the graffitied bridge plaza on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916045282-O1FJ889HXGCD3BDP35RA/Hades+Locking+gate+X.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is my preliminary sketch for the entrance to mighty Hades underground lair on the Isle of the Lost in Descendants 3. The imprisoned Greek god wishes to be left very much alone, so I wanted his ratty gate to reflect that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924251604-39DF9NHV0J7JUAW9FCCY/IMG_0344.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the completed, sculpted foam and steel gate. Note one eye is a toilet seat and one is an old tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916053931-76WJWBDODZWBIUQ08I01/EPSON075x.jpg SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 3, Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog is also a captive on the Isle of the Lost. Rather than choosing seclusion like Hades, he has instead built himself an impressive, underground arcade. This layered, ratty, carnival-style mask is the entrance to his arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916054931-BDWIE6D71BK897TGDIJU/EPSON077x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another sketch of the mask/entrance in Dr. Facilier’s arcade on the Isle of the Lost. The 3/4 view shows cast access as well as how the flat layers stack up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924301313-4YZETSRYJK2TVPF5W122/IMG_0306.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed mask/entrance to Dr. Facilier’s arcade on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916051522-6N1A81DR6WUAOE2P3A78/EPSON069x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We had decided in the first Descendants movie that nothing new had come to the Alcatraz-like Isle of the Lost since 1979. So the crafty Dr. Facilier had to have made all his coin-operated amusements from the pre-digital refuse he had access to. All his arcade games are totally analog. And because the imprisoned population of the Isle had few practical skills before their capture, things are also silly and a little nonsensical, like his Voodoo blow-dart game and his foosball/billiard-combo table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924280496-9WH72UKO5PBQKND4SO4J/IMG_0322.jpg SKETCH BOOK And here’s the Voodoo game aged and ready to go on set In Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916052350-IL4210MSRD10VM800BUI/EPSON071x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We made more than a dozen coin-op arcade games for Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. The Robin Hood game on the left was sadly not one of them, but the Monster Madness game on the right was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924290690-0M1ZZB9M01TTE9FQXK4L/IMG_0313.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the finished Monster Madness game in Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade, complete with bad, 1970’s style arcade stencil graphics and battling monster puppets in a cheaply built cityscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916050653-BYLN01CQY7J3CISF7Y2G/EPSON068x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We also built these games, Sea Beast Feast and Voodoo coin toss game in Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916048814-9D56R3QUZLDZ6KERGYRM/EPSON066x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We also built the Castle Smasher catapult game and the Pickpocket Game (not pictured) in Dr’ Facilier’s Voodoo arcade on the Isle of the Lost in Disney’s Descendants 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568944881904-F0C9RZVG6T88MEQUZ37O/IMG_0321.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The Castle Smasher arcade game lets the prisoners on the Isle of the Lost imagine they’re attacking some arrogant prince’s castle across the bay in Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916047715-LGT9M9INRJPA9G7WNPNL/EPSON062x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of various signs for Dr. Faciler’s Voodoo arcade on the Isle of the Lost for Disney’s Descendants 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916046798-W17RGNDQR18HE606V8QD/EPSON056x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Dr’ Facilier, though imprisoned, was once a mighty Voodoo practitioner from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. He keeps a prized corner of his Voodoo arcade, hidden on the Isle of the Lost for his own tarot/fortune-telling booth. This is my sketch for that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916053177-QV390S5SCG4ZB8GL5LPA/EPSON064x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is my sketch for the candle-lit sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916045195-RDQVU6V9A4HEYIQ4BZK4/EPSON063x.jpg SKETCH BOOK I drew these little signs for the back curtain of Dr. Facilier’s fortune-telling booth in his Voodoo arcade to entice any passer-by to pay the Dr. to look into their future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924307478-MT4TAQX2F9V42XWYJ2TJ/IMG_0295.jpg SKETCH BOOK And here’s the finished fortune-telling booth on set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245367679-SQH58TII357ARG7MJRQP/EPSON129.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is the first drawing in a deck of concept sketches I did for the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City. This was a blue-sky proposal for the exterior of the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245369701-SMAK4V37SINE6SY7MPEC/EPSON127.jpg SKETCH BOOK This was a proposed "control tower" where young visitors could test their paper/model planes for distance. This was never built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245369473-G6H96ISZH4NQ53P5C8DK/EPSON128.jpg SKETCH BOOK This was a proposal for an entry tunnel made of 747 engine cowlings. Unfortunately, the museum did not own the exterior space required for this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245367608-U2Y7XO6JYSYR3KI1GF2I/EPSON130.jpg SKETCH BOOK In the interior entry to the exhibit, I wanted to strike a spiritual note. The Tunnel of Dreams represents in roughly chronological order the human dream of flying, from the first stone carvings all the way to the New Horizons probe. the tunnel focuses down on a sacred moment in the dream of flight, an American living room in July 1969, where two children watch the moon landing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245356800-V4OE7PHKL7E4OY1310ZJ/IMG_0870.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the finished Tunnel of Dreams, with almost 200 original illustrations of flying things real and imagined, from the first Sumerian winged gods, through DaVinci, to the Space Race and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245364471-KYVY7NHRJSIPTZY6VCH6/EPSON132.jpg SKETCH BOOK The technical aspect of the exhibit focused on the three main kinds of flight, aerodynamic, ballistic, and buoyant. So I designed a thematic kiosk for each idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245363854-6IT79SP2BWV01GZJTM17/EPSON133.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the concept for buoyant flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245354189-3ICTONBC577P7MI75TZI/IMG_0885.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is the finished kiosk for ballistic flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481473643-KG47XLRWIZXSIBQCZA2L/EPSON024-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK This sketch shows an abandoned idea for boxes inset into the kiosks that would use a 2-1/2 dimensional object (like Icarus or a V2 rocket) in front of a screen with a moving sky video loop to add a sense of movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481472856-DQUCF338FGLLAJGFF948/EPSON020-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is an abandoned idea for the Flight exhibition where we would create an “exploded” and mechanically animated jet engine to show how they work, complete with neon light to indicate airflow and temperature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481476594-X4Z5HQ0NXODF1CAPT5I9/EPSON023-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another abandoned concept for Flight (there were many) was an immersive “night sky” dome theater where visitors would lay on a slowly rotating “grass” hill and gaze at the star show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245365504-QXZRLPO1V58BRHB0Y3I6/EPSON131.jpg SKETCH BOOK Hands-on, interactive experience for young visitors was a critical mission for the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo. A flight simulator company was offering hardware and software as a donation. My task was to provide the cockpits and UI. Aside from the cost of creating realistic fighter plane cockpits, I was concerned that would create too individual and experience, making full participation by large school groups too exclusive and creating what I call "engines of disappointment". So this sketch shows my solution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245353579-PSFBU0KE0NXDY2KB7BYL/IMG_7457.jpg SKETCH BOOK We made two of these flight simulators. I feel that the "cool" factor is still there, but the open design allows for much greater participation and group fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481478793-CPH2D3R0ADEHCC3XC4NU/EPSON026.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a floorplan for the abandoned “egg” concept for a proposed “future of flight” section of the exhibit. It was meant to be a control room for a spacecraft in the distant future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481481643-AMRY7A4IT14VTZ2W70FZ/EPSON018-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK Preliminary wall construction concept for the “egg” in the Future of Flight section of the Flight exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481478821-ZF222G3R37TV3JTXXOUP/EPSON028.jpeg SKETCH BOOK My idea was to have one section of the curved wall sculpted, then cast that, make 4 positive pieces out of semi-translucent, white fiberglass. Because the wall sections are identical right-side-up or upside-down, we could then make a symmetrical, ovoid room, and create a futuristic control room vibe with led elements glowing through the wall. A screen outside the upper skylight would project a loop of the earth passing below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481476347-YBICMWNS0ROJDHKGZNE3/EPSON025-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK One of several abandoned concepts for the entrance to the Flight exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245361667-N056BM2U6WW8COXVD5F9/EPSON135.jpg SKETCH BOOK Part of the mission of the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo was to connect interested young visitors to further information and possible careers in flight. I was allergic to the idea of a dusty old pamphlet rack as a final note to our thrilling exhibit, so I came up with this kiosk concept for connecting visitors with further opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566592257-NMW86BN4JAJXM0VRF7LC/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.10.52+PM.jpeg SKETCH BOOK As a result of the FLIGHT exhibition, we were approached by an Air Force base museum looking to revamp several display areas in its huge exhibit space. These are some images I made so they could use them to pursue funding. This is for their early warning radar exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566591429-TTSM3N3BTGO5FE4DIKMO/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.10.37+PM.jpeg SKETCH BOOK Here is an interior view of the early warning radar exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566589723-ZC0ZWCGV22CBG309CP47/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.09.39+PM.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The Air Force base is in possession of a full Minuteman missile silo/launch facility. I proposed we rebuild a 3 walled launch control room in exacting detail, down to the carpet. Here is my sketch of that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566592963-KS6WEYAN0RGZKQ5JA123/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.11.49+PM.jpeg SKETCH BOOK As part of telling the story of 20th-century nuclear stand-off madness to a new generation of museum visitors, I wanted to help the museum demonstrate the expense and trouble both sides of the conflict went to secure their weapons and enough provisions to “survive” a full conflict. So making a semi-deconstructed silo bunker with thick layers of “reinforced concrete” was a must. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566590789-VU0GF0D1GNHTN5QQI7CU/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.09.55+PM.jpeg SKETCH BOOK The Air Force base reconditions almost all landing gear in the military air-fleet. It’s an interesting assignment, but asset-wise it was mostly just a pile of parts. So I proposed a sort of shrine, organizing the pieces into a more harmonious whole and creating a well-produce3d film-clip of the technicians at work to solemnize what could otherwise be an uninteresting collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702965566443-LRPFVRJB9HJB2GB03DOF/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_01.jpg SKETCH BOOK I was approached by a children’s museum to conceive of a life science exhibit. While they didn’t fully have an idea about the content of the show, they did have a name picked out. This is my first sketch of what could become a main title graphic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948827510-KEFIN0AT2DBL9F7VS3RK/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_02.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is the main gallery for the proposed life science exhibit. This is a kind of combination of Michelangelo’s David and DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man, except my Renaissance figure is made of machine parts that are roughly equivalent to the function of different organs and body systems. He was meant to have moving parts and lighted sections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948831459-AY35APH4HN4V9P05KMVS/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_07.jpg SKETCH BOOK The proposed life science exhibit was made up of different rooms illustrating the various qualifications generally considered to decide if something is indeed alive. Here is the metabolism exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948829221-YUJFK96KKRWIP6Q7R5P7/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_04.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is the adaptation exhibit space in the proposed life science exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948828697-J73NGW5CDHX8BLMYSVBB/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_03.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is the cognition room in the proposed life science exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948832227-ZEITROYA9N35HRLIJDUZ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_08.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is one of several proposals I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. At one point they had an emphasis on hands-on art and media workspaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948832823-97KTUFADAZM2DZ3NHP9S/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_09.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a film/video animation workspace I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948834921-F14KXN678TX6XORBXV4N/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_10.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a film/video editing workspace I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948835370-YP5B8DTIR6KFLZBVREX8/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_11.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another view of how the film/video editing space would lay out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481488595-SDP59R0MK8TMSDBOCO5V/EPSON002.jpeg SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 2, Uma (China McClain) works in the briney fish and chips shop owned by her overbearing mother, Ursula the Sea Witch. Our first concept was to set it in a tidal cave that floods every day at high tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481483400-2MKZH68O8NKOQ77H62U3/EPSON003-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK Caves, real or on stage are notoriously difficult to shoot in. So I came up with a more innovative design that would allow for a dynamic lighting design and had natural breaks for moving pieces of the arched design in and out. Outside of the archways would be a black void and atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481470716-GZZV3C5UFY26OZ8N5PXO/P1050243-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK We built a 1/2 scale model to demonstrate the concept to the director and DP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481488196-V8X3DDP9AIS0KUG1VHH9/EPSON004.jpeg SKETCH BOOK At the end of the day, we decided the money the cave concept required would be put to better use elsewhere, so we decided to reconfigure it to a more traditional sort of setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916046863-2GBELAX70R5ER3KLE3NI/EPSON081x.jpg SKETCH BOOK We kept the idea of a damp, grim restaurant decorated with what comes in with the tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605553681459-00FDE5H8GI1MFIHQEFM2/A2_1.5.1-13.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here’s the exterior of the whimsical dump that is Ursula’s Fish & Chips. Note the salty waterline that marks high tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506792373-2M5SQ2HWXTPA4JHY7688/C083_I.7.2.jpg SKETCH BOOK Dancers performing in the completed fish and chips shop set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506832195-7PLA3NN31ULB0PNSXPCG/A138_1.6.1-13-1.jpg SKETCH BOOK Uma (China McClain) and her pirate crew in front of the ghastly menu board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481471525-9CR0QV7GIZYLD5MXTZS3/IMG_1290-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK Sometimes it makes sense to totally forgo preliminary sketches and instead explore complex, organic spaces in model form. That was the case with this huge rotting dock works and the wrecked pirate ship set for the Isle of the Lost in Disney’s Descendant 2. The construction dept worked directly from this 1/2 scale model to build the set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506878054-WJTI8GK20SS62P38J37G/decendants%2B2%2Bship%2Bdock.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here are the completed dock works and pirate ship set, ocean, and background provided by VFX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481484404-PFUO31ADB92G6GTB0L5D/EPSON005-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK This sketch is from one of many designs competitions my private design company (Creative Servies Bureau) worked on when time permitted. The challenge here was to create an extremely durable marker on top of a huge underground nuclear waste facility to let people up to 10,000 years into the future know what lies beneath. So we conceived of a huge, solid concrete monument with warnings in 12 languages embedded in it, as well as pictorial, non-lingual warnings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481481038-C2CTBCAOI60ECMZ91WB9/EPSON006-JW.jpg SKETCH BOOK The massive structure would essentially be indestructible and would allow access for investigation without making it easy. A 1,000-foot surround of huge square stones set on their corners would make mechanical intervention difficult, as would the narrow 5-foot passages between the huge 20x20 foot columns. The sloping and curved nature would make habitation by humans or birds difficult. Inside massive bronze plaques would bear verbal and non-verbal information about the dangers of the site. Alas, our busy schedule at the time prevented us from finishing this design project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245372172-UD83NFYTFO1IS5WHKN2C/EPSON120.jpg SKETCH BOOK For Disney's Descendants, we were tasked with inventing a field sport befitting the sons of princes and dragon slayers. We invented Tourney, a modern version of medieval combat games. The normally sleepy midfield is kept moving by "dragon fire" shot from these cannons - whose shape evokes a very famous Disney dragon that later makes an appearance in the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245356731-I6UUMORA64L2RFCL4PND/IMG_0493.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is one of the two finished "dragon fire" cannons that keep the game moving on the Tourney field in Disney's Descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245377422-8NQYYH6LC2CHE8XOUKG7/EPSON116.jpg SKETCH BOOK Disney's Descendants begins in the crowded slums of an Alcatraz-style prison island, the Isle of the Lost. Here every classic Disney villain and their henchman have been rounded up and place behind an enchanted barrier that leaves them powerless. So they eke out their miserable lives in poverty and rage. We jammed the open streets of the location with a thieves market of shacks and squalor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245377524-NAUSQ8RK4M4G87SBGHAZ/EPSON115.jpg SKETCH BOOK We also made all kinds of ramshackle bracing to make it look like the whole place was about to fall down. The idea is that every slat and board on the Isle is on at least its 5th use in life. We called all this garbage-shackery "Slumatecture". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245359058-R3JQH3OLWIXRI09LV2KU/IMG_0478.jpg SKETCH BOOK More rickety Slumatecture on the Isle of the Lost in Disney's Descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514361690-BITBY59SEJVOMEIFQ6MG/C9-%232x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Sketch of the snowboarder's Snack Shack for Cloud 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512790995-8LVF77TDC1OVQ5UN8ZT5/DSC05205x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The final, prefabbed shack built on top of a 12 deep pad of compacted snow, at 9,000 feet in elevation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512774374-KRSIEZG61JNY1HZ7XI53/Machine-Overall-1x.jpg SKETCH BOOK My initial sketch of the dastardly weather control machine for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512761355-Y5BWDUH4UOCPQJM0EPG7/Control-Unit-1x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the weather machine's control unit and proposed light for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512779977-M0MGHME43QFBSSRRAJ39/lights-1x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the final practical light fixtures for the weather control machine in Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512760876-A2UAKM4R6PZQU6YH2KFL/DSC03769-2x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The completed weather control machine is hidden inside an abandoned lighthouse set. The central machine spun in two different directions and had telescopic elements. VFX added Godzilla-style lightning bolts from the four surrounding "Atomic Piles" to the center of the whirling machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245375009-LIJNNI1Z4CT6468428E7/EPSON117.jpg SKETCH BOOK In Teen Beach Movie, the plot of the film within the film is a turf war between comedic gangs of bikers and surfers for control of Big Momma's snack shack. Here was my first sketch/draft of the Polynesian-inspired restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245379412-VQNQCZX4EOJSF6PJEVUZ/DSC03877x.jpg SKETCH BOOK And here is the finished Big Momma's Snack Shack on the beach in Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245374950-XEMBQSBJ4JSSDN3K4JBW/EPSON119.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here's my first sketch Pop's Surf Shop for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245379252-2NS0MCJ93YM94TMY8LXC/DSC04174x.jpg SKETCH BOOK And here it is completed, just down the beach From Big Momma's Snack Shack in Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514102824-ZUJ98MR42AVFY0CDVPFO/PIGx.jpg SKETCH BOOK - pig.jpg Sketches of signage for street scenes in "Let it Shine" (2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514054972-40EBRQRWH0MIQK5FTZA4/RAPBATTLEx.jpg SKETCH BOOK - rapbattle.jpg Concept sketch for a rap battle stage for "Let it Shine" (2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703366-6TREGINV3GDN2BNFAQC0/pirate.jpg SKETCH BOOK - pirate.jpg This is a projection drawing for a multi-layered facade that became the entrance to a pirate-themed restaurant in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521124133-K6ECV58UF71O2ZNX2XC4/DSC01155x.jpg SKETCH BOOK - dsc01155.jpg Here is the finished set-piece for the pirate-themed restaurant entrance in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755704296-OG8JM415XR1UD3V1Q256/shack.jpg SKETCH BOOK - shack.jpg This is a sketch of an abandoned mining shack that became a war games headquarters. We ended up not building the exterior on location in red rock country, but we did build the interior on stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521761361-PZH2YMRTIT4GIQCA2GYG/IMG_0471x.jpg SKETCH BOOK - img_0471.jpg This is an interior shot of the Quonset hut section of the abandoned mining shack stage set in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755704321-GY6G1QC7YK3E8VK8ZBM3/stone.jpg SKETCH BOOK - stone.jpg This sketch is of "Stone of Mitrios", the trophy in an elaborate war game in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703469-CI31XJRBC257HD4FJSLD/dsc01265.jpg SKETCH BOOK - dsc01265.jpg The finished "Stone of Mitrios" on its podium on the battlefield in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948841358-8VX9B7RWKXB34F52LQKR/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_17.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948842188-81DWO7XQETC5WISBA0MZ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_18.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948838214-AI0H7POBQGZCZ7OLT4P6/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_14.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948839639-BKDLKQK3FRFN2XRJZ1X8/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_16.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948838909-40PWSXUADGDAK7R2O3PI/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_15.jpg SKETCH BOOK As you can see, puppetry was going to be a big part of the Biblical musical project I was approached about conceiving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948844579-2K0ULIESMKO46Q2S0OMJ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_20.jpg SKETCH BOOK On the Biblical musical I was asked to conceive, not all the team members had film experience. I wanted to show them how cool, theatrical, in-camera effects could help them tell the story in an unexpected and cost-effective way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948836588-JQ7986CR5HIECH5IF7VP/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_12.jpg SKETCH BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948837289-W6LR2VUEA45W5FWBVFQ7/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_13.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is a basic storyboard I made for them to help them understand my take on a tricky dream sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948845097-VFN6LRVWFUT56BI0IJH3/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_21.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948842783-BZE9AU7A0V1M4OEVWLQB/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_19.jpg SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522328442-A7OMRI22GMWOD5RERCBA/GF-2x.jpg SKETCH BOOK I recently Art Directed a little mini-series for the Discovery Channel for production designer Ernesto Solo. It was about the California Gold Rush. Here is a notebook sketch I did on location to show how we might build a little mill in the upper Provo Falls in Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522445703-MGJXVDB9LYVIVD92LWAW/SAWMILLx.jpg SKETCH BOOK - sawmill.jpg An alternate idea for a less finished sawmill in the Upper Provo Falls, Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522497770-YZMSE9QGPW7L46Y20XBK/GF-3x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This sketch is of the 2 sided mill and wheel we built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522527549-BKPFI1C7RHN9F8C4JCCF/GF-4x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This sketch was to explain to the production how a 19th-century gold sluice would work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522557067-OLZPBRA51ACS0O7ANLY1/GF-Washer-1x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a sketch of a Gold Washer, an expensive device that promised to do the work of hundreds of men panning for gold in river sediment. Like most of these devices, it didn't work. We built an approximation of a gold washer extrapolated from what few research images we could find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522601259-7M9Q7DGCCVYPU7BFWH6E/GF-Washer-2x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the crank and hand-pump end of the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522633311-IJTXEJHPXII7XDGAP68T/GF-Washer-0x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is an isometric sketch of the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522657979-TL8ZLMIDNA4GL86P48X2/GF-Washer-4x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the wooden parts required to build the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522701878-HZ9HVD54GTUQCIKQK1QD/GF-Washer-3x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the sheet metal and steel parts we would need to bend for the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392523013098-AI16P3ZS4OIINMC4PMAO/IMG_0457x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a photo of the finished gold washer. In the story, it is brand new and pulled out of the crate in the California gold fields after the journey west. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392524005268-1FCGJFJS5LCDTYGAOQBS/GF-Quicksilver-1x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Another method of extracting gold featured in Discovery Channel's Gold Fever was a device called a quicksilver machine, which used a reservoir of mercury to separate gold from sediment. Here is a sketch of the machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703606-SZW24LTBLUAS1MMZ33JC/dam.jpg SKETCH BOOK - dam.jpg A sketch of the dam diversion technique of gold prospecting for Discovery Channel's Gold Fever. We built this in a remote oxbow of the Bear River in Northern Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245371649-05J03E1TR9UEBS007DTJ/EPSON121.jpg SKETCH BOOK I partnered with an aircraft recycler to repurpose large aircraft engine parts into a furniture line. Here's the sketch of the first prototype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245380026-U1J9N543G5Z5UO7U76ER/aviation-turbine-above-mark-hofeling.jpg SKETCH BOOK And here is the finished prototype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392530544410-YN9S2BMG233E01JD8S6W/skb_52x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The first conceptual drawing for the "Wizard's Cave" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392530578184-O4YO6ATTEHP5MYJUT20A/skb_53x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A working drawing for the torches and hammered reflectors for the "Wizard Cave" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525401749-WR39LXY981DIEKU23HWH/skb_54x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed "Wizard Cave" complete with torches from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). The strange light effect around the base of the walls was to light the green screen studio floor (here protected under cardboard) to create the effect of a bottomless pit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525365124-2P2L52I9SXH8RI1KVEDG/skb_55x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A final scene in the "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009) called for a wizard battle on a wide-open field on the Puerto Rican coast. I came up with the idea of druid-like concentric rings of obelisks surrounding a stone table that held the sought-after object. Here is an early conceptual drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525436911-2RHIUXCL23C58Z9RN5OT/skb_56x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This working drawing illustrates how we pulled the "stone" columns out of the "Wizard Cave" and re-purposed them to be used as the obelisks for the Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525490414-P2GNFX3AT5KEUEX86ICT/skb_57x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Here is a working drawing for a ring of mystical ribbon-banners that surrounded the concentric stone circles for the "Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie"(2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525582148-0RNXU9FA513D5DSNKEFW/skb_58x.jpg SKETCH BOOK This is a working drawing for the stone table in the center of the concentric obelisks that holds the sought-after, magical object in the "Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525800491-UY3ZSIG9TXA4CZ9EY97C/skb_59x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of part of the completed "Wizard Battle" set from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525827832-6R5IQR4LBKZR20NST5L3/skb_60x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A conceptual drawing for a ruined "Garita" that guard's the beginning of a magical path through the jungle in "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525857252-RR6UCQ9RS4T7KE60UPJF/skb_61x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A working drawing based on the conceptual drawing of the ruined "Garita" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525915106-YEDYLP12B1HXZU1BXY3V/skb_62x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed ruined "Garita" set on a beach on the edge of a dense jungle in Puerto Rico from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525994578-29EDHW0NY4JHN9GM7ILV/skb_44x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The very first notebook sketch for Troy's treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). The set required the sinking of three 50' tree trunks 6' into the ground in a suburban backyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526165959-FH1DSLLZPR06L230UZ3P/skb_45x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The first notebook illustration of the final look of Troy's treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526195025-X03CMZQP9US1JC9FMFU7/skb_46x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A simple model I built to help construction determine the pitch and spread of the three imported tree trunks and how they would intersect with the treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526291849-6EWP443DJ3AQFOS0ZZJE/skb_47x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). The oversized deck was required to accommodate the choreography for the musical number "Right here, right now". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526378792-MM51ZSFLN00HWKLSD0GQ/skb_48x.jpg SKETCH BOOK The very first notebook sketch for the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number in "High School Musical 3" (2008). The idea was that Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) would cruise through a stylized Manhattan toward the camera in their taxi, which then would open up to reveal Sharpay's fantasy Broadway dressing room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526411347-AAQE7O8Q1MHPMXJI8ZAJ/skb_49x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number from "High School Musical 3" (2008). Here it's in its "Taxi" configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526454057-VQ70R7M090ZNJQXMEF7J/skb_50x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number from "High School Musical 3" (2008). Here it is in its "dressing room" configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526554835-Y2QUWAEY8WPPU50GVWWA/skb_31x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526636047-49PHQ5SPTREW3V2I0NDB/skb_33x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526683642-5G4R7OFRG5544UCZENZP/skb_34x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526747973-CA1V8DVQGADHXK561V9H/skb_28x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Preliminary sketch for Lycus' House for a theatrical production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526794297-0JUGZ82XZYECYW8K4AEI/skb_29x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Final color sketch for the Roman street scene in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526878605-UPE7N36SEPCS9RV2EF8G/dancing-girlsX.jpg SKETCH BOOK A shot of the finished set for "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526973057-2JL8P4QZEV4UO0TGKLMR/skb_40x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Full-color working drawing for the multiple "kelp towers" for the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006)/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392527030034-FZ3A8C59T5WRX0WC8YDA/skb_41x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Full-color working drawing for the articulated whale for the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392527226256-3VAWY2QHBL40F70D2QDH/dance4x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed articulated whale and kelp towers at the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702997-0YX96AF1GVRSB8Q288WV/skb_12.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Jester" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392528784893-N538B51BH32WKU7WAQ5F/skb_13x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "King" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703722-E7DQ807WF740EA672F68/devil.jpg SKETCH BOOK - devil.jpg "The Devil" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392528947782-IKTTIXLBZ1H9N43DVM61/RSRPO014x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Lobster" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529100896-2EP1FYYGBPHWKP5MBOGV/skb_17x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Royal Rut" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529128027-HD7KT3OLPNM0S4RX3W8T/skb_18x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Vacuum" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529236612-6YFX4TK9L64NRTJAZNQ7/skb_21x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Chief Constable" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529409850-VYQ5Z754XW6VQ324U9K8/skb_25x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Gavel/Prize" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529451703-HT4YLPOUY7XZT0Z6FN0A/skb_26x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Pilloried "Jester" set for bloody execution character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703627-Y570UNAT3USIX09M6JVA/deus.jpg SKETCH BOOK - deus.jpg "Deus Ex Machina" character from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529655208-RX7IS6QZ14CFXGAJE4Z1/skb_24x.jpg SKETCH BOOK "Card/brief/wig" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529708558-U6B3175ZKREMRI9COA4E/skb_51x.jpg SKETCH BOOK A conceptual drawing for a stage proscenium for a live music television show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529741539-PBNX51XSZNLQN8PMB5QZ/skb_6x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529763522-3BN9YGWRCRPYFBT1IRLH/skb_10x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529803528-UH9SBBQC5YBZAI48SK46/skb_5x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529835435-GJ8X895OJ6XHYCJU0V46/skb_4x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529876946-5W6ZUOWFBX7301SGGBRQ/skb_11x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529909124-2OLUH67GC1HMBE449F80/skb_8x.jpg SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://www.markhofeling.com/production daily 1.0 2025-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536004603018-K4Z3GDVECH1J1UINX5KC/starstruck_photo_06_original.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536006173679-W76FL8SAGXUXKKPV2PQR/HSM1-1.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536017415140-7TZOIETLH27Z2JZHZUAG/burt-competing-anthony-hopkins-and-walton-goggins2.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536192393661-MN12WK2XI6LUSDO203G6/IMGP0298.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925980484-29DQ818DJL9X7LFNX3WW/IMG_0277.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603143624565-558LKCKG5EGHR6MD7JMG/IMG_4374.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392613074294-IY8JFY6NWWJB72OIMRIS/TBA002x.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN I was not the series production designer on Touched by an Angel, but they did need to shoot two overlapping episodes one season to get caught up. Diane Millet, the regular series designer, brought me in for these extra episodes. Here is a women's prison infirmary stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1625266417143-RKCJ28VGICKEX7H3YLRT/IMG_0486+copy.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN I designed the first episode of Mighty Ducks: Game Changers before I had to leave for a prior commitment. Production designer Michael Norman Wong took over after I left. The script called for a down-on-its-heels, nearly forgotten ice rink. We were unable to find one that fit the bill, so we built our own in two sound stages in Vancouver. This is the tattered Ice Palace. It’s so out of date, please note the pre-1965 Canadian flag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391572698-E8VWVSXHE5DOBF6O1V0J/DSC05854x.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN Deceased starlet's (Ashley Benson) memorial event / "Snow Angel" movie release party venue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392607130879-JOYXQRN0W792AIDT5DUN/DSC01370_1x.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN Go figure is the story of a young figure skater that ends up on the hockey team. So a lot of time was spent in various ice rinks. Here is one such arena, a really sad municipal ice rink made fabulous with the addition of some color.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612432006-J4OFAVS1QMGECUV6GRJO/Paper001x.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN The Paper Brigade was a family movie about a paperboy and his adventures. This is a huge treehouse that had to be installed without driving a single nail into the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1662418377750-377C4OTWY8UION6091EI/IMG_1777.jpeg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702947917966-TETMBRDK5X45QJB5TMC0/C-air002-X.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702965798517-JFOLA3X704TVKDE20CIA/the-runner-635654l-576x0-w-7edcffa0-1.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702968023447-6UW7HEIB6K0ES4R3BKM0/dontlookundera-2-X.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1703319829874-I1TZVHQNNHITJMHYXOSN/IMG_1123z.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1703362194465-JC68FJIXBDKKPAAS93H6/IMG_0547z.jpg PRODUCTION DESIGN 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As one of Salt Lake's most cutting-edge design firms, they needed a flexible, clean, and inspiring space for their dynamic workforce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701963-UWDE3EO52WTZCCKAAT3F/silvermine.jpg OTHER WORK "Rickety" railway and careening minecart full of skeleton miners for the entrance of Park City Silver Mine's haunted Halloween event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702880-8LAALJ8Z4JC0GYQGFQPZ/aod1.jpg OTHER WORK As a puppeteer and lab tech working for KNB EFX, I helped with the fabrication of several elements for Army of Darkness. Here one of KNB's iconic puppets wears one of my armor pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835893490-4V14BTPY7RZ0QBI32YEG/20170206_JJUIP_WaterWitch-11.jpg OTHER WORK Water Witch is the vision of three giants of the Salt Lake City bar and culture scene - Sean Neves, Scott Gardener, and Matt Pfohl. 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Here in the 1962 period is the "cast" of the film within the film preparing to dance among a few of the more than 100 custom surfboards we had made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379013431-5DE0ZP76EXL4GZAO8BDO/DSC03877x.jpg Teen Beach Movie Rival gangs of surfers and bikers compete for control of Big Momma's snack shack. We built this Polynesian-inspired beach hut on a gorgeous cove in eastern Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379094077-YLV0AM179IA25PLHIA21/DSC03843x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A shot of Big Momma's exterior from the opposing angle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379164237-7I4HA7V6EYNSV52F7W5C/DSC03844-2x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of Big Momma's exterior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379198100-H6QOX1Y2PAF9EKF200LO/DSC04152x.jpg Teen Beach Movie Big Moma's interior. This stage set was built, painted, and dressed in nine days. It is in the same studio space as the lighthouse/weather machine (see following pictures). There is only one space large enough to accommodate both sets (one at a time) in Puerto Rico, so the lighthouse had to be demolished, and this set built-in that compressed time. Because of the nature of photographing choreography, sets for dance are seen from top to bottom. So we had to create Big Momma's interior as an enclosed space. With no time to take ceiling pieces in and out for lighting, we had to design practical lighting solutions into the actual set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379269779-5XMTR7OTCON3PHUURS5P/DSC04069x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail of the dining area and stage in Big Momma's interior with the house band called, naturally, The Momma's Boys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379305341-Z0Q5X212AAVGNZP52TX7/DSC04130x.jpg Teen Beach Movie Another detail shot of Big Momma's interior, showing the multiple levels and the bright, Polynesian sea-scape murals we created to bring a sense of light and air into the space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379590600-KTJ5GD4RRWUF1ZT12TE2/DSC04123x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the kooky lava lunch counter and kitchen/pass-through in Big Momma's interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379630982-3KG339ZLW1Y50983M1QS/DSC04155x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the booths and tropical murals in Big Momma's interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481031386-KIDRGT4JWKMD35T8NACU/A_CAM+12C_1.6.1.jpg Teen Beach Movie The surfers and the bikers square-off West Side Story-style in Big Momma’s Snack Shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481036302-OGAEXX512YWOAIGZAYR6/A_CAM+64_1.9.1.jpg Teen Beach Movie Big Momma (LaVon Fisher-Wilson) welcomes the gang to her beach-side Snack Shack https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481365105-R7G7E8MAHZLNN68HGO2X/C_CAM+56N_1.15.1.jpg Teen Beach Movie Brady (Ross Lynch) jams out “Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ ” In Big Momma’s Snack Shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379833875-9MMH0F0OY5OQK44PGYX3/DSC03763x.jpg Teen Beach Movie Part of the plot of the movie within the movie in Teen Beach Movie revolves around an eccentric developer (Steve Valentine) and a mad scientist (Kevin Chamberlin) who are conspiring to destroy the beach and Big Mommas. I built this abandoned lighthouse set to house their dastardly weather machine, seen here, ready to send its evil ray out to ruin the weather and eliminate the waves. VFX extended the lighthouse to its full, interior height, as our studio space was just 25 feet tall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379964058-YQ3FS9Z8VN4QX424NPFX/DSC03762-2x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) weather control machine. It was built with moving parts that spin in opposite directions, a telescoping center, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391379999272-5S1NORMO8ZLRX7TMNORH/DSC03778x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) control unit for his weather machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380047757-TDCERWVMXHQVEQ3WWXD0/DSC03790x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the massive "power towers" that feed the weather control machine in the mad scientist's (Kevin Chamberlin) spooky old lighthouse. As is often the case in designing for choreography, a designer must anticipate dancers using every surface and toe-hold in a set as a platform or springboard. We went to great expense to make these huge "electrical" towers completely climbable for the cast. VFX added crackling arcs of electricity from the copper balls atop the towers to the lightning-bolt receivers on the machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1393124583865-Z6MHDWKIVB8P9JHU807W/DSC037252x.jpg Teen Beach Movie An outside view of the lighthouse set nearing completion helps illustrate its volume and shape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605480947819-Z6GYNURSNICKXE3UWXES/CAM_B_SC_70_1.5.1_2.jpg Teen Beach Movie The dastardly land-developer Les Camembert (Steve Valentine) and mad-scientist Dr. Fusion (Kevin Chamberlin) conspire to dominate the world in front of their weather control machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380078477-4XZIWWQ4GELUB0YTFN0Z/DSC04174x.jpg Teen Beach Movie The beginning and end scenes in Teen Beach Movie take place on the same beach as the 1962 period scenes but in modern times. This is Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop, a home, and workshop he shares with his granddaughter McKenzie (Maia Mitchell). After the 1962 portion of the shooting schedule was complete, we had just six days to tear down Big Momma's exterior and build this interior/exterior house, complete with dressing and greens before the company returned to complete shooting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380138459-RSMS345X8DL0FJHMMI37/DSC04218x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop. We built this interior/exterior set right at the high-tide line on a cove in eastern Puerto Rico. This way our kids could run out the front door, grab their boards and jump right into the surf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380320641-1VMSODIJFT22CL0M2504/DSC04236x.jpg Teen Beach Movie An interior shot of the breezy, open kitchen and dining room in Big Poppa's surf shop/house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380383997-LOIL6XI14QQFH1X2V79E/DSC04284-2x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A reverse shot showing the casual living room in Big Poppa's surf shop/house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380422403-9C1CI2RN5I0E63N3BUPM/DSC04239-2x.jpg Teen Beach Movie The workshop in Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380458334-ECZEM4Q6JP912HHMN4H7/DSC04245x.jpg Teen Beach Movie A detail shot of the workbench in the workshop of Big Poppa's (Barry Bostwick) surf shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380538361-J544CB0MQ0ZYL8V64ZQ4/DSC04303x.jpg Teen Beach Movie McKenzie's (Maia Mitchell) bedroom in Big Poppa's surf shop/house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391380883350-PDWY8BVT2NWEIV54STNB/DSC04013x.jpg Teen Beach Movie Biker girl Lela's (Grace Phipps) over the top, early 1960's bedroom. This was the setting of one half of the musical number "Like Me". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481030622-PBP55N33UD7WTGZURLMX/A_CAM+85W_1.7.1.jpg Teen Beach Movie The folding screen becomes a stage in the song “Like Me”. https://www.markhofeling.com/fabadventure daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521419115573-BGVV98ERYGHIH6LD1XGW/DSC_0103x.jpeg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385938277-E1399YHGHQLBSCF17DLU/IMG_9562x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure "Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure" follows the familiar High School Musical character (Ashley Tisdale) from her pampered country club life to the rough and tumble of New York and Broadway. This is her performance for her country club fundraiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385994416-ZACNU63P61U7Q3OK3LNJ/IMG_9563x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Another shot of Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) country club fundraiser performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391386046790-I2CZK85FLEN4CXAI98ZN/IMG_9367x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) luxurious pink bedroom at home in Albuquerque. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392617060714-4XSWKXKKWNRKCZ82GL8C/IMG_9419-2x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Upon her arrival in New York Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) is thrown out of her prearranged penthouse, and is rescued by young filmmaker Peyton (Austin Butler), who takes her to a spare apartment in his rough, dirty East Village walk-up. This is the hallway we built to connect the apartment sets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391386246525-EBW1HM83RJFIJCJF1DK7/IMG_9406x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure A view into Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) horrible studio apartment stage set, complete with a built-in murphy bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391386276335-HP9PX4E6AK10LK8NZ6P0/IMG_9409x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Reverse of Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) miserable studio apartment stage set, complete with in-room tub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391386342372-BK1IR7YE0RQTGWG9FX75/IMG_9426x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure A detail of the luggage we created for Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) with custom-designed plaids and other patterns looking quite out of place in this dismal, post-war green apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387514007-OKO70VT1JOQC2L2525VC/IMG_9497x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure In the story, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) takes charge of her situation and converts her miserable studio into a frilly, pink, inside-Jeannie's-bottle dream apartment. This is the same stage set as the one pictured previously. We had only half a day and one night to make the transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387584602-2RI7IPNAJ8949AL25S6N/IMG_9502x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure A reverse of Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) transformed apartment, showing even her horrible 1960's appliances made delightfully pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387452344-70V4ANQHZ02MKHZ1KM7Y/IMG_9481x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Another angle of the murphy bed in Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) transformed apartment, this time on the morning of the shoot with the proper lighting. The murphy bed was a running gag that kept swallowing her up as she slept. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387640983-99SOSKNLB9WUS9MML3VH/IMG_9429x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure The script required a moment where Peyton (Austin Butler) calls to Sharpay(Ashley Tisdale) from his neighboring apartment window. I designed a "Lightwell", an architectural detail typical of 19th century multi-story New York apartment buildings that allowed air and sunlight to service inner rooms, and thus allowed our hero's windows to be straight across from each other. This also required the entire floor of the apartment building to be on a 6-foot riser. Here is a detail of the lightwell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387682892-6WNJY8C22637ZOQ04NFY/IMG_9462x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure This is NYU film student Peyton's (Austin Butler) neighboring studio apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387798252-0QQXLEBE4ZYWY5VW8UB4/IMG_9463x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Another view of Peyton's (Austin Butler) studio apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387828354-83WDC2QFZ5L1FX14UCHF/IMG_9465x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure A view of Peyton's (Austin Butler) studio apartment stage set. Here is his editing workbench. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387880127-DA4ADUHZN3S5VZJK8VDU/IMG_9552x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure A high-end "Albuquerque" nail salon we dressed into a shop in Toronto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391387974932-DFOWLPA0W75FR6GMNT8R/IMG_9388x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Backstage Broadway dressing room for Sharpay's evil nemesis Amber Lee Adams (Cameron Goodman) stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388125140-5PQ1PSHSO84NEXHUDWD1/DSC_0102x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure After many ups and downs, Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) lands the role of a lifetime in a big Broadway show. Here is her big moment on the opening night of "A Girl's Best Friend", with a deconstructed city-scape of an idealized New York neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388161685-1LZ7WFBCY249DVBXGSH8/DSC_0103x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Another moment in the opening number of "A Girl's Best Friend", with Broadway fantasy marquees descending above the stage. This was installed in Toronto's beautiful Elgin theater. Our schedule overlapped with theG20 summit, and the theater was well within the high-security area. So we had to design the set to load-in in a few short hours before the lockdown, and rioting occurred outside the front doors as we were assembling it. It was an exciting day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391456127923-MHDW00FAHNQIC1OTAS39/bedroom2x.jpg Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) in her fabulous, remodeled apartment. https://www.markhofeling.com/mfb daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516061282-YMPBFKIWCR10H3YAIT90/DSC06243.JPG My Future Boyfriend https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388232157-ODR6KODG738YGAQ6AIS8/DSC00274x.jpg My Future Boyfriend My Future Boyfriend begins far in the future, in a dystopian technocracy where the notion of “love” has been forgotten. A future scientist (Barry Watson) finds a romance novel in the ancient wreck of a cruise ship. This is the wrecked contemporary cruise ship cabin a thousand years in the future et. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388306062-45YMR6Y9G7E39PE3CEGA/DSC06239x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Another view of a wrecked contemporary cruise ship cabin a thousand years in the future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388340315-QHRZCC67KHG3Q8BFBZM1/DSC00296x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Archeology lab stage-set belonging to a scientist (Barry Watson) in a very Orwellian future a thousand years hence, complete with precious 20th century artifacts, such as pink flamingos, a mirror ball, and a laptop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388397064-JY61EZTSZNDS11BGLJ2Y/DSC06223x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Reverse view of the future archeologist's (Barry Watson) lab stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388433468-5NMQNR1BHYYUK2NBJ7T3/DSC06250x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Time-travel laboratory stage set of another scientist (Fred Willard) in the distant, dystopian future complete with a time machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388526235-MB35STGEMF8TIR0RWJAQ/DSC06243x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Another view of the future temporal scientist's (Fred Willard) time machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388585224-Y114TSPDZBB1PY3SFV6U/DSC00344x.jpg My Future Boyfriend "Strange Times" New Orleans newspaper office. It's a "Weekly World News", ridiculous, photo-shopped hoax style, check-out-aisle tabloid. We created the newspaper masthead as a primary-colored, attention-grabbing graphic, then used the same colors to make the newsroom a bold, splashy, carnival atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388624185-O4T7TDQZRGPZNTHAHVCC/DSC00560x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Another view of the chaotic "Strange Times" newspaper office, with absurd and comical "Strange Times" front pages framed on the wall. (To see the front pages we created to add a layer of authenticity to the set, click here). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388672286-6EZENOCXQMCI18Z6XMVB/DSC00346x.jpg My Future Boyfriend The lobby of the "Strange Times" New Orleans newspaper office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391388812749-L0COPT1DJ4KOQ9G5BKA3/DSC00368x.jpg My Future Boyfriend Our two hapless time-travelers (Barry Watson & Fred Willard) steal a car from the New Orleans Federal building to drive across town to the Strange Times newspaper office. The director wanted to sell the idea that their journey had not been too pretty. So I gave him this gag of a car, complete with clotheslines, birdhouses, a chain-link fence, and even a birthday cake with candles still lit. https://www.markhofeling.com/dbro daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521109966-P7Z301FZ4WN5XD2CUHRO/DBpan3x.jpg Den Brother https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391822704-I7ORX1AX6CJSPILBHGDN/DBpan3x.jpg Den Brother Den Brother is a Disney Channel original movie comedy about a well-meaning but out of his depth big brother taking over his little sister’s Bumble Bee scout unit. This is their family home we built on stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392179982-X8EQX05DQQQNHD5QG5WR/DBpan5x.jpg Den Brother The reverse of the Pearson family living room- stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392356254-DNIVKPIJPA4X6RMTTIN5/DBPan11x.jpg Den Brother Pearson family kitchen/ family room- stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392405840-UP7BQBHTMIZ05MM3T33B/IMG_8112x.jpg Den Brother Reverse of the Pearson family kitchen- stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392438734-02N1OF02TC1EIVUOX6I1/IMG_8106x.jpg Den Brother Dad's (Maurice Godin) office in Pearson house- stage set https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392477654-7YAWI9C7HZBB7M4N408O/IMG_8102x.jpg Den Brother Family room in the Pearson house stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392505926-Z61QKYN1L5HCWXI800CV/IMG_8255x.jpg Den Brother Aaron's (Hutch Dano) bedroom in the Pearson house- stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392552509-9OW1I6O9HQIPSD97URUU/IMG_7868x.jpg Den Brother Goth Bumble Bee scout's (Kelly Gould) bedroom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392591599-8RO5K8PZU4VAOU5OK96Q/Den-Brother-1x.jpg Den Brother The reverse of Goth Bumble bee scout's (Kelly Gould) bedroom (she's really into Halloween, costumes, and makeup). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392592731972-94LZ6HK74IHSRJE89UJT/IMG_7891x.jpg Den Brother A loft apartment where another of the girls in the Bumble Bee scout unit lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392592839534-4ANQI3C6T8CXV46B52YI/IMG_7894x.jpg Den Brother A reverse of the loft apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392853997-WHCH55ENFAR8IOH8H71G/IMG_7980x.jpg Den Brother "Camporee", yearly Bumble Bee scout event and the final scene of the movie. It was decided to make it an indoor event because of the severe winter conditions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392896412-G3AHHHRGDDK79HAYRAOI/IMG_7998x.jpg Den Brother A view of "Camporee" inside the gate, with brown and honey striped Bumble Bee scouts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392592851129-ZN0RGZSFPTKNUPJPRWBB/IMG_7990x.jpg Den Brother A detail shot of the indoor "campfire" of the Bumble Bee scouts Camporee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391392947257-S3RRSLLX8LO29ZBEQQ6V/IMG_7966x.jpg Den Brother Our young hero Aaron (Hutch Dano) is quite the hockey star in our story. here is the oversized Ice hound graphic we added to his team’s home rink. https://www.markhofeling.com/cheetah2 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392419183278-YQ0PWN922W3H4JL2GBY2/DSC06811x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534486311-N9Y7Z3N8WTLG4NFPMBO2/DSC07027x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 "Welcome to the Jungle"-themed high school graduation party. This was a particularly challenging scene because it was supposed to be an American public high school gymnasium, but we had to create that feeling in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534587064-OSJ0G364I6WQXWGUGFMH/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00000x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Galleria's (Raven Symone) New York bedroom stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534627563-HNPYF5XNT0KYOR8L5UXS/DSC06854x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 "The Dancing Cat" Barcelona teen nightclub. We created this teen-safe, brightly colored, Mad-Hatter’s-style tea party vibe into a hardcore underground club in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755697832-1C9EOUZD7KA4RFVURM0S/ch4.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 A view of the candy-colored "juice bar" in the Dancing Cat teen nightclub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534684337-I0R9TAXV4KP99WNJ2ART/DSC06811x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Another view of the Dancing Cat teen nightclub in Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534940314-MLKJ258S5WKFESQCT6NC/DSC06812x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Some of our custom chandeliers for the Dancing Cat teen nightclub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534948332-HDJSBSQPQ3Z7XUEXQC03/DSC06832x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Another view of the Dancing Cat teen nightclub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755697677-B1DLA80UYSSPQE1RXBB0/ch5.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Music festival finale venue for "Amiga's Cheetahs" dance number. We built this outdoor music event in the gothic quarter of Barcelona. The stone stairs in the background are where Christopher Columbus told Queen Isabella he had found a new route to India (he hadn’t, but still…) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534779833-YI5IFYIC6AKIGPBGOH0D/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00017x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Another view of the music festival venue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534811807-UAOH4QEJ97OTN7YST4NL/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00013x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 The Cheetah's Spanish guest house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534843950-FDD8F1CUOWAMT0YUSUXF/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00010x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Another view of the Cheetah's Spanish guest house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534725813-55G625JX0OVK4ZL27T0N/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00014x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Luc's (Abel Folk) office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534887288-0MIRDWBRK4GA8K3TY4YT/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00004x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 Joaquin's (Golan Yosef) romantic tango studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534983164-SDYD6J3CC7QA5K9808C7/CHEETAH_GIRLS_2_Title_01_01_00002x.jpg Cheetah Girls 2 The Aramet fashion boutique in Cheetah Grils 2. https://www.markhofeling.com/sstruck daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391456438506-SFGJK8SIDZCUOB9BDTM1/IMG_6814x.jpg Starstruck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391393622154-NU3AMMU932R1WVRS22XH/IMG_6814x.jpg Starstruck "Starstruck" is the story of a young pop star (Sterling Knight) trying to impress a not very impressed ordinary girl (Danielle Campbell). Starstruck also happens to be the name of the TMZ-style gossip show trying to get to the bottom of this possible relationship. This is the Starstruck TV show stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392593729405-GEV6VWLJ964H6QFJ3H7R/IMG_6785-2x.jpg Starstruck A wider view of the "Starstruck" gossip TV show stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391393688759-IKAEHW7LFYKESBFSTIN1/IMG_6601x.jpg Starstruck Shooting star-themed high school prom scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391393713853-2YJG1G99DDH26WWGWQ7F/IMG_6596x.jpg Starstruck Shooting star-themed high school prom scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392593758951-QM0T1AMDGW5A3W1JVYH4/IMG_6800-2-2x.jpg Starstruck Guest bedroom at Grandma's house stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392593801373-0WVEWYFSUQC7G53OII78/IMG_6797-2x.jpg Starstruck The reverse of guest bedroom at Grandma's house stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391393779633-0L21K28B1R7IMC3Y5RWC/IMG_6804x.jpg Starstruck Hallway leading to restrooms in a teenage nightclub stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391393985302-B55KR19WFU71SWO320BQ/IMG_6806x.jpg Starstruck Women's bathroom in a teenage nightclub stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755695348-CW1Q6H21ZDHZJELLRVDP/strstrk11.jpg Starstruck Christopher and Jessica (Daniele Campbell and Sterling Knight) at the shooting star-themed prom. https://www.markhofeling.com/glcic daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391455940362-G24BXUEAJU0J7Y083GIJ/IMG_0472x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384602261-PS5X7IJ4R2HT1KY1G9WW/IMG_0472x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas is a comedy movie adapted from the Disney Channel hit comedy series, Good Luck Charlie. The movie follows the antics of the Duncan family as they get separated on their way to Christmas at Grandma’s house. This is an abandoned mining shack we built that is commandeered by paintball warriors as a command center for a huge annual tournament. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384643459-1MR8KK4399EXJYLZT9NB/IMG_0478x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Another room in the commandeered old mining shack stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384704241-NGKM9Q3RDV386AA3AWZ6/shcak2x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Dad (Allan Kramer) and his sons (Jason Dolley and Bradley Steven Perry) free themselves from capture in the commandeered mining shack's command center, complete with 3D tactical map and weapons and communication cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384740236-GDS4JWZ1NWGKEYOTVIUB/IMG_0562x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Another view of the commandeered shack's command center with its tactical battlefield 3D map and mobile command communication cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384787933-STLTOZUKO76V0ZK5SI8P/IMG_0557x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! A detail of one of the mobile command communication cases in the commandeered shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384849749-1747Y5NX7W2LT2RIKFA4/DSC01234x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! A view of the desert paintball battlefield complete with spotlight towers and battle barriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384883234-9KU63SV11YUITIKJE2NV/DSC01274x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Another view of the desert paintball battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384934236-45UHRF0RLT1Q5K5A6O7V/DSC01308x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! A night-view of the desert paintball battlefield with internally-lit spotlight towers and dazzle-camouflage battle barriers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384984590-MZY71B9YLR143373YF1X/DSC01164x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Entrance to a pirate-themed Vegas-style buffet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385025757-X28ZKGXC7MIM3Q8GH6VX/DSC01153x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Another view of the restaurant entrance, showing the 3D effect made by layering the flat set-pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385074672-PAFT1JIM2IV3GBFKH0I5/IMG_0568x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Classic American diner interior, done up for an over-the-top, Route 66 Christmas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385768667-QHOPZQ78OPAGYQAS9G5A/IMG_0610x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! An airport gate we built into a roll-up door at a convention center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391385857206-0OOFJ1UR5FDUS83DC5SC/DSC01111x.jpg Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! Over-the-top Christmas at Grandma and Grandpa's tacky Palm Springs condo. https://www.markhofeling.com/ccupid daily 0.75 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516429148-PTNHYNH67Y8K0PTX93PX/DSC05854.jpg Christmas Cupid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391572698-E8VWVSXHE5DOBF6O1V0J/DSC05854x.jpg Christmas Cupid Deceased starlet's (Ashley Benson) memorial event / "Snow Angel" movie release party venue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391612087-9TQ2JKFT2MB7FN06PD2A/DSC05847x.jpg Christmas Cupid Detail of stage at the venue with a projection of scenes of "Snow Angel" (Ashley Benson), a movie within the story that was never shot. We created a loop of scenes from the movie for the memorial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391662371-TJ44SBVV30XPCFO88NVJ/DSC05743x.jpg Christmas Cupid Entry and signage to Carl Craig and associates, a high-end Hollywood PR firm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391696925-70228GS42DD7JMXKX973/DSC05746x.jpg Christmas Cupid The reverse of the PR lobby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391734056-IEAF8VJ84Q0HS1NLUEB8/DSC05735x.jpg Christmas Cupid Conference room at Carl Craig and associate PR firm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391391765359-GUSDE95BL80FDX4ZOZ83/DSC05740x.jpg Christmas Cupid Example of PR firm office.  https://www.markhofeling.com/10things daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391457472704-H4JLAHIU3A7Q2SC8PFNO/IMG_3229-2x.jpg 10 Things I Hate About You https://www.markhofeling.com/letshine daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516232803-GL0R1WIE0NK0Z87KCYS0/DSC02956.JPG Let It Shine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381508474-URDS2X2ATFFRUPG8VDGP/DSC02893x.jpg Let It Shine Let It Shine is a modern, hip-hop retelling of Cyrano De Bergerac. Much of the story centers around young poet Cyrus (Tyler James Williams) and his relationship with his conservative, Baptist minister father (Courtney B. Vance). Here is a view of his church, we added a rather complicated stage build into it to make space for our musical performances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381572602-L3GGKWQJJJQDTNVC4PBS/DSC02984x.jpg Let It Shine Even more of the story takes place in a teen hip-hop club called Off the Street. Thematically we chose to play on that name and create a huge, de-constructed "street" as a safe space for a young crowd to meet, dance, and compete. The set was built in an enormous, abandoned auto manufacturing plant, which gave us the opportunity to incorporate some of its amazing industrial goodness. This is the main rap-battle stage and DJ booth which used to be the elevator that moved cars between floors at the plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381624448-DFGBBMYPGGZ342DNRD8W/DSC02989x.jpg Let It Shine As part of our de-construction concept, we found lightweight, junked English cars, stripped them down to the bare bones, and hung them from the ceiling, ringed by circular lighting trusses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381705394-KUHZQHLTHKPJF80MP7AI/DSC02968x.jpg Let It Shine Opposite the rap-battle stage, here is a section of the de-constructed "city". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381754044-IDQC207V68RS1JWLDIYT/DSC02965x.jpg Let It Shine A view from behind the rap-battle stage, with the caged-in DJ booth on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381789583-5GR5XMKCPPABGRZWGGBO/DSC02956x.jpg Let It Shine A view of the club before opening. This is the dining area, and we decided to handle the kitchen by presuming it's inside this lovely Airstream trailer, advancing our "street" scenario nicely. The large arched windows are built into a wall plug, closing the set off from the vast factory space beyond. A painted cityscape that wraps the outer walls of the set covers part of the windows, adding a sense of depth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381832696-PM8HGNQ2GCKBXV4NAU9B/DSC02981x.jpg Let It Shine A view of the pool table area taken from the "Gas Station" in club Off the Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381897333-JDNBPVF84FO9WF06ABJI/DSC02939x.jpg Let It Shine One of the suspended car/lighting units in club Off the Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391381956755-RRKVYNV44XNVEUDYCKYF/DSC02906x.jpg Let It Shine A detail of the "city" under construction. To further the de-constructed, street-art feel of our cityscape, we photographed several brick patterns, modified them to make them super grainy, and printed them in the color scheme of old, cheap comic book pages on huge rolls of paper. Then the painters applied them in torn strips and patches, to give the feeling of the whole city as nothing but layers and layers of wheat-pasted street art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382087000-R0YFBTDW22ZNLIW9CX2X/DSC03015x.jpg Let It Shine A detail of the DJ booth perched behind the rap-battle stage in club Off the Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382130473-O83EZT4S62VTZKSN96MC/DSC02980x.jpg Let It Shine In the story, club Off the Streets is a well-known venue for top hip hop acts. This is a stage/set piece built specifically for a performance by the popular young star Roxxie (Coco Jones). It’s ultimately a huge triangular, mirrored room for several beats of the song, which creates an infinite effect, reflecting Roxxie's image and the harlequin-checkered floor thousands of times. Here only two of the walls are in. The third wall was installed by a crane overnight, and consisted of two 12'x16' sliding doors that weighed 1,200 pounds each. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382187819-477EUV4GGNGDKZMIHDCT/DSC03006x.jpg Let It Shine Another view of Roxxie's (Coco Jones) stage in club Off the Street. Centered in the raked stage is a two-tiered turn table, the top held Roxxie as she turned clockwise, and her four "attendant" dancers turned counterclockwise, creating a music-box effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382427367-AINTR68JKNMDY75AL488/DSC02916x.jpg Let It Shine Unfortunately, the nature of the set made it very difficult to photograph when it was lit and closed up with the talent inside. So this nearly-finished, lit-by-worklights image is my best demonstration of the full, three-walled triangular mirror effect in action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384164112-GNWTFO06LQQV80XZULKF/Mirrorsx.jpg Let It Shine Roxxie (Coco Jones) Ready to go in her fully enclosed morrored set. I did manage to dash in and grab this shot moments before we rolled. I think it adequately conveys the idea of the space and the effect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382616842-HIUNXYSCN7J3B8TH3DSQ/DSC03036x.jpg Let It Shine Another single-performance, music video style set in club Off the Street, this time for the debut of up-and-coming hip hop star Kris (Trevor Jackson). This sits in the same opening as the giant, fragile, raked mirror set, which was torn out overnight and replaced with this sleek, black void. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382653288-JIHXUEAR7Z7XLSG4V9U6/DSC03387x.jpg Let It Shine Our sleek sign for Atlanta Records. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382687775-YIU7XKMOS6NXF9G8A42J/DSC03144x.jpg Let It Shine A stage set recording studio in Atlanta Records. Part of the Cyrano De Bergerac conceit requires the smitten young Roxxie (Coco Jones) to be unable to tell that the rapper in the session room is not the boy she thinks he is. So we created the sexy backlit wall so he would be silhouetted in the warm light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384097748-C9TI9AR9YA3OFLH9GETU/DSC03127x.jpg Let It Shine Another view of the Atlanta Records recording studio set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382805997-UZNDUOB4S69VCGNQX3J2/DSC03130x.jpg Let It Shine A detail of the session room with its glowing backlit wall in the Atlanta Records recording studio set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391382848770-E62FRIWGHUPP01EA6USH/DSC03147x.jpg Let It Shine A reverse in the recording studio room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383047964-IJSFSPN3LEVNGUS7F8J0/DSC03386x.jpg Let It Shine The waiting area outside the recording studios in Atlanta Records. The final set was a combination of a practical location- the incredibly impressive lobby of the Suntrust building in downtown Atlanta- and our stage set. This is the waiting area as built in the Suntrust lobby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383098940-AP4W9B9S05HPG2D4ZF7B/DSC03152x.jpg Let It Shine The Atlanta Records recording studio set we built looks out through huge glass windows to the waiting area, so we duplicated that little patch of the Suntrust lobby on stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383143219-WERCJHCO2YPLA2EO5K38/DSC03171x.jpg Let It Shine A lovely, glowing red sign we made for our fictional luxury hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383169781-DRHFMZ19E7WM77F52O6F/DSC03350x.jpg Let It Shine Elongated rap battle stage and stairs for the final, marquee rap competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391384049631-5BI06Q35BBGLA4GLYTIL/DSC03052x.jpg Let It Shine Cool fictional record shop sign we built (covering the sign for Atlanta's iconic Criminal records). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383429608-E8WCCIQ28WP3KHMAFW9K/DSC03053x.jpg Let It Shine Cute listening station in our fictional record shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391383468349-KAOO4FNT5VNUNS6SSIL6/DSC03079x.jpg Let It Shine We created "Papa Joe's" barbecue in an unoccupied storefront in downtown Atlanta, complete with cheerful pig/chef made out of an oil can. https://www.markhofeling.com/wizardsmov daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391456720257-VNXFX8MW3TOESE3541GY/IMG_5062x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391396517658-KUGEZN1GXBDTRL8W1AJV/IMG_5337-2x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie The Wizards of Waverly Place, The Movie was adapted from the Disney Channel’s wildly popular Wizards of Waverly Place series. The movie centers on the Russo family vacation to an enchanted island that leads them into a magical quest. This is the Russo family sandwich shop interior/exterior stage set- street scene complete with the subway-dining car. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391397635992-FXA2LNYBT75HPE3OMNIX/IMG_5349-2x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Interior of Russo family sandwich shop interior of interior/exterior stage set. (This is a recreation of a standing sitcom set originally designed by Michael Hynes in LA. We recreated it as a single-camera set for the movie in Puerto Rico). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391397696940-0FY5AQP4KWW1DLL3U1FB/IMG_5351-2X.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie The reverse of the Russo family sandwich shop interior/exterior stage set, note the subway-dining car element. This is a detachable, fully gimbaled unit used in a fantasy runaway train sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391397761468-OXMTJ2UNGCIRZ8Z1DTS1/IMG_5173x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Here is the detached subway-dining car being shot in its runaway train sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398218608-GCIHCZ75SVGYHKCRLYG4/Stone-of-Dreams-photos-318-2x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie This is the "Wizard Battle Field". We created these concentric rings of "stone" obelisks and ribbon banners surrounding a three-legged "stone" table to create some visual landmarks in an otherwise vast empty space in the final wizard battle sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398501552-R4UYWPQOP308UM2V1RHA/IMG_5062x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie This "wizard-carved" cave protected "the Stone of Dreams", the most important object in the wizarding universe. It sits on its pedestal protected by a "bottomless pit" and a latticework of crumbling beams and columns. In this sequence, our young hero Justin Russo (David Henrie) must skirt along the edges of the pit to retrieve the Stone of Dreams. So I designed these columns and torchiers to give him some handholds along the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398546123-51T6HNTIS8WMQFQDVAP6/IMG_5037x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie The reverse of the cave. The entry end and paint finish were made to match an amazing natural cave system in Puerto Rico we used to lead our hero's deep into this magically hewn hiding place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398609777-T8DX5XHJ7NAO252P9ONG/IMG_4876x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie A ruined fortress gate hiding the beginning of the Wizard's treacherous path built just at the high tide line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398639094-DU8HC5L0D2IKPSLXBQGN/IMG_4921x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie These are our magical "Floating" stones, built on our efx crew's brilliant universal hydraulic gimbals, magically carried our hero's (David Henrie & Selena Gomez) across the yawning chasm. We actually used this golf course fairway as a natural green screen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398669768-K1JRHJKUXDJ4X4CZQT9I/IMG_4929x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Tropical resort hotel room for the Russo kids (Selena Gomez, David Henrie & Jake T. Austin). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391398734102-34TYMFSZOFBEVF26V3F0/IMG_4930x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Tropical resort hotel room for Mr. and Mrs. Russo (David DeLuise & Maria Canals-Barrera). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536004508086-KWHUIJKSLQZ5B98YI57X/wisards20x.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie The Russo family (David Henrie, David DeLouise, Selena Gomez, and Maria Canals-Barrera) in the Wizard Cave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536003919403-MW8C7BDP9235G94UXDZM/wizards-of-waverly-place-the-movie-2009d.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Brave young Justin Russo (David Henrie) skirts the bottomless pit in the Wizard Cave to retrieve the magical Stone of Dreams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536003918630-RIZMAI8OFK7FNGTTMDYI/wizards_of_waverly_place22.jpg Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie Alex Russo (Selena Gomez) tries to retrieve the dropped Stone of Dreams in the Wizard Cave. https://www.markhofeling.com/minutemen daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392335562558-UNA7P2Z9A0QOMQF5CXCK/Minutemen4x.jpg Minutemen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122784720-47JGB9KLIVU5BFBMZJRW/Minutemen+M2.jpg Minutemen Minutemen is a clever Disney comedy about 3 nerdy boys who invent a time machine and use it to try to spare their fellow nerds from the daily humiliations of high school life. But, in classic time travel fashion, things don’t go as planned. This is their high school, the Summerton Rams. Our ram mascot covers a large, existing high school sign and had to be a complex steel fabrication because two of our boys find themselves hung from the ram’s horns by their underwear in their introductory humiliation. The large lettering was suspended from the roof by steel cables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122781282-HG0ER2ALNVFD3X9AAFM6/Minutemen+M4.jpg Minutemen The boys find the perfect home for their time machine project, the long-forgotten and abandoned civil defense shelter under their school’s football field. This is the set we built for that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122783429-J25JQT4E1LPQ4D92OBEX/Minutemen+M3.jpg Minutemen A reverse of the abandoned fallout shelter set. As their time machine required a tremendous amount of power, we designed this hazardous-looking “electrical room” to supply it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122783136-4IXSQZJDDD74GL1KOTT1/Minutemen+M5.jpg Minutemen A detail of the blast door in the abandoned fallout shelter set. We decided that the last time anyone maintained this place was probably in 1958, during the Eisenhower administration. So we added the portraits of the president and vice president from the time. During the cleaning-up montage, the director made a great joke of one of the boys pulling cobwebs off the Nixon portrait and recoiling in horror. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122785294-PZJKYS4P1N6HCG93V069/Minutemen+M8.jpg Minutemen The cheekily-themed “Rock Around the Clock” dance at the high school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122780817-OVSCUZHKKUGUEEHVSMTZ/Minutemen+M1.jpg Minutemen The time machine the boys build in the abandoned fallout shelter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122779166-ANEMK7OVLIEPCZA9K4DA/Minutemen+M7.jpg Minutemen The technical wizard and youngest of the gang, Charlie (Luke Benward) makes a quantum-powered rocket engine in his dad’s landscape comapny’s utility cart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1626122778955-JSXWC2GGTCUW2HERA7B5/Minutemen+M6.jpg Minutemen Another view of the quantum-powered rocket engine in the silly Ladybug Landscaping utility cart. https://www.markhofeling.com/hsm3 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392335449624-1N1SQUJEX2LAA41KGX8G/IMG_1262x.jpg High School Musical 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391402723709-EQGBAE84UAVR76B07USK/IMG_0156x.jpg High School Musical 3 High School Musical 3 follows on the stupendous success of the first 2 HSM films. HSM 3 takes place in the final year of high school for our familiar cast of characters. The musical number “A Night to Remember” opens in this split tuxedo Shop/Dress Shop theatrical set. The opening moments cut between the green, masculine Tux shop full of insecure boys on the left and the blue dress shop full of girls reveling in the prom preparations on the right before revealing it’s the same space. The shops then recede into the wings and the central element spins around revealing it is a split bathroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391402821900-5LH1EF5562WTQ5FP3X0D/IMG_0165x.jpg High School Musical 3 Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) prepare for their big prom night in their split bathroom set. The bathroom rolls away, and a curtain raises revealing a neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391402883080-GAK7UZGHY7BP5TYUWIMC/IMG_0223x.jpg High School Musical 3 The “Neighborhood” sequence from "A Night to Remember". The boys (Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, Lucas Grabeel & co.) collect their dates (Vanessa Hudgens, Monique Coleman, Olesya Rulin & co.) and are picked up by a hinged limousine set-piece, the neighborhood facade flies out, then the house interiors split on rolling wagons, revealing a lush garden beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391402955814-I3D209E0TXEDGIPP8MA9/IMG_0205x.jpg High School Musical 3 The "Garden Party" sequence from "A Night to Remember". The final sequence was conceived as a New Orleans garden party.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403025065-ERGF1NZZ7RH7RWPRWJGF/IMG_0488x.jpg High School Musical 3 Troy's (Zac Efron) treehouse. This house location was established in two prior movies, without a tree or treehouse in the backyard. The third movie called for a sizeable treehouse in the yard that had to accommodate choreography for a duet. This necessitated craning three massive trunks over the existing family home, sinking them 8 feet in the ground, then installing our treehouse in them. This treehouse was later relocated to a turntable on a green screen stage for completion of the work on "Right Here, Right Now". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403037235-TWE2EQEEP4AOW9KXKMKV/IMG_0484x.jpg High School Musical 3 Interior of Troy's (Zac Efron) treehouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403052616-LR3KKPQO5O6DUHF664EZ/IMG_0646x.jpg High School Musical 3 The junkyard set for "The Boy's are Back". Contemporary junkyards are full of awful-looking plastic, modern cars. I drove everyone crazy demanding we find a junkyard full of ancient American muscle cars, and at last we did. Shacks were built and the classic junked cars were arranged in a sort of an amphitheater for choreography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392595577525-20AW09DUSR76UR8638T9/IMG_0688x.jpg High School Musical 3 Another view of our classic car junkyard for “The Boys are Back”, with our junked car amphitheater and the amazing, green car-shredding machine as our backdrop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403185377-W9GV6CKVQWAEBBNXQBNI/IMG_0671x.jpg High School Musical 3 Detail of shed build in junkyard set for "The Boys are Back" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403222754-JL4NEEBSYRWKF2C58V6Q/IMG_0661x.jpg High School Musical 3 Detail of one of the sheds we built in the Junkyard set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403245336-MZ0N2RHGJX2588KUCWL2/IMG_0945x.jpg High School Musical 3 Show scrim for the opening of "Senior Year". A lighting change from front to back-lit reveals basketball players in a stylized "Gym" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403266545-89IF5G6SR6M3XT51RCIP/IMG_1341x.jpg High School Musical 3 "Gym" set for choreographed basketball number. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403364137-S2O9ZZFTKB9XN35PG32J/IMG_0924x.jpg High School Musical 3 "Gabriella's (Vanessa Hudgens) House" element complete with Troy's (Zac Efron) climbing tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391405106255-WX5RUJAX3553VMFOB0OP/IMG_1303x.jpg High School Musical 3 One of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) many extravagant stage sets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403442908-A1WFE36NBM39SHK4RUO1/IMG_0725x.jpg High School Musical 3 A view of the "Roof Garden". Established as a humble extension for the school's botany club in the first movie, it greatly expanded into a lush, sprawling roof-top park with huge planter-beds, skylights, trees, etc. to create a verdant and romantic landscape for the waltzing duet "Can I Have This Dance?" for the third film. It took over 40 crane-loads to get all the materiel onto the school roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403481028-14YVTY1WXXJOFUB4HUT5/IMG_1020x.jpg High School Musical 3 We had a very short window to transform the work-a-day, red and white school cafeteria into a magical backdrop for “I want it all”, the tentpole musical number of the movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403698832-MZRF1OADWAQX1X1LD1JH/IMG_1033x.jpg High School Musical 3 “I Want it All” begins in a first-class airplane cabin. We conceived of a moment in the song where overly-entitled twins Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) imagine going on a fabulous trip. I created a vaudeville-style rotating set complete with fabulous 1960's Pan Am style stewardess (Monique Coleman) to accommodate this. Outside the window is a rotating column of blue sky with puffy clouds and little birds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403773716-0SY0SK7JSDV9PAXF2QZ1/IMG_1056x.jpg High School Musical 3 After an extremely brief flight, the twins arrive in a tiki-themed, tropical, miniature paradise with a not-terribly-threatening volcano throwing a colorful plume skyward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403840397-DGY2H2UC1Y28O9JBEWFR/IMG_1060x.jpg High School Musical 3 After a few beats of tropical sun and coconut drinks, they head to the club for an evening of dancing, then dash off the set for the next beats of the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391403905689-TYWBSLM8DGEUGF95Z4M9/IMG_1154x.jpg High School Musical 3 Soon we find the twins rolling in a cab down the sparkling streets of New York. We created faceted silver and gold skyscrapers that moved with the music. This was shot in a functioning school cafeteria, which just prior to this work, we had painted the iconic red and white. We had only a few days to totally repaint, add huge amounts of lighting (designed by the masterful Patrick Woodroffe, the Rolling Stones lighting designer) truss, and cable, and lay thousands of square feet of marlite high gloss dance floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391404097324-EJD8UYRGYZ3Y5JL0FSGT/IMG_1167x.jpg High School Musical 3 Soon the cab opens up, revealing it's not a cab at all, but Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) Broadway dressing room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392595534219-UKXBGLDBI8ECDPVGOM9N/IMG_1118x.jpg High School Musical 3 Another great moment during "I Want it All" involved a very Busby Berkeley moment involving dancers rotating custom-built cafeteria tables with a central pivot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391404235869-OEI5UN06EX2UKBH8U8JZ/IMG_1212x.jpg High School Musical 3 This is the reveal of the final sequence of "I Want it All", the climax of Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) Broadway fantasy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391404353934-DJUHVI29MSWLXOQQI30K/IMG_1262x.jpg High School Musical 3 Here is one of the final moments of the song in all its glory, all in a public school cafeteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391405021719-0Q31QPDIG0XKPZ7AXGOF/MVI_1416x.jpg High School Musical 3 Troy's (Zach Efron) angsty solo "Scream" required a sort of Fred Astaire moment, but unlike Astaire, his world was turning upside down. We built this chunk of a hallway in a rotating rig, and VFX built the rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391404685007-S5YA1KGVFJSUKW921BW2/IMG_0307x.jpg High School Musical 3 Oversized Wildcat puppet for the opening basketball game against the rival knights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391405191822-CJ7FD3N3VS0NC85V0ECS/IMG_0793x.jpg High School Musical 3 This is the fantasy Prom Set from the “Can I Have This Dance” reprise. Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) is missing prom because she’s away for a preparatory week at Stanford, and Troy (Zac Efron) drives 1,000 miles to dance with her at their “prom”. So we cut from their duet at Stanford and place them for an imagined moment in the prom they were missing with all their friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391404606133-EAJIF3GM0H9GW093SLFF/IMG_0755x.jpg High School Musical 3 This shows a rig built for an extremely effective in-camera effect for the closing number that allowed the cast to run from graduation on the football field, have the curtain drop behind them, and with a VFX assist magically end up on the auditorium stage. https://www.markhofeling.com/myfakefiance daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392334694870-4DC5F8PP57QNG1YKX28O/IMG_2872-2x.jpg My Fake Fiance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400001492-NASIW5OWIZTZOH5O7CWP/IMG_2872-2x.jpg My Fake Fiance My Fake Fiance is a romantic comedy about two people who’ve lost it all finding each other and falling in love. It starts at this wedding banquet we dressed at the Biltmore in Atlanta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400379835-DPNHKEDC114MCHR9H54A/IMG_3054x.jpg My Fake Fiance Empty townhouse apartment stage set for Jennifer (Melissa Joan Hart), who was robbed of everything she owned when her moving truck was stolen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400152420-8U2G4ZBM8JQIA3EKCLSK/IMG_3045x.jpg My Fake Fiance The entryway of Jennifer's empty townhouse stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400215468-GL8CYG2CQ3O8W8NF13OI/IMG_3046x.jpg My Fake Fiance Kitchen detail of Jennifer's empty townhouse apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400273056-NI5BMUQ7YPCWHMMXCLO5/IMG_3050x.jpg My Fake Fiance Looking into the bedroom in Jennifer's empty Townhouse apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400441484-4TAHYVO2CHQYSOVIQGC0/IMG_2927x.jpg My Fake Fiance "Indochine" outdoor bistro we created in a park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392594721226-K8TWX2YJ4AJPIH9018AT/IMG_2955-2x.jpg My Fake Fiance Compulsive gambler Vince's (Joey Lawrence) railroad adjacent flop-house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391400527374-5XGFEGX4DMZU3KXLDF1Y/IMG_2958x.jpg My Fake Fiance Another angle of Vince's (Joey Lawrence) crummy flophouse apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755696189-MON0LWLMKF5TGKXB7J8L/myfake8.jpg My Fake Fiance Wedding scene (Melissa Joan Hart & Joey Lawrence). https://www.markhofeling.com/maldonado daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392421347325-KMNW8PBQAMIWF3DMAMCQ/MaldonadoMiracleJx.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702971747710-HW0ENLJMNSV4C0OF39RZ/Maldonado%2CEureka-Church-Exterior-2-2-1.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] The Maldanado Miracle is the story of a young Mexican migrant (Eddy Martin) who gets separated from his parents and hides in a dilapidated church in a dying border town. The San Ramos Catholic church and rectory interior/exterior set was built on an empty lot in Eureka, Utah. (Church photos by Lance Clayton) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702971745681-QOSXOC9LDQ0UZW1RWU6B/Maldonado%2CEureka-Church-Exterior-1-2-1.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] Another view of the San Ramos Catholic Church int/ext build. We chose to make a board and bat wooden slat-style church because the script called for religious pilgrims to affix thousands of novenas to the building, and this construction would make that quite simple. Also, we decided to locate the entrance on a side rather than an end so we would not have to fill the huge interior with extras every time we saw inside the door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699135-CHSJWEYH493SGP205DL4/maldomir3.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] An interior view of the San Ramos church build. The scaffolding around the crucifix was a story point, allowing an immigrant boy to hide in the ceiling of this crumbling old building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699109-EJJUFAX8MTUT03I0A5AF/maldomir4.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] Detail of the large Christ figure and crucifix we had sculpted for the interior of the San Ramos church build. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699072-JJVTYI5X67M8L2QQN4AG/maldomir5.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] Detail of the crucifix. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699023-WO47QAELBF2X5JVZO2LI/maldomir7.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] Reverse from the altar of the San Ramos church interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702971744634-VZP3V16HTQCFAB19CCON/Maldonado%2CEureka-Gas-Station-2-1.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] San Ramos' ramshackle gas station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702971746675-2YQO29G2X0XYBO57ZKLR/Maldonado%2CEureka-Welcome-Sign-2-1.jpg The Maldonado Miracle [Art Director] Tattered town sign for the once-proud, now dying border town of San Ramos. https://www.markhofeling.com/conair daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422858077-QZJDWHWRXZOZW4FDAQW4/C-air002-1x.jpg Con Air [Assistant Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702947917966-TETMBRDK5X45QJB5TMC0/C-air002-X.jpg Con Air [Assistant Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702947916446-CT9NQO39DPTJ48QXYN2Q/C-air001-JW-X.jpg Con Air [Assistant Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1705194589318-QOHU99C424PMDTHETN9R/ConAirB-X.jpg Con Air [Assistant Art Director] https://www.markhofeling.com/notarealpage-1-1 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422132216-GVJZ68REMJQ87C0DBGFH/nobody_01_02_00036x.jpg Nobody's Baby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700146-Q1ZJSF2Z6BW0PP3P9I07/nobody_01_02_00036.jpg Nobody's Baby In Nobody's Baby, two hapless, escaped convicts (Skeet Ulrich & Gary Oldman) escape from jail and end up rescuing a baby from a car accident, resulting in a desperate journey across a bleak and empty American southwest. Here Billy (Skeet Ulrich) confronts his new reality in this harsh and broken-down trailer park we build on a remote desert plateau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700271-2GEJP63CXPUAY80IHSRU/nobody1.jpg Nobody's Baby Abandoned trailer of deceased UFO fanatic in which a desperate Billy (Skeet Ulrich) takes refuge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392610252353-I61TLXNJLY9PRAG07Q90/Scan2x.jpg Nobody's Baby Squalid interior of the abandoned UFO fanatic's trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699986-JL7DUP4DR9NEJMRNY7OX/nobaby3.jpg Nobody's Baby A reverse shot of the squalid interior of the abandoned UFO fanatic's trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700210-V80PA296SSQ2I84MHHNM/nobody2.jpg Nobody's Baby Sonny's (Matthew Modine) trailer, composed of four salvaged trailers melded together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392610404398-9V4DUIP5SFIVVVDGRQI9/Nobody001x.jpg Nobody's Baby Dog Havasu's (Gordon Tootoosis) trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536008856187-HLN7XCRXG3WHKN39ISIH/no-bdy-bby-1x.jpg Nobody's Baby A view of the wretched trailer park at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700262-TLCMF2KAKQ1TGGLTRO05/nobody5.jpg Nobody's Baby Sonny's (Matthew Modine) trailer interior, built on stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611144104-FKNNXDJIIHRQH4T4HR67/Nobody%27s-Baby_Title_01_02_00085x.jpg Nobody's Baby A view of the cast (Skeet Ulrich, Gary Oldman, Mary Steenburgen, Anna Gunn & Radha Mitchell) in Sonny's trailer interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611181381-BKJGSDWAZTB19EP6N6TC/Nobody%27s-Baby_Title_01_02_00096x.jpg Nobody's Baby Another view of the cast (Gary Oldman & Skeet Ulrich) in the interior of Sonny's (Matthew Modine) trailer stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536008837795-H96XNSTIOGK0ZA808ARP/no-bdy-bby-3x.jpg Nobody's Baby Matthew Modine entering Sonny's trailer Interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611209010-T4TAFN1Z5YHXCPZMIMI1/Nobody%27s-Baby_Title_01_02_00124x.jpg Nobody's Baby Another view of the cast (Matthew Modine, Anna Gunn, Radha Mitchell, Skeet Ulrich) in Sonny's trailer Interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536008959307-7Y1R6F5AXEJ7IZGNASST/no-bdy-bby-2x.jpg Nobody's Baby Estelle (Mary Steenburgen) in the kitchen/living room of Sonny's (Matthew Modine) trailer stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611313873-O4JNP5Q13AQ90OI8ZRSP/Nobody%27s-Baby_Title_01_02_00091x.jpg Nobody's Baby Signage and parking lot sale of slimy car salesman Norman Pinkney's (Ed O'Neill) Pontiac dealership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699971-A3N6O15VSJQVOKZPMPCX/nobody3x.jpg Nobody's Baby "Peerless Pawn" interior/exterior location. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700014-4RDG46HE6M1CH75EIW5S/nobody6.jpg Nobody's Baby Full dress of empty storefront to create Peerless Pawnshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700132-9QZW51JSHGN9CI3HCCYJ/nobody8.jpg Nobody's Baby A reverse view of the full-dress for Peerless Pawnshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536008838065-SA5NL9VTBYK14V9Q2P2M/no-bdy-bby-4x.jpg Nobody's Baby Buford (Gary Oldman) jams on a guitar during his robbery of the Peerless Pawnshop set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700130-TB0Z04MSZBLO8DB12XO7/nobody005.jpg Nobody's Baby Dust Devil Motel sign build and exterior dress of a seedy and remote desert motel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700244-H4OATIEY1ZM9FO9WC8ES/nobaby1.jpg Nobody's Baby Dust Devil Motel sign build and exterior dress of a seedy and remote desert motel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700160-AHZ7K8B1WWILIQSZQWGW/nobody006.jpg Nobody's Baby Lit up Dust Devil Motel sign on stage for "night" work. https://www.markhofeling.com/hsm1 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337639450-UHB45VSL7L5E74QSVKTV/DSC03455x.jpg High School Musical https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533923684-TWYX5TOKRA1MRZRPZRZP/DSC03408x.jpg High School Musical The first High School Musical, a movie that would set off a global phenomenon that is still going almost 20 years later, was made for a modest budget. So we decided it was cheaper to keep some attributes of Salt Lake City’s East high school rather than change them, such as the name and the school colors. We did, however, have enough money to add these graphics, planters, and fountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533973304-R66DMK5NF9LBK1DPNQBW/DSC03455x.jpg High School Musical We loved the bones of this fantastic public school cafeteria, it was perfect for staging big, Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers. But in its original form, it was far too bland for our idealized high school. Inspired by a recent trip to see the work of the great muralists of Mexico, I divided high school into three concepts and did a foam-cut mural for each; The Arts (top of frame), Athletics (center frame), and Academics (not pictured). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534008332-3JYZYQ3FGQ1DA1IGFVZQ/DSC03464x.jpg High School Musical Overhead view of the East High School cafeteria dressed for the "Status Quo" dance number. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534042334-UEXP77N93LI5FQPJ24GA/DSC03479x.jpg High School Musical Set pieces for the "Twinkle Town" musical the cast was preparing for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392534371795-LOU7PX53DD6IWJN15JTS/DSC03478-2x.jpg High School Musical The tree from the "Twinkle Town" musical the cast was preparing for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392606165772-XTU2T5XNSJS0SW1KGJMF/high-school-musigymX.jpg High School Musical Troy and Gabriella (Zach Efron and Vanessa Hudgens) dance in the finale "We're all in this Together". https://www.markhofeling.com/dadnapped daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392335153801-KYPZ7NV271UF2JD8VBII/DSC00039x.jpg Dadnapped https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401521868-8L1SDVLPAS9TQ3OVXL3P/IMGP0294-2x.jpg Dadnapped Dadnapped is a comedy about a young adult fiction author being kidnapped by superfans at a convention in an absurd small town and his daughter’s struggle to get him back. This is the main street of our Route-66-style, fictional town "Mercury". Here we added a third story, huge neon signage and facade details to the foreground "Merc" hotel, and a second story and signage to the background drugstore in this shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401660916-YZXZQ563X3ZQH45LEFUO/IMGP0298-2x.jpg Dadnapped We added a huge amount of period signage and custom neon to this old main street. Here is a street detail and a goofy pizza delivery sign overwhelming the tiny car. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401724489-5HPU4T2DSPW7IN2OVOOL/dadnapped%231-2x.jpg Dadnapped The dastardly hotel owner and the villain in our story, Merv (Jason Earles) has a Ratpack style swinging bachelor pad penthouse on the top floor of the "Merc" hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401758031-Y36N2XZ46ACKQ0SEUKJ6/DSC09988_2-2x.jpg Dadnapped The reverse of Merv's (Jason Earles) Penthouse stage set on top of the "Merc" hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401942441-RRUYGGPIFIG4J2KWZH36/DSC09995_2-2x.jpg Dadnapped View towards the circular bed in Merv's (Jason Earles) Penthouse stage set on top of the "Merc" hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392335119034-FG7QDRKVGKVIXZTYPX0S/DSC06039x.jpg Dadnapped One of the dozens of pieces of custom neon/signage we produced to make a more convincing Route 66 feel to our main street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392334995652-ASPPKON2SE731TAJ1CT5/DSC06038x.jpg Dadnapped The huge welcome to sign Mercury spanned our main street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1391401982187-19ORHTAUPLJ6M3TCDCJ3/DSC00039x.jpg Dadnapped A view of all the signage we built assembled in a studio for the purposes of a music video that was never shot. https://www.markhofeling.com/substitute3 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392423380203-WSRQ9V6LKXHGH0ZCWJ72/s31.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536016558620-1WBY2P206AJY1DF2CJKP/sub3winner-5.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Substitute 3: Winner Takes All is a continuation of the story of Mercenary Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams). Here is the opening scene with a cage where prisoners are kept prior to torture by the Serbian thugs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536016487033-UNS3X7GH6HYDMRWHAXQD/sub3winner-4.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Another view of the Serbian torture chamber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392614518847-TPJ1JL992XTQL6XO252M/s33x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Unsuspecting Serbian thugs in their deserted building encampment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536016527830-MY6RDECPHFRLZQK83UQM/sub3winner-6.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All American Mercenary Karl (Treat Williams) plots his escape from his animal cage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392614817366-DKI7D2EL8EF49L7RFGH4/s34x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Mercenary Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) comforts a badly beaten friend in our hospital set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615437105-1XHEUCI7ZRGDUF29XWLN/s37x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Lady assassin Andy (Claudia Christian) in her gritty boxing gym, stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615376203-5KVFDOAZYGD8GCTSG9ZK/s38x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Mercenary Karl (Treat Williams) visits assassin Andy (Claudia Christian) in her gritty boxing gym, stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615402743-63EEAD1B32TUWYLSJ93B/s36x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Mercenary Karl (Treat Williams) and his partner (James Black) enlist the help of technical snoop Ed (Frank Gerrish) in his squalid apartment, stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615123707-FSPUGFKI9JBAXIDBPPRQ/s35x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Technical snoop Ed (Frank Gerrish) in his customized surveillance van. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615038982-ONGI65PBNTMAKRU899OY/s39x.jpg The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All Another view of Ed (Frank Gerrish) in his tricked-out surveillance van. https://www.markhofeling.com/hsm2 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392336708094-LAIPA66013TJQH0MHDNP/DSC08929xx.jpg High School Musical 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392532896481-OP785X4XPWYITUPIP3J1/HSM2-3x.jpg High School Musical 2 High School Musical 2 finds our cast getting summer jobs and hanging out at the Lava Springs country club. Some of them work in the kitchen, pictured here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392532937157-6AMVNKPZ6HT31ZXD2ZG3/HSM2-1x.jpg High School Musical 2 Another view of the Lava Springs kitchen stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755697407-439TMRU66OHTKDJE90KH/htwo_1.jpg High School Musical 2 Lava Springs Country Club kitchen stage set built for the "Work It Out" dance number. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392596537013-E4WXKLDRB86EYM5HS76T/hsm_2_kitchencapx.jpg High School Musical 2 The cast including Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and Corbin Bleu performing “Work this Out” in the country club kitchen set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392532972210-FXR52LQSRBO64LB7J9IU/DSC08931x.jpg High School Musical 2 Model of kitchen build and adjoining rooms. Designing for choreography requires extremely thorough planning for the scale and placement of objects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392532995136-1O6ER5AUC6FZYB5J2NYH/DSC08936x.jpg High School Musical 2 Another view of the Lava Springs kitchen stage set model for the choreographers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533046398-YG67IN3YW04AXSJNQSTW/DSC09336x.jpg High School Musical 2 Wild stage and artificial rock pieces built into the existing clubhouse. The whole stage was a series of custom-made wagons that snugged up to the building and locked together. The thrust, or nose of the stage, the stairways, and the downstage rock pieces had to be removed after each night of filming to prevent the grass from dying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533079754-38D81Y9Y59NQDJTRW1XU/DSC09341x.jpg High School Musical 2 Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) rehearsal set for "You Are the Music In Me" reprise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533374655-ZP5CUZ7FO9N9DUDLHIJF/maxresdefault.jpg High School Musical 2 "The Music in Me" in progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533127910-KFIURM2RUXRIK8KBZOV6/HSM3149x.jpg High School Musical 2 Over-sized basketball floor graphics to create the "University of Albuquerque". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533170436-N9LFC1LLNK7X2NDDFUC8/DSC09323x.jpg High School Musical 2 Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) piano and pool cabanas for the "Fabulous" dance number. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533311075-Z0VWE3R7J66WDCERB639/DSC09977_8x.jpg High School Musical 2 Musical twins Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) and Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) perform "Fabulous" on the pool's pink grand piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755697280-25TNI932K9BCWJ2ECQTW/htwo_8.jpg High School Musical 2 Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) cocktail lime raft for "Fabulous". She floated in her giant "cocktail" on this lime slice and was surrounded by "ice cubes" we fashioned from inflatable clear vinyl ottomans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533230109-KNKX2LSG2ONNDUWA225F/DSC09240x.jpg High School Musical 2 Sharpay's (Ashley Tisdale) custom golf cart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533299285-014PX485VR2JHMUR65P1/DSC09279x.jpg High School Musical 2 The stage-set volcano for the very strange musical number "Humuhumu". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533424396-YS8TRDW5JPCO6QN1URU4/high_school_musical_2_profilelarge.jpg High School Musical 2 The cast of High School Musical 2 performs "What Time is it?" in front of East High. https://www.markhofeling.com/notarealpage3-1-1-1 daily 0.75 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1703364981521-4FXTZR97S8AY8QNQ8B30/DSC00382-z.jpg Buffalo Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392606913438-MCH7SH7T5ZHHZR6XA5IB/bd6x.jpg Buffalo Dreams We re-faced several buildings on an old main street to create a Santa Fe-style fictional, small New Mexico tourist town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392590752631-DDQL5I5N8W1XOUQ3NIFX/Buffalo-Dreams-2x.jpg Buffalo Dreams Another view of the small, fictional New Mexico tourist town we created. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392590811970-YY7D3ABBGTCDTYL4OU4T/buffdreams3x.jpg Buffalo Dreams This picture shows a view of a waterfall landing-pool "cheat" we built to match an existing natural waterfall in the Uinta mountains. Our hero (Reiley McClendon) is supposed to jump off a ledge into a gorgeous pool below, but the existing one was only a few feet deep. So we draped this outdoor pool in black, built a two-sided rock wall set and partially submerged it, used huge pumps to roil the water, and recreated the existing rock ledge to shoot him jumping and landing from above, then cut that into the footage from the natural waterfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392606942345-R0BKHMBEQYCO028GZ4PB/buffdreams5x.jpg Buffalo Dreams The cast of Buffalo Dreams. https://www.markhofeling.com/xmissionwindows daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392448343556-HWDX1GHKUEN1NF1EQO5P/3x.jpg XMission Window Display https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701865-1KKKTGS9YDVXN5VSAJ5Y/xmisdisplay1.jpg XMission Window Display Permanent window display for XMission Internet "Data Center" Salt Lake City, Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701855-ITMY69NHI6S8UAGV5UZP/xmisdisplay2.jpg XMission Window Display A closer view of the Xmission window. https://www.markhofeling.com/armydarkness daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392424162545-TNSOYRGWB5CT142R0FO2/ArmyOfDarkness1x.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702880-8LAALJ8Z4JC0GYQGFQPZ/aod1.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] As a puppeteer and lab tech working for KNB EFX, I helped with the fabrication of several elements for Army of Darkness. Here one of KNB's iconic puppets wears one of my armor pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702893-20G8AGFBMMSNDG4GPRZ7/aod2.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] In addition to puppeteering, I was tasked with dreaming up and building armor, weapons, and instruments for the Army of the Dead. I made three puppets into undead Scotsmen and gave them these bagpipes, which would inflate/deflate when the puppeteer blew into them from below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702921-D6XNGRYPID6L6MH3JD6G/aod3.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] A pile of rotting helmets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702925-73PH3Y7H34Y7TL7LGV02/aod4.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] A xylophone playing the xylophone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1585788351537-RPRTT2NY5OD9JTSVVUZ5/EPSON013-X.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] A bone-a-phone percussion instrument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1585788348184-DWS2DL9WAC1FHT3A9JH0/EPSON012-X.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] Yours truly demonstrating the bagpipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702951-OZYGDTO7S1ZBCU6QQKHI/aod7x.jpg Army Of Darkness [Lab Technician/Puppeteer] https://www.markhofeling.com/myfuturegraphics daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429496157-SYIG73TH6CR7GTVAK9NG/Strange-Times-10x.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702235-TGRQHTACV82I284V1DWM/strange_cover1.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) In order to create a credible top layer of "Newsroom" set dressing, I wrote these preposterous front pages. Note that we took our inspiration for the schlocky, chaotic newsroom from the stark primary colors of the "Strange Times" masthead (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702079-RYPWI5ENZE5IBRWOPJDW/strange_cover4.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702059-9CC8Q8B11LNCQCJ4PULS/strange_cover6.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702084-B9AHC3GM1WLAMVK7NZDP/strange_cover5.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702221-O5I7R98Q3M6I9C5HQT5T/strange_cover2.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Rico Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702290-H3N4P9GGRWKPS5YJ9FV4/strange-cover+11.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702109-LJ44NHAZEP4WBODCNYF3/strange_cover3.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702253-2KUXFHB5IOLN4HJVSYIO/strange-cover-10.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702019-QVAQQ207SE9JLAKOSTYV/strange_cover7.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702040-AXLGFT4LSVBPLW1FBLMF/strange-cover-9.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702182-XE9LXNCEAH3FIH032RC2/strange-cover-12.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702003-NH109HG8RMX5RZHNJTLM/strange-cover-8.jpg My Future Boyfriend (Graphics) (All graphics created by Richard Olson and Lisa Yeiser). https://www.markhofeling.com/airbnbhaus daily 0.75 2015-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392447539715-RF0JOCN3Z1AGMY0KM31Q/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom06.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429764798-EIV85Z2TGMA9DK3IJ1AT/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom01.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 I was lucky enough to get a call from Salt Lake's WOW Atelier to work with them on creating a Sundance hospitality and event space for Airbnb. In just over three weeks we took a run-down, abandoned Mexican restaurant and turned it into 7,000 square feet of mid-century, Scandinavian-inspired chill-out and recharge space for weary movie goers. Here is a shot of the totally fresh new look of the exterior facade and patio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429757038-GNOFXCH1XR2TMMQDXE3B/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom02.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 We turned the nasty purple dungeon of the main floor into a cozy drawing room by day, intimate performance space by night for events like The Moth Radio Hour and stand-up comedy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429769864-IF1S3MCP1U9X8C71IVB3/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom04.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 We created this sunny, inviting family kitchen over the ruin of a former short-order grill. It was the nucleus of the "Haus", free coffee by day, hopping bar by night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429774558-3WSAH0B2VGKF0Q4WYFWN/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom03.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 We lined the dreadful staircase with cabinetry and cubbies full of household comforts to cover the strange 80's architecture in a layer of warmth and homeyness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429781067-32TSAMEBDZF7JKEGZTT5/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom07.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The comfortable, casual sitting area. Framed photos of some of Airbnb's many cool properties dot the walls among other nostalgic pieces of art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429778112-HU23HS0ABANG0FW6Q6EL/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom06.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The second floor took on the idea of an oversized family dining space. We built a dozen custom dining tables, every plank of which was stained in a different hue of a wintery, muted palette prior to assembly. While I love the common table dining experience, I felt like it needed a new idea. I cut the ends of the tables at angles, creating a subtle zigzag that reflected the herringbone wood patterns we applied to other surfaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429794237-106SYNR1UGIBHMK65JYW/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom08.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The WOW guys conceived of this central column to create some design continuity between the jumble of shape, form, and period in the architecture. We custom-stained this wood in the same frosty palette of the tables. The visual impact of the shallow diagonal combined with the beauty of the antique canoe accomplished the desired harmony perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429788258-LZNRW94E9PHPAHDNZVTX/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom09.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The artist's studio we created became a real hit with visitors. So much so that the Airbnb folks had to scramble to keep it stocked with art supplies for people to sketch and paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392842332986-JQC1R0Y8DDGIRNWW0SZV/IMG_1345x.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 My greatest peeve with Sundance venues and events is the problem with the piles of coats, scarves, hats, and bags that turn the most beautifully designed venue into a yard sale at a refugee camp. So I wanted to create coat racks that were intriguing enough that people might use them. Riffing on the cabiny vibe we were going for, I ordered boxes of hatchets and made these racks. They did the trick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429810753-QHS205HKPLGZ3SOD1XI2/IMG_0107.JPG Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 Another view of our hatchet racks. Photo: Joe Anthony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429809573-DT3TYDYT53U8FO8EBRUX/airbnb-haus-sundance-festival-designboom10Jeffrey+Abramson.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The exterior sign. Photo: Jeffrey Abramson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392429752287-QE5Q9TTIPOANQ62Y0R12/4f90119a7e7a11e3a6680e0368da678b_8.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 The formerly purple and green wreck of an exterior turned into Sundance 2014's most popular spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1393873023823-TPP87BCIPGOKOEAA9X52/IMAG0064x.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 This and the following pictures show the terrible state the unused venue was in when we walked into it. This shows what became the cozy sitting area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1393873023493-TPT5Z7SYPS4HR0PUWYPO/IMAG0053x.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 This was what became the downstairs drawing-room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1393873022891-EAT3H57W88ON9AQHUXTO/IMAG0037x.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 This became the artists studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1393873023164-NP25R57FQ3G2BDDS30BK/IMAG0043x.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2014 And this area became the upstairs dining room. The canoe would later be hung where the steel "X" is pictured in the stairwell. https://www.markhofeling.com/goldfever daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392685741624-WVOBIGV4T272Y8UKEXZI/Gold-Fever-VFX-breakdown.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583848420-LUHQABKPUDWXJQQ6JYTN/Gold-Fever-VFX-breakdown.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] I art directed the mini-series Gold Fever for production designer Ernesto Solo. It centered around the agony and the ecstasy of the California Gold Rush of 1849. This is a shot of the grim camp along the American River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583877749-WQE0S16F3ZZOJUWYE662/IMG_0445x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] Built on the Upper Provo Falls, this brand new lumber camp was the setting for the original discovery of gold in the American River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583861970-FH8QN0V9EFPJB1FFZ6GE/IMG_0444x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] A fine example of the dozens and dozens of encampments we built all over northern Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583904267-YZ34V22Q9UUPWMLS4L0I/IMG_0453x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] This was the setting for an outbreak of cholera in a particularly luckless camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583902889-P63QHSSESSU39BM5G5XA/IMG_0457x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] This is a goldwashing machine, a device we extrapolated from just a few meager images. Extremely expensive contraptions such as these promised to do the work of hundreds of men panning for gold but ultimately didn't work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583890455-ITPYR48MYOUJZVH6R9DK/IMG_0452x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] This is our version of the deadly quicksilver machine. We were unable to find any good visual research on this one. So we made our best guess from written descriptions. It essentially used a reservoir of mercury to separate gold nuggets from silt, which miners then cleaned with their mouths. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392583912716-UFHWF12WA36W3G1HARZD/IMG_0462x.jpg Gold Fever [Art Director] Some of the many hand-painted signs we prepared waiting to go to set. https://www.markhofeling.com/reddoorslc daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392616187810-OQ2SJCDQR3IO52JHCNUI/red_door-reflection.jpg The Red Door https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392683674155-JVF9DYSD18FH7SHJ84XY/DSCN0398x.jpg The Red Door Louise Hannig, owner of the Red Door, asked me for some ideas as she neared completion of her now famous bar. I suggested overwhelming the small space with an oversized graphic of Che. Louise loved it, and a whole identity for the bar was born. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392683893251-IBEJZ3B97MGUBC71SV9O/red-door-monkeyX.jpg The Red Door After being open a while, Louise felt a certain corner of the bar was lacking a point of focus. I kicked around a hundred ideas until it finally occurred to me - A religious shrine to a sainted monkey king - It was almost too obvious. Although I understand people argue about the exact species of the monkey, only I know it's true origins. A secret I will take to my grave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392683718843-VFTG3J5D9W9XHUCWQE2V/20131014_205326-2x.jpg The Red Door The Monkey King in his corner perch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392588974420-9325QB2HBJOU28LUQTFA/red-door-crowded.jpeg The Red Door A typically busy night at the Red Door. https://www.markhofeling.com/gofigure daily 0.75 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1703364666776-D0JZVSPAXS6VFHYJT213/DSC01370_1z.jpg Go Figure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392607130879-JOYXQRN0W792AIDT5DUN/DSC01370_1x.jpg Go Figure Go figure is the story of a young figure skater that ends up on the hockey team. So a lot of time was spent in various ice rinks. Here is one such arena, a really sad municipal ice rink made fabulous with the addition of some color.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392607687433-GYGC2H0ESNCIEKF0HVQ4/ogden-2-2x.jpg Go Figure This photo shows a major national figure skating championship. We painted the hockey rink pure white, removed all the protective glass, and created huge wintery graphics to drape the walls and beautify the dasher-boards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608385139-ILGZ0QFD5KKMN88NMAAA/DSC01323x.jpg Go Figure Part of the story centered around the idea of female hockey players becoming figure skaters and vice versa. Here we see a bland municipal hockey rink given some color and light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608354209-LN868ZF7OPFHDAMPY5QO/DSC01314x.jpg Go Figure Huge eagle graphic frozen into the hockey rink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698607-V3X8AGUYN4XBGTKURUQJ/gf3.jpg Go Figure Girls boarding school dormitory hallway stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608212141-HS0PFDKG46413TK2AGS1/hallway-3-2x.jpg Go Figure A reverse of a girl's boarding school dormitory stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608258383-XOAXDL4U7FQKI2JVUQAV/DSC01393x.jpg Go Figure This is Natasha's (Cristine Rose) office. She is a strict, severe Russian figure skating coach. We built this on the rise above the skating rink so she would have a view of the skaters below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608292713-Y7ZH5EF6NHFM7BG1ZP3G/DSC01392x.jpg Go Figure A tinkerer little brother's battle bot we made which loses a fight to a Zamboni. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608319528-DM72VII0WRAG44FNYUH7/DSC01386_1x.jpg Go Figure Another view of the ill-fated battle bot. https://www.markhofeling.com/dontlook daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422739012-6XMI3WDLZNHJGLBN5H83/dontlookwideshot002x.jpg Don't Look Under The Bed [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702968535171-RYRZGB7149H9EX342VCR/dontlookwideshot002-3-X.jpg Don't Look Under The Bed [Art Director] My principal task as art director on Don’t Look Under the Bed was the design and fabrication of "Boogie-World", A nightmarish dreamscape under a child's bed that is haunted by the classic Boogieman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702968102103-U4J2KRKGHJ9RTWPJC5MT/DontLookUnderB-2-X.jpg Don't Look Under The Bed [Art Director] Using rings cut from discarded carpet, we created a floor of mossy, multi-colored funk in this oversized under-the-bed nightmare-scape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702968100179-IEG6ZKS45PGC839QHSB6/dontlookundera-2-X.jpg Don't Look Under The Bed [Art Director] Among a multitude of oversized prop/set dressing items was this giant stuffed rabbit toy. Others included a giant 9-volt battery, a baby doll, a storybook, and a huge paper lunch sack with a moldering queen-sized peanut butter and jelly sandwich. https://www.markhofeling.com/touched408 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392423554894-FHH6QQTGH4I80EQ701H6/TBA002x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 408, "Sandcastles" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392613074294-IY8JFY6NWWJB72OIMRIS/TBA002x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 408, "Sandcastles" I was not the series production designer on Touched by an Angel, but they did need to shoot two overlapping episodes one season to get caught up. Diane Millet, the regular series designer, brought me in for these extra episodes. Here is a women's prison infirmary stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392613103083-P4SL12B4795GHRPICQVH/TBA001x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 408, "Sandcastles" A reverse shot of the women's prison infirmary. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392613134815-MAGR9ZKUC4M72X2ZCV7U/TBA003x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 408, "Sandcastles" Another scene called for an accident in a machine shop. We built this post-industrial accident set for an angel to rescue a wounded man from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392613157072-F9X4WIBK5UF25430V40I/TBA004x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 408, "Sandcastles" Another view of the devastated machine shop. https://www.markhofeling.com/conexpress daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392421891905-1DMHIAO5H7LBI445JU9U/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00001x.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151407710-D2Q3ESDBJM0MBFK2HCKI/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.54.42+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express Con Express is an action thriller that involves a terrorist moving some ill-gotten, Russian nerve agent on a train. Overhead shot of the Customs Enforcement office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699699-KUISZKUGODXLZ1YQRCM0/c+e_title_01_02_00021.jpg Con Express Another area in the Customs Enforcement office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609739940-DT24YJB809PZ5XPQXFHM/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00008x.jpg Con Express Build-out for a warehouse gunfight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609762624-YOGIIMSTK1F1MQJ5A2M8/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00011x.jpg Con Express More warehouse dress/build-out for a gunfight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609796664-5BLFMEH0SKI4ADBAAOMG/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00018x.jpg Con Express FBI's Alaskan field office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609869940-J7BH4U2MFYV1J6ZO76HO/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00016x.jpg Con Express Anton Simeonov (Arnold Vosloo) awaits interrogation in the FBI’s Alaska field office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609984005-BB83OHR7O7NPL9BUS8RQ/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00014x.jpg Con Express Practical train car modified for "hazardous material" transport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392610140666-DJUECA2SZGGCAMSAZTLF/Con-Express_Title_01_02_00020x.jpg Con Express Interior of practical train car modified for "hazardous materials" and built-out with wall panels for squibs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151405121-3H9KU4YI970KR6X65XO3/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.59.45+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151405305-BSIU74F79H79XS3A0MMN/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.53.22+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151405942-PW58EEP81DMLVSS9JKNJ/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.51.05+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151406118-OMP4SRCYBQJ9HKHOU0XG/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.59.19+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151406882-FN4MJN2C90NGPQYJZ2OX/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.51.38+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151407404-0VXWZF4LC7VNDA0H79UC/Screenshot+2023-12-23+at+3.58.49+PM-Enhanced-SRz-1.jpg Con Express https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609915357-438I0M1IJ68JV74IC4MA/ConExpressAx.jpg Con Express A scene in Con Express called for the hi-jacking of a diesel locomotive. Actual cabs of diesel locomotives are tiny and cramped, so we built this one on an inner-tube gimbal, large enough to accommodate a driver and three hijackers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609948615-K863GZD0B7XSUHQ7XQB9/Dscf0015x.jpg Con Express Another view of the gimbaled locomotive cab stage set. https://www.markhofeling.com/thanks4nothing daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392617462221-EUN45H34TX515FYHLYHQ/DSC04906x.jpg Thanks For Nothing (Thanksgiving Dinner Party) https://www.markhofeling.com/readandweep daily 0.75 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1703364642466-6WBKM7937MH8M6X9ZYFV/dance4z.jpg Read It And Weep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533555761-EERYJ7NUO1KZ19SGVZAB/dance1x.jpg Read It And Weep Read it and weep is a contemporary teen comedy set in a high school. This is the school’s "Deep Blue Sea" dance set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533581940-A1GSMDZ5Q4RWLZCHKCLU/dance4x.jpg Read It And Weep Kelp-spitting, break-away whale, suspended from the ceiling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533668586-KCADUY2353NEQOLIKEI6/dance3x.jpg Read It And Weep "Deep Blue Sea" bandstand with spinning dolphins and undulating waves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533695593-25XTIK7S4URKXJJGH0N6/DSC04983x.jpg Read It And Weep Jamie's bedroom stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392533725054-64DO5VY99MVNE496S9AU/DSC04988x.jpg Read It And Weep Another view of Jamie's bedroom stage set. https://www.markhofeling.com/therunner daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422609903-01EGO3KOZID05BNS35GH/RNR_01_Title_1_00040x.jpg The Runner [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952374507-2R6RAN7VF6NHNHA4793C/RNR_01_Title_1_00040-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] The Runner is a drama about hard luck gamblers who run cash to sportsbooks for the ruthless super-gambler Deepthroat (John Goodman). This is Deepthroat's villainous lair/command center we built in an old auto parts warehouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952366925-XGECZPTJK8VIHWBYXW70/RNR_01_Title_1_00004-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Another view of the evil Deepthroat's (John Goodman) lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952370764-GTPQREIKLGW13VCL1B6Z/RNR_01_Title_1_00030-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Another view of Deepthroat's (John Goodman) lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952362665-PKR5RH9KM2RG6JXYR70Z/RNR_01_Title_1_00002-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Deepthroat (John Goodman) at the command center in his lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952367098-IDGO5CAYWX7FE1JZZGS5/RNR_01_Title_1_00016-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952364681-DXKOGOQUH9PZQASYJMZ2/RNR_01_Title_1_00003-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] This is a view of the huge casino sportsbook we built. It was designed to match an actual casino in Wendover, Nevada, which we used for the main casino floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952370241-HEEC9I3ZHKTUL7IQWL4U/RNR_01_Title_1_00023-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Another view of the casino sportsbook set we built on a stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702955356704-EJ97GXH3K5PUAWXOYZ85/RNR_01_Title_1_00028-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Edward (Ron Eldard) and 477 (Bokeem Woodbine) enter the sports book casino stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702955353037-0W8DMYK67Y1IAM7UR7G3/RNR_01_Title_1_00022-Enhanced-SR-2+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] A detail showing the racing mural and betting counter at the front of our sportsbook stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702955358801-2D02GGHNDKQYJ730YSXK/RNR_01_Title_1_00046-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] A shot of Edward (Ron Eldard) at the betting tables in our casino sportsbook stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702955356787-K6YUL39UTLMD0IPBP8FA/RNR_01_Title_1_00042-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Edward (Ron Eldard) watching his fortunes slip away at the casino sportsbook betting tables. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952372273-U5CU2XCN8GIAL9R98JW5/RNR_01_Title_1_00031-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Edward's (Ron Eldard) crummy Vegas gambler's apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702955353260-QOJVQCN4AXKXNDPICPHX/RNR_01_Title_1_00032-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Karina (Courteney Cox) in the kitchen of Edward's crummy Vegas apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952373324-LJGEWQYTD9O9Z7D0RDGS/RNR_01_Title_1_00033-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Karina (Courteney Cox) in the kitchen of Edward's crummy Vegas apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952375625-7YQFJD63PYW9IHQC496V/RNR_01_Title_1_00044-Enhanced-SR+%281%29.jpg The Runner [Art Director] Another view of Karina (Courteney Cox) in the living room of Edward's crummy Vegas apartment stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952376538-HYWCIJZC6DI4QMEBYO8M/RNR_engineered+1-upscaled.jpg The Runner [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702952377336-O48E1BT8N3ZYUOWKMCPZ/RNR_engineered+3-upscaled.jpg The Runner [Art Director] https://www.markhofeling.com/objects daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392428159668-KVHZSQ21TXB4SJ37N1AS/aviation-turbine-above-mark-hofeling.jpeg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392427510193-VWCJXQ61FRZWEEQXEBM4/aviation-turbine-above-mark-hofeling.jpeg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design I recently partnered with an aircraft services company to create Skyforge Industries. We have been digging into their vast cache of commercial jet parts to create minimal, honest furniture pieces that show the utilitarian beauty of the retired parts. Here is one of our first prototypes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392427509291-RJPMJAO7EK4F6OH23CL7/aviation-turbine-table-side-mark-hofeling.jpeg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Another view of our prototype MD-80 turbine dining table. More prototypes coming soon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392842211928-FPQS4AYSY8P3GU13KC2G/IMG_1337x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design I was invited to co-design and build an amazing lounge at Sundance 2014 for Airbnb by Salt Lake's incredible WOW Atelier. I designed some of the details for the space, like these dining tables and benches. Playing on the salvaged wood idea, I wanted to evoke a seaside, salt-washed Scandinavian feel, like tables made from an old boathouse on the fjord. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392842210369-OX4TTYEDZSJ3NMGGK8N9/IMG_1383x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design For the Airbnb Haus hospitality venue at Sundance 2014, we made enough tables to seat 120 people for a single dinner. I individually stained each plank in our cool wintery palette before they were assembled into tables. We wanted to do beer-garden style common tables, but I felt like we needed to give the idea an update, so I cut the ends of the tables into shallow angles, so when we put them together they made a subtle zig-zag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392842210364-PERZQYX0GAV0126TTHWP/IMG_1345x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Another detail I designed for the Airbnb Haus 2014 was these coat racks. The cold climate of the Sundance festival means tons of coats and bags. I wanted to entice people to hang their coats rather than throw them on the furniture. Playing on the cabin vibe, I ordered hatchets off the internet and we assembled them into these units. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392842209216-9R5MHMDM31R8AC1HTWV5/IMG_1365x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Another ax murderer's coat rack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514629065-GQAYC71LNFIGPM3I5L3J/DSC04813.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design These are my Atomic Pile table lamps. The stacks are made from salvaged hygrometers (instruments for measuring moisture in the soil) I bought them for $15 each at a salvage place. I took them apart, had the aluminum stripped and polished, and built these steel bases for them. This is what the hygrometers looked like before the project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514745701-6XM2VQALU2PNHNU34LPE/DSC04851.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Another shot of the Atomic Pile table lamps. I think the 11" bulbs poking out the top give them a nice Frankenstein's lab flair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514683630-BH6SD0FYE4WOS5E6JR5E/DSC01752.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design George Washington chairs, made from flea-market granny chairs reupholstered with $2 a yard Washington State nylon flags from a blemished roll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514864568-OWIX9QZW9LX2MOSM6K09/DSC01791.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Korean war era, salvaged 500 lb. bomb-tails modified for succulent container gardens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515045479-AUEKV093QYY66TZIP4R4/DSC01852.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Spring chairs using 95% recycled materials. Springs are salvaged Second World War heavy truck springs, seats are salvaged 3-form plastic from a restaurant remodeling, square tube steel salvaged from struck movie-set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515090419-PX0VCAFNBMUTJSPHU2MK/DSC01763.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Dining table lamp, made from two salvaged commercial light-cans and cross-reed glass lenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515601183-N311ZQYP8Q3ZWISXD4ZJ/DSC01793.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Underside of the dining table lamp, showing the suspended glass lenses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515455968-V1TST38IAMSCLWOIMEDC/DSC01771.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Coat rack, made from salvaged antique gas pump handles and black steel pipe and fittings. Mounted on a cement filled tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515775352-OS06BYO4LTGZF6SL48Z2/DSC01840.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Coffee table, built from salvaged steel bar-grate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515912842-XWXDZ99BF5EJV71NTO2S/DSC01824.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Floor lamp, made from a rectangular plywood base box and salvaged 1960's department store, ceiling-mounted light fixtures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392515959917-PT5M5IL3A2W9AKWMU4JY/DSC01826.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Opium side tables. I call them that because of the poppy-bud silhouette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516170799-WTZ9IW66F5LA6PY6WWL1/DSC01830.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Floor lamps, made from salvaged 1920's automotive headlight housings and custom steel bases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516253713-QZQUC4BLTOH9ZNPU0G45/DSC01832.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Detail of the beautiful 1920's automotive head light housing and it's intact glass lens, now turning purple with age. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516302799-WWUY1MZRL4FXRWXPCSHT/DSC01845.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Custom liquor cabinet, made from a salvaged seismograph housing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516340515-JC858F2H5MZTSGLG41CT/DSC01804.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design "Candelabra" light, made from four strips of high-frequency neon and chemist's clamps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516465488-T7H7H6HQXRID2BW5HKTU/DSC01753.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Shelving system. A midnight raid on a steel scrapyard procured scrapped I-beams, which I sliced into short sections to create the uprights that hold up the salvaged ply and angle-iron shelves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516506451-698ORW232DS1XZXSI5XP/DSC01754.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design A closer look at the "liberated" I-beam uprights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516620778-K2Y1844TVI68Z7ETI46A/DSC01814.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design "Blamps", my nickname for these sleek, beautiful stairway pendant lamps I made from salvaged recoilless rifle test shells. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392516764829-J81HSXGCYUP18TS229OW/DSC01810.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design A shot showing the cool dappled light effect made by the "Blamp". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392531358080-F84X1G11X5EZFCZCIFPN/DSC04692x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design This strange, Zeplin-like dining room or desk light is actually two 1970's, Colonial-style porch sconces I found at a second-hand store. I stripped away the faux, decorative bits and found I could reconfigure them because of universal bolts and threaded holes used to assemble them. I removed the glass in what became the top half and made aluminum pieces that reflect the light downward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392531386621-GTP11XUSPK5T87JFCGUF/DSC04698x.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design A clearer view of the inside of my Zeplin light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702631-8RBJLF09T8AYDELN0NOS/hand-painted-sign-remix-1.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design I salvaged a bunch of hand-painted, period signs we used on a movie from the trash, cut them into 15"x15" squares, and tiled two walls of my friend's graphic design office with them. They were thrilled with the result, and the feedback from clients has been great. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702405-7LEMIX4HD0TTNX579NA9/hand-painted-sign-remix-2.jpg Furniture, Object & Lighting Design Another view of the salvaged, chopped-up sign collage I made for a graphic design firm. https://www.markhofeling.com/addressunknown daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392423882551-19AU7ST3I5CJYRBTUELW/Unknown001x.jpg Address Unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615696356-4FFN7L5QDB8MVV80H6D1/Unknown001x.jpg Address Unknown Abandoned mine shaft set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615722068-KZIR1T9W3046L33VGGUM/Unknown002x.jpg Address Unknown A detail of the abandoned mine shaft stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701598-U3CYAM2EKEE8C5622RNH/unknown_2.jpg Address Unknown https://www.markhofeling.com/seeyouinmydreams daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522037625-09N0X5TSU4PU2X8JTKOG/SeeYouInMyDreamsx.jpg See You In My Dreams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608518465-SS70XIW9T679BML8HFBG/Seeyouinmydreams004-1x.jpg See You In My Dreams See You in my Dreams was adapted from an excellent Sam Shepard story and tells the tale of a poor and increasingly desperate family from 1943 to1973. What starts as an ideal young American family deteriorates into joblessness, poverty, and alcoholism. Here is the kitchen/living room of their working-class farmhouse during good times...... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608554617-GU1X7V3IFQ2TUJ6ZNTU6/Seeyouinmydreams005-1x.jpg See You In My Dreams Here is the same room after Mother (Marcia Gay Harden) and son (Will Estes) leave after years of abuse and neglect. Father Joe (Aidan Quinn) hunkers down in one room as his life further deteriorates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698735-UCSAWERHOF2S43JNVOKV/see006.jpg See You In My Dreams Years later we find Joe (Aidan Quinn) the shattered World War II veteran living out his last days in a wretched tenement hotel awash in the debris of his former life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608626543-08REMORDLRJ8JLBR30HZ/Seeyouinmydreams007-1x.jpg See You In My Dreams A reverse of Joe's (Aidan Quinn) squalid tenement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608663398-DFH8SUH6PCCJOVF2TGZX/bottlehouse001x.jpg See You In My Dreams The "Bottle House" was a multi-staged set piece set in the bleak desert that helped describe the arc from youthful optimism to neglect to eventual abandonment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608704544-X3ZTWVT4MWYNSBAH8AU4/Seeyouinmydreams008x.jpg See You In My Dreams A dress for a low-end early 1960's liquor store. https://www.markhofeling.com/paperbrigade daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422961375-EZ27LP8KU90WUM4W3IWF/Paper001x.jpg The Paper Brigade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612432006-J4OFAVS1QMGECUV6GRJO/Paper001x.jpg The Paper Brigade The Paper Brigade was a family movie about a paperboy and his adventures. This is a huge treehouse that had to be installed without driving a single nail into the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612455209-DK6GMUDDMO5UD6JNMT3Y/Paper002x.jpg The Paper Brigade Another aspect of the treehouse, showing the working ball turret complete with double fire extinguisher water tanks that the mischievous boys who built the treehouse use to attack passers-by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612485681-TKMXWBMY677K6VE61D2E/Paper003x.jpg The Paper Brigade Detail of the ball turret inside the treehouse. https://www.markhofeling.com/lifeisruff daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521757696-DY6CB1RCDR4CP70DTOVH/DSC01825.JPG Life Is Ruff https://www.markhofeling.com/jumpingforjoy daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422228150-NC0Y6OKEROY71M7YQDUF/J-for-J001x.jpg Jumping For Joy https://www.markhofeling.com/christmascupidgraphics daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392448390169-YAR57QFH871QEQLAPCEZ/Cheerless1x.jpg Christmas Cupid (Graphics) https://www.markhofeling.com/pcmine daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392428914967-LJD5S0SWLJ53IB1UV68M/Silver-mine002x.jpg Park City Silver Mine Adventure (Haunted Mine Entrance) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701963-UWDE3EO52WTZCCKAAT3F/silvermine.jpg Park City Silver Mine Adventure (Haunted Mine Entrance) "Rickety" railway and careening minecart full of skeleton miners for the entrance of Park City Silver Mine's haunted Halloween event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701991-BYX3KPR5PEL7A23BRDAW/silvermine2.jpg Park City Silver Mine Adventure (Haunted Mine Entrance) Detail of the runaway skeleton mine cart for the entrance of Park City Silver Mine's Halloween event. https://www.markhofeling.com/touched406 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392423740405-7GQO8KY3D8LW1R1LVTCO/TouchedByAnAngel1x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 406, "The Pact" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701387-Z9E6K42LGWQ264ZNTUTD/tab1.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 406, "The Pact" This episode featured teenage girls at a summer camp. This stage set was their cabin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615588023-TJKCGU7T5YKYJHH5HY9F/Scan4x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 406, "The Pact" Detail of the girl's summer-camp cabin stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615615652-ECV7BCQ7019JIQV2GHBG/Scan5x.jpg Touched By An Angel: Episode 406, "The Pact" Detail of the girl's summer-camp cabin stage set. https://www.markhofeling.com/paradise daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392421115968-6FHAJ9WQJ1NU5NVBWFRP/p00.jpg Paradise [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698740-TDHI967C5H2PCHL6R2A7/p00.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Paradise is a Showtime pilot about the world of big-money televangelists and centers on the story of former astronaut Bobby Paradise (David Strathairn). Here Bobby preaches to a stadium on his underlit, circular stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698855-7HAMXNBOUTTKX1YDL3Q2/p002.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Wide shot of the underlit stage in a stadium full of the faithful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698836-1ERA9JZ6BVFX4Y0IKIP3/p0001.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Stadium skybox stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698778-EJLKYJKOMUHEI9W0V500/p032.jpg Paradise [Art Director] The Paradise Ministry’s (David Strathairn) conference room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698959-DI0XWIRY7IQ3ZTVITYCA/p046.jpg Paradise [Art Director] The trashy set for Give me a Fucking Break, the garish shock jock's (Rick Hoffman) tv studio set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698944-FXSZRKOVQUJ6V3AIMIVZ/p047.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Another view of the shock jock's (Rick Hoffman) studio set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698927-AU9SVQ6T3BJRUGXPMQDH/p051.jpg Paradise [Art Director] The preacher/former astronaut (David Strathairn) dreams he finds his younger self trapped in his space capsule deep beneath the ocean. Here we draped an indoor diving pool in black, then built a water-resistant capsule wall for the gag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698775-KK8JTKVZI908ABQ9TVC8/pb.jpg Paradise [Art Director] This miniature space capsule was placed on a dry "seafloor" set fogged-up and surrounded in black to allow us to shoot his approach to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698805-HV2L7IOCO79IX1YAVYB2/p010.jpg Paradise [Art Director] A view of the miniature space capsule resting on the "Seafloor". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698809-R933WDBPFVH0BT87ZGY2/p008.jpg Paradise [Art Director] A remote, abandoned "Mexican" airstrip shack and gate build. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698879-ZTA1Y7UJMKY8CR526YWK/p076.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Cheap Mexican variety store dress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698871-BRUW70MO2OTXIGHG73I7/p081.jpg Paradise [Art Director] Another view of a cheap Mexican variety store dress. https://www.markhofeling.com/edgeofamerica daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392421555395-7X77IETVYIH07UDT8YG8/Edge_Of_America_Title_01_01_00001x.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151809035-BNJWOE41L0WET9ZPDJ6K/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.13.24%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151809839-5EJZELU2I3IY8GSIMUMM/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.14.08%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151810484-A17YKHSAWQ6IOZTA8L2Q/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.15.28%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Mr. Williams (James McDaniel) English classroom on the Three Nations reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151811871-H8FW7YO8NVFQTKRBX945/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.16.04%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Crane shot over Cuch's (Wes Studi) Garage on the edge of the Three Nations reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151815664-MZB3UNT69H1II6YYN7MI/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.17.32%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Liquor store just over the line of the Three Nations Indian reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392608981064-68FR1O65TTEBB8VN8K0B/E-of-America003x.jpg Edge Of America Hospital room in the Three Nations Medical Clinic stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151815692-4LOM73FEY2XN2SQT93LN/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.18.58%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Mr. Williams (James McDaniel) recuperating after a major car accident and Dr. Toomey (Steve Burleigh) in the Three Nations Medical Clinic stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706152303805-R99QQS9FZ7C40XIJRABP/Edge_Of_America_Title_01_01_00004x.jpg Edge Of America Mr. Williams lonely and wretched trailer deep in the emptiness of the Three Nations Indian Reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706152375977-1O528FNU491TXU8O2L1D/Edge_Of_America_Title_01_01_00007x.jpg Edge Of America Stage set interior of Mr. Williams trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151819631-GEK9RU9IF9CRE1YX0PM2/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.24.55%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America The "living room" in Mr. William's (James McDaniel) trailer interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151818895-Z8YGOAL0U1MSKUC96P0N/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.24.14%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Another view of Mr. Williams's (James McDaniel) wretched trailer interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151824157-6VJIADD59JLSFG2PSC1M/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.32.12%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Interior of the Three Nations High School low power radio station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151820676-NT00XQY1WXAQH7RN1ERS/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.34.19%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Cuch's (Wes Studi) house, next to his garage on the edge of the Three Nations Indian reservation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151817675-YVLCKNCTRGKOPV0VNX6H/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.23.25%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151818166-7F78CYLYYOU05GUSB539/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.23.40%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Cuch's (Wes Studi) Garage getting into the Christmas spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151825845-16HEFM5LUXFBEB48K864/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.42.23%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America Cheap 1980's motel room interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151823182-TX5B5NZ6MQ49AJ7FUQZU/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.43.25%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1706151825278-VM263TNV3XQU6D4JZVZC/Screenshot+2023-12-22+at+6.38.47%E2%80%AFPM.jpg Edge Of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699486-URAJ4DV5LFRK4X1UYY3N/edgAM29.jpg Edge Of America The cast of Edge of America. https://www.markhofeling.com/justadream daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392421747132-ZI86LR22J5PISA9XZ8VL/JustADream6x.jpg Just A Dream https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609374294-KF43RHR9TR4Q57CMW7TM/JustADream6x.jpg Just A Dream Just a Dream is a 1960 period piece set in Dayton Nevada and is a fictionalized account of the events surrounding the filming of the classic film "The Misfits" there at that time. Here is the hardscrabble town service station, with a new facade, signage, and gas island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755699569-C94L041X0Z03Q6MEE52M/justad2.jpg Just A Dream Dayton Nevada Town bar interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609444050-QPWNGG6K9593MNTYPR4N/JustADream4x.jpg Just A Dream Another view of the Dayton town bar interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609466632-FFJDN4L3IH9CEBUE0GW4/JustADream3x.jpg Just A Dream Detail of the bar area in the Dayton town bar interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609495266-8IT1VY1EFG5Z9LRIPWLB/JustADream2x.jpg Just A Dream The reverse of the bar area in the Dayton town bar interior stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392609535659-R6HQCAZ4Q1HYJIX1PUP4/JustADream5x.jpg Just A Dream The back room of town bar build. https://www.markhofeling.com/not-a-gallery daily 0.75 2014-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392746544554-HPVV4AFHYNZILOT23E7U/ART-DIRECTION-PLATE.png continue > https://www.markhofeling.com/worldsfastest daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392685561615-ET7BIVKXGV5APD2KRZQA/wfi5.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392578224676-UOXCDYCQKFFNHZVOGCIW/wfi2x.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] My principal task as Art Director on The World's Fastest Indian was to recreate Speed Week 1962 on the Bonneville Salt Flats, where legendary Burt Monro (Anthony Hopkins) seeks to set a land speed record. Here is a wide shot of "The Village" we created. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392578277960-QWKUKHXPWU8GLFCA3M0X/wfi1x.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Here is a closer view of our recreation of Speed Week 1962. We found a man who had been there as a boy and closely studied his old Kodachrome slides to be as exacting as we could be. Essentially every tent and structure was a custom-built recreation from those slides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698310-I60Q8UWS6LRRNQ92U2IT/wfi3.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Detail of the observation tower and his and her's accommodations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698180-XR19KKJCJ17YA5X6J4AO/wfi4.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] View of the mechanical inspection area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698179-AQ1XC0FAA99U9TGPVZ6O/wfi5.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] A view of "The Village". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698286-RVI2OKOIOH7UVK8IU6JK/wfi6.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Another view inside "The Village". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698253-SP52WXYU1H1368RY40N1/wfi7.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] A view of the registration area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755698282-1EKUEMXWYB42GG28VAJR/world003.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Burt ( Anthony Hopkins) stands in front of a huge billboard build on the edge of the Bonneville Salt Flats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392578470666-LL2PRCUNJE23GNE0B2OG/WORLDS_FASTEST_INDIAN_Title_01_01_00001x.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] The exterior of "The Cooler" bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392578497277-51O2DJ88Z2LX6G5LNBSD/WORLDS_FASTEST_INDIAN_Title_01_01_00006x.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Another view of life at the camp of Speed Week 1962 on the Bonneville salt flats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1536017372224-NR014HHKZ2DQ89H24P9R/burt-competing-anthony-hopkins-and-walton-goggins2.jpg The World's Fastest Indian [Art Director] Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) and company push his motorcycle to the starting line in The World’s Fastest Indian. https://www.markhofeling.com/nomorebaths daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422336568-VN6I0ZF0L4E6U2OGKGQ1/NoMoreBaths2x.jpg No More Baths https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611698108-LFC672QMA1VP8GXJV1Z2/NoMoreBaths2x.jpg No More Baths No more Baths is a family film centered around an impoverished, elderly farmer threatened with losing his land. Here is Jake’s (Jim Mapp) old house, which we built in an empty field surrounded by new developments to show the encroachment of the modern world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611770114-6XQ9AHW8RLDLPOHHXGZ5/NoMoreBathsAx.jpg No More Baths Here's a back view of the same worn-out old house we built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611804444-XBWVTZF6VC856K6QSIQC/Baths004x.jpg No More Baths An adjoining shack build on the edge of Jake's (Jim Mapp) vegetable garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392611993772-3SD88DNTWGI6L84YKPUL/Baths003x.jpg No More Baths Detail of the garden shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612055037-CRCQODCAP1S5NJB6A11V/Baths002x.jpg No More Baths The shack beyond the garden. With the genius of the director's wife Deb, we managed to grow this as a practical vegetable garden in a few short weeks, making believable several scenes where Jake is tending to the plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612144193-LGV67O4N0LTDA9VZACZN/Baths005x.jpg No More Baths A whimsical forest clubhouse for the local kids, who are supposed to have cobbled it together from whatever garbage they could find. The entrance is the tilting VW Beetle, whose hood opens with a secret lever hidden in the hollow of a tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612196055-NUPD3HUFNN649SL45G07/Baths006x.jpg No More Baths Detail of the open clubhouse door. https://www.markhofeling.com/returnsecretgarden daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392422461193-RYASW1O8DZ6SJ4X5ERRR/Garden001x.jpg Return to the Secret Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612306849-HAMDQP2NN5YK0TZMC2TL/Garden001x.jpg Return to the Secret Garden Return to the Secret Garden is a small family movie that is meant as a continuation of the classic story. The script called for finding the garden dead and long-neglected. Here is a view of the crumbling Greek-style gazebo build, some of the neglected formal beds, and the heavy gothic doors we built into the courtyard of an abandoned old flour mill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612340844-2I82Z651O9P88CSGY69X/Garden002x.jpg Return to the Secret Garden Here is a shot of the practical, formal English pond gone to ruin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392612370388-CCA9RKY2042TR39ZFVOQ/Garden004x.jpg Return to the Secret Garden A detail of the crumbling gazebo. https://www.markhofeling.com/windrunner daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392423963124-J4W6DX8BOGWNTISR43VO/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00000x.jpg Windrunner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615775890-U8X3RJSL783MKN4EMN7P/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00000x.jpg Windrunner Windrunner is the story of a young kid from the city having to move to the country and eventually meeting the ghost of Jim Thorpe. A wide shot of Wa Tho Huck's (Russell Means) desolate ranch on a red rock mesa in southern Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615820317-VVPID34Z0Z4Q33VF12ML/Wrunner002x.jpg Windrunner This shed was part of Wa Tho Huck's (Russell Means) remote ranch on a red rock mesa in southern Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615852364-D8SNDMQMWTZC6MKK9N00/Wrunner001x.jpg Windrunner Another build on Wa Tho Huck’s (Russell Means) ranch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615877130-JNE7CBCQF178KX52OM6C/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00010x.jpg Windrunner Detail of the corral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615902759-BUOKJC16L587LTD3DE8Q/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00007x.jpg Windrunner Shot of Wa Tho Huck's (Russell Means) humble trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615926192-5VZNN1BTTZ8F3Y7EQ2BR/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00005x.jpg Windrunner Interior of Wa Tho Huck's (Russell Means) trailer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755700663-6BXKRVAQ1O4RYFVN8LUB/dvdvolume_title_01_02_00004.jpg Windrunner Reverse shot of the trailer interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392615975808-C0829NML9GUTFYNEMSOI/DVDVolume_Title_01_02_00001x.jpg Windrunner Interior of Wa Tho Huk's (Russell Means) grain shed build. https://www.markhofeling.com/notreal daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://www.markhofeling.com/funnythinghappened daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392424347493-1CCGXV00ZDCCNAFNSQNA/cast-by-each-houseX.jpg A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702819-EF4PL9GJI24ICEQWNJHP/funnything.jpg A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Theatrical set for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". As my only actual theatrical set, I was delighted to be handed a work I knew and loved from my childhood. I felt like there was a very Warner Brothers/Chuck Jones quality to the music and the comedy of this piece that a naturalistic Roman street scene did not serve, so I went for it in form and color, and whimsy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702833-KIN8UGA2KF3J1G3W8BB5/funnythingb.jpg A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Here is a wide shot during the opening musical number. Each color scape instantly tells the story of each of the three iconic houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702800-WK4UG5NT5L3XT2W7T2CK/funnythingc.jpg A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum A detail of the street from "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702844-LC25BVCLWRD6I0FTB3FB/funnythingd.jpg A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Details of the houses from "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://www.markhofeling.com/atomfilms daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392428689387-O0F2PIUMQCNSE3RPBZ3C/AtomLounge1x.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701906-VFDCA6G5XC5BJW28KRWV/atom1.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance The short film distribution company Atom Films hired me to create a walk-in lounge for Sundance 1999 in a horrid mess of a Chinese Restaurant on Main Street in Park City, Utah. The request was a cool Soho loft feel on a limited budget and two days for the transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701933-PBV12BC1PRRLVU27RSYP/atom2.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance We broomed out the restaurant stuff, tore up the jade carpet, buried most of the walls behind semi-visible steel studs and white or translucent corrugated fiberglass and vacu-form brick walls, and brought in all the mid-century Scandinavian and 60's mod we could find at short notice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701906-SG6TWHQP29L8MH57HRJU/atom3.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance We hid the crummy plastic Chinese restaurant columns and arch inside a translucent corrugated fiberglass and steel portal with red neon inside, since one of the client’s requests was a sort of a whorehouse lounge in which press interviews could be held. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701869-FABGP5N7QQYEYGDHUBZJ/atom5.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance Here is the boudoir the client requested for press interviews. The mannequin heads throughout the venue were our way to deal with the dozens of headphones provided for listening to, and viewing featured short films on several video screens. The entire bed and all the bedding was custom made and dripping with rhinestones, including the yellow chiffon shroud, held aloft by sock-monkey cherubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755701896-D1XXB8TUN42H3D6IWSE3/atom4.jpg Atom Films Lounge at Sundance Another view of the whorehouse-style boudoir the client requested for press interviews. https://www.markhofeling.com/modernwest daily 0.75 2014-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396140639568-2LDEE5YW3Y52ZYFWZ94W/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+44+25+AMx.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138973389-8LOZ23UFB1DLLW1EXM53/Photo+Feb+22%2C+12+32+23+PM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery Our clients took over this 2,000 sq foot space for a high-end, contemporary Western gallery. We began our work in a former bicycle shop in a historic building about five weeks before the gallery opened. This is a panorama of the early stages of our work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139075600-KMEEB6IUSR5EFZBC40PO/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+44+25+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery After five weeks, this is the result. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139030530-HC5I3XOLIMLVLJIVI2R4/Photo+Mar+28%2C+6+26+58+PM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery The client brought us an image of a daring museum space in Germany that featured an acid-green rubber floor. I offered a more regionally appropriate, western vernacular idea of a herringbone turquoise floor. They loved the idea and went for it on the spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138912480-J99XL0SHNB443QHIWILK/IMG_1475.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery We had the 2,000 - plus pieces of Tennessee hickory custom milled, then individually dyed in six different lots before being assembled in the incredibly precise herringbone pattern. This is about 10% of the boards drying before installation.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138934735-Z7UULGMUNMRS2886O159/IMG_1722.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery The Den or Closing Room. This vignette of a comfortable, southwestern style living room allows a customer to relax while viewing selected pieces of art outside the common, white gallery setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139067972-I5CMFOXCCKAW5031LOZV/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+36+33+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery Another angle of the Closing Room, showing the handmade "kiva" fireplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138938359-JRG7Q0WKNHM5FHRHZFNB/IMG_1726.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery Essentially every piece of furniture in the gallery was custom built or customized in some way. Decorator Linda Johnson had this beautiful leather sofa built from scratch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139792491-NIR6TTZH4XV4DJSB0AIW/IMG_1711.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery The office is attached to the Closing Room in the same covered space. Here again, we broke from the dynamic energy of the turquoise floor with dark hickory laid in a single chevron to create a more quiet palette and feel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396140399358-BCVUIKNXYILU1F9Y7WQ6/IMG_1720.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery We wanted to give the client maximum flexibility in activating the gallery for different events. We designed and built this desk, shown here in its normal, workday position. The wheel can be unlocked, allowing the desk to pivot 90 degrees into the archway of the office to become a bar or buffet for parties. The electrical supply for the computer runs up through the pivot point from the basement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139145225-8EZCEQWR7TMS03RDA68R/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+47+31+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery Another view of the office from the back hallway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138916854-47QCQ6JGM2DTAN7OJLO7/IMG_1719.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery The gallery has a huge collection of art, well beyond the hanging capacity of gallery space. We custom-built these art storage walls to address that need. Easily moveable by customers, they can potentially store up to 100 pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138960834-Z6UCCS99JM725ZLXVNNS/IMG_1733.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery One of the storage walls pulled out for inspection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138900909-0B686I1XI8OJF0M4EKC1/IMG_1715.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery The clients wanted an art piece/light fixture over the desk that would be an interesting, natural counterpoint to the square cleanliness of the room. I routed out channels on the back and upper side of this beautiful branch and completely concealed the wiring inside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396138968749-P49V9P1Z08PYZKFR6ZUG/IMG_1740.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery A view up the back hallway toward the kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139102416-SIS8GKR81EI72I08H1ZY/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+46+42+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery A view looking down one of the outer corridors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139133044-8IKLD2HHW7R262XBBUFK/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+47+06+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery A view of the front corner. An ideal spot for a sculpture gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1396139167730-AKTZQJCF200CR1IPGAUN/Photo+Mar+29%2C+11+48+40+AM.jpg Modern West Fine Art Gallery Yours truly standing in the main gallery space. https://www.markhofeling.com/sco daily 0.75 2014-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1397164096677-1U6L0MLHD35COQ363HY6/IMG_5569x.jpg Schawel + Coles Offices https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1397163569151-XA32U0JMO12FWMV725GB/IMG_5569x.jpg Schawel + Coles Offices Schawel + Coles is a long-established graphic design and business consulting firm in Salt Lake City. When they relocated to a shabby old office in the historic Judge building, I helped remodel and redesign their space. As one of Salt Lake's most cutting-edge design firms, they needed a flexible, clean, and inspiring space for their dynamic workforce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1397163567115-QR3IEJAJWQQ5VOAKC6HF/IMG_5556x.jpg Schawel + Coles Offices After tearing out horrible 70's drop ceilings and decades of ducts and wires, we then reduced the space down to the raw basics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1397163569799-TQX5WLNZ87JBSVCX4U5A/IMG_5562x.jpg Schawel + Coles Offices A dozen hand-painted billboards for a period movie I made that were headed for the dumpster were salvaged and cut into 15"x15" squares to tile the corner wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1397163571160-9VSTZKDREJNDUP3GJF92/IMG_5571x.jpg Schawel + Coles Offices Long, common butcher-block work tables and cool paint colors make a friendly, communal vibe that encourages teamwork and a casual interface. https://www.markhofeling.com/sketchbook daily 0.75 2013-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831701930-JDJ14GKX3CBNAE1JK6N2/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-42-44.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Descendants: The Rise of Red begins with a big, splashy musical sequence that involves a chase, several stunts, soldiers, and vandalism, as well as song and dance. As part of the soldiers chasing our hero Red around Wonderland, I designed several sections of rooftops that could be reconfigured to create a varied stunt landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831712937-93R566O11U10DC5C0WIP/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-41-50.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is a first draft of the modular, comically compact worker's houses with their rooftop landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831684168-Q815B47IAU0IZG7SU995/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-14-28.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK When one begins to break down 4+ minutes of song, it quickly becomes clear that is a vast amount of time in which to stage a high-speed pursuit and game of cat and mouse, requiring many set pieces, despite all the VFX help in the world. This is one such set piece that we ended up nt building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831687841-ISB9XXDEYBGET08YMJI6/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-17-10.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This set piece was intended to get Red out of the exterior scene after being rescued by the Mad Hatter's mechanical claw. We ended up using a different piece of scenery for this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831678431-01XNXBGWNX0TRSUB4JNN/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-43-37.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another idea abandoned for cost and time would have allowed the cast member to easily climb a "vertical" tower by making a tiltable climbing section and employing some simple camera tricks as well as VFX set extension. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831685814-IV1WEHTSC6FI9V2771QG/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-16-14.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The end of Red's wild chase sequence ends with her impossibly cornered, only to be saved by a Deus Ex Machina in the form of Mad Hatter's mechanical claw. This is my preliminary sketch of how the claw would work to rescue her then disappear back into it's nesting place before the soldiers became any the wiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831680962-YFVGZZZZLN3XPDORYI70/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-12-33.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The Mad Hatter, known in Descendants: The Rise of Red as Maddox Hatter, controls his massive, retractable claw via a mechanical puppeting mechanism in his laboratory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831695648-GY8432BQX5SVOL27K6TW/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-10-38.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The storyboards called for Red to escape capture by flinging herself away from the soldiers with a catapult. We built a version of this one, but the sequence was cut for time and overall cost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831678012-J514EV6LQNF4CBEZLKNI/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-44-33.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The royal plaza below the Queen of Heart's castle is decorated with several pieces of topiary fashioned into her iconic heart shapes. We built a version of this one for Red to conceal herself from the soldiers in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831693675-Q616AWIPD5F7MYLBP1CY/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-18-59.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK These topiary arch hedges were covered with foliage and roses, which Red brutally pruned in her act of rebellion against her overbearing mother, The Queen of Hearts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831710927-R2QGEO9KWNBOVIJQ42JS/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-39-05.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK For another sequence in the film, the original script had a sequence where Maddox Hatter came to the rescue yet again, but this time with some sort of magnetic device. This was my idea for his magnetic weapon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831709785-RAT6ZMKP3CC4YBFCLF99/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-40-58.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Every queen must have a throne, so I designed this one for the Queen of Hearts. It serves not only as her literal seat of power but also as a sedan chair, carrying her out into the plaza to view the vandalism Red committed the prior night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831692099-588KRYFD9G1ESCFTRQCD/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-20-49.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is my preliminary sketch for Uliana's Lair. The niece of the powerful Sea Witch Ursula, Uliana's Lair needed to reflect the sort of place her family would feel comfortable in. So I thought this rotting, slimy combination of some kind of prehistoric whale and a spooky, deep-sea angler fish fit the bill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831714125-2VIBNLH237EIDRN3A0NA/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-34-15.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK To lord over her villainous minions, Uliana would naturally need a stage. So we made this collage of giant coral and mystery sea life to elevate her above her lessers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831707829-BF97LDVA5TYK5B9CD79T/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-24-33.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And just like the Queen of Hearts, I wanted to give Uliana a throne. The following drawings demonstrate how I proposed it self-assembled then rose out of the coral platform to carry her up to reach the final note of her song. We abandoned the idea because there ended up being no need for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831704620-U4Z6NUHAZFAETRLY1I4Q/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-25-32.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831698852-8XV5GK4POUUS63XQJXVH/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-26-27.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831689478-VKWBC82ONG36Q4DW3YR8/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-23-38.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831706259-UO1WICLW0WXHO9LQMTWO/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-28-11.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831696821-8RJ5WRQZ6XL0629T2BON/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-29-05.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another drawing in the abandoned sequence for Uliana's throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831682669-KN75ZZH6ZAHAKMBYI7Q9/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-18-06.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK My first draft of the Troublemaker's Cookbook, a dangerously enchanted artifact kept securely in Merlin's office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1723831699973-8CMMII0K3A799D938I91/FedEx+Scan+2023-03-28_15-19-58.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the weird, slimy pods we made for Merlin's advanced botany class. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831845-A11EO4FDWH8C7WOX92RQ/F923D784-4364-4E3A-93D6-14700C844D7D_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 features the arrival of aliens into the fragile peace of Seabrook, where humans have finally learned to live in harmony with their zombie and werewolf neighbors. This is my fist sketch of the control room on the alien Mothership (voiced by RuPaul Charles). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617233846-TVS98H69KRTCJM26TT48/IMG_1991-1.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here you can see how the finished product came out of that initial sketch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825070-FAOJQLGEGRIPNXD5Y6KQ/7C2243F3-4880-4813-9D4A-7638313F0014_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK I wanted to give our unique aliens and unique technology, something nobody has yet seen in this oversaturated entertainment market with countless space/sci-fi shows available to stream. So I came up with this sphere and socket system, where translucent “data spheres” are moved around a receiving board with multiple sockets in a 3-zone control board. Each socket has a tiny switch that activates an LED to illuminate the spheres when they are inserted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831076-WXEFL3PO40GS4O0LUMY7/DDE016F5-CAA1-486C-9A06-6781B503ACBC_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The control board also had to act as an interface for an ad hoc jumper cable system for when the Mothership is losing power in the final scenes. This drawing shows how a removable panel allowed for that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617232485-KID0KGCMJ3TE7AIUQ9YQ/IMG_1936-1.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In this photo both the sphere and socket control system and the internal information/energy system for the jumper cable rescue can be seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436831090-6IAV3OOHCF8DJ7PSC79X/EB58F1C5-D93B-422B-BD85-2822F65B3F8E_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The most important institution in the very strange town of Seabrook is the Seabrook high school cheer squad, which is hosting the biggest competition in the cheer universe, the Seabrook National Cheer Championship. The alien invaders have concluded the missing data they require is hidden in the cheer trophy, and therefore set out to win the competition. This sketch is of the “trophy halo”. This surprisingly complicated set piece had two, counter-rotating rings of faceted, metallic cheer icons, and was lowered at the end of the competition so the trophy could be awarded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1663617232804-1EYDQAF5B2C90OT06KUR/IMG_1584-1.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the completed trophy halo, complete with the much-prized cheer trophy in the center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823889-GBBEOBXSVNR6Q6LL1ANH/2EE21AB1-C3A7-4723-9D4B-F3AFDCD9296B_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Now that the jittery humans of Seabrook have fully embraced their zombie neighbors, the hottest spot in town for the popular kids is Zita’s Trash Fired Pizza, a Zombietown institution. Nightmarish ingredients thrown onto dough are then thrown onto/into improvised, trash-incinerating “pizza ovens” until the pies are burnt just-so, then served to the eager teens. Here are some preliminary trash ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436826599-JEBZBDNYDR65IU2E2HJP/756C3459-26ED-48F6-B090-54015EC306A1_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another set of Zombie-style pizza ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436827746-S389K9A3ZI3Q39P7GYB8/858BF532-D5DE-4560-9BDD-BB532ADE39EC_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch from which hand-painted signs were produced is just a sampling of the ingredients a patron of Zita’s Tash Fired Pizza could pick from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436824777-YXLD2UFW0D7122KPKSO4/6FFEABCF-97E6-4475-8F26-ED1E559292B8_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The main protagonist in the Z-O-M-B-I-E-S trilogy is Zed Necrodopolis (Milo Manheim). He has helped integrated the zombies back into the larger society, helped the werewolves integrate, and is hoping to become the first zombie ever to go to college. Needless to say, everybody, especially from Zombietown is pulling for him. This sketch is a sampling of the zombie-style (made of trash), bilingual signs that his neighbors and friends have made for moral support before his interview with the college recruiter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825894-XR68Z6GHKQI6Y52P3645/40ACC0A7-2A3F-43FF-9814-6713C71C4AE7_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Under Wraps 2 is a Halloween caper movie that center’s around 2 Egyptian mummies that were a couple in life and wish to remain so in death. An intrepid group of young friends tries to make it happen for them, and antics ensue. This is an object found in one of the mummies tombs and id on display with him in a museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436828700-IFC0KQTGZDVOTGULQBG9/8059313C-C46E-4E03-BEAF-E7CFC1E2C7A9_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a crate/tomb that the evil mummy Sobek (T.J. Storm) has prepared for himself and Rose (Ryrla McIntosh), the mummy he is trying to kidnap away from her true love, buried deep in the storage of the museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436829545-Q95YKNL52KH3HM9QHYCY/CE474394-1990-405A-AE7E-AEBC1749D664_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Under Wraps 2 opens in a spooky corn maze. All of the cast in the scene were minors, so shooting a real night exterior scene is nearly impossible. I had to build a corn maze on stage. We had a very modest budget, and corn season was long over, so we had to rely on what limited amount of very expensive silk corn we could rent. So this is how I made a whole “maze” out of about 900 pieces of rented corn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1666139774611-9KLLMU0E00YZWBYCICZ1/IMG_2822.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We were able to make a repeatable combination of intersections exactly as I sketched with a measly 900 corn stalks. With the proper application of darkness and smoke, it worked perfectly as an exterior cornfield at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436824363-5WMQPPMA8MWALR08ZLFQ/04A035F7-4C31-4E7E-B919-2276251A18CB_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A Halloween-themed wedding and wedding “Shocktail” party are one of the inciting subplots of the movie. This is one of the pieces for the “Shocktail” party thrown by Amy (Sophia Hammons) whose two dads are getting married the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436826869-34XCXDQKM586T4XVO9TV/768D938F-2C10-4FCB-9E03-E7CFA3199273_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK There were also multiples of life-sized “cake-topper” decoration throughout the party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823260-3Y2VWIBF7C2A4YLP5B3H/1E15CEC2-80A7-4CD7-A17B-DBA1882A80CD_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The movie resolves in an action sequence in the museum storage facility where Sobek’s (T.J. Storm) evil mummies are vanquished by our heroes. This is one of several crash-gags that takes the bad guys out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436828384-C47RJWQUN1F5W2M1D4C1/6662A7C3-AA4A-44AF-9A4E-50FCF97DB796_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK As UW2 was steeped in Egyptian artifacts and culture, I had to design loads of ancient jewelry and accouterment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436823416-KMTUKAAOCJAL2UTM5MGP/2E22A0DF-5D4A-4EDA-A8E0-E4E9EC2DF73A_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK With the bad guys dispatched, the movie culminates with the sweet, elegant “Golden Harvest” Hallowedding. Amy’s (Sophia Hammons) two dads tie the knot in a glowing, autumnal-themed wedding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436829105-8L0TVYM3LA17PABFZA94/B5528FF6-21F7-4FCE-99E3-D80C6FD9173E_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The gold and silver Halloweeding cake in the wedding scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436827894-8MNSX9OI8FPWEP59AXOI/5472D8A0-635A-43E3-A546-D9521D172BAE_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another major story point of UW2 is a visit to the famed, annual event in the fictional home of Halloween, Rockport, or for the season, “Shockport”. I pitched the idea that the mythical, Headless Horseman-style folk character of Rockport is Ebineezer Eek, a demented, 19th-century farmer that became half-man, half-pumpkin in his frenzy to create the perfect Jack-o-Lantern. These are the posters I designed to advertise the event, including one of Ebeneezer himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1665436825789-OP3E50RQO7OCYURVJ6O6/11BBF4FF-528E-4599-AD7E-07FB5B8F431F_1_201_a.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the entryway to the fun and spooky “Shockport Festival of Fright”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845532439-9FVXLHGA8YWXC01JP3Q6/MH_Illustration_Page_11x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2, werewolves were added to the already tumultuous human/zombie culture clash of the first film. The werewolves were aware of both the humans and the zombies but had chosen to live at a safe remove from their noise and madness, paying attention to the rhythms of the lunar cycles as they always have. This initial sketch of their lair shows my proposition that the werewolves are an ancient, Druidic sort of culture of astronomers with a primitive but fantastical observatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603905446344-3KA8ULHSRFF1DFF8IYQ8/EPSON003.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This more technical section-sketch of the lair shows the basic form and dimensions of the werewolves’ lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845535665-A3M2T5W4U4V3FHM4ZT4P/MH_Illustration_Page_18x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The roughly pounded, bronze moon disk is not only part of their ancient observatory but served as a paleolithic, spinning mirror ball during the musical sequences in the werewolf lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845535071-3WPF7YBMEW219NY9ZPJY/MH_Illustration_Page_14x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Because of the werewolves’ close connection to the cycles of nature, we detailed their world with fully natural elements, in contrast to the modern and chaotic worlds of both the zombies and humans. This sketch shows crystal lighting elements in their main lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845538868-28CGB7WL9I6YGMC60R8E/zombies-root+railing.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We meant to leave this rough, neolithic, stone slab stairway bare, but the safety dept. insisted it needed to have a railing. I came up with this tangle of vines that hid welded steel hoops to preserve the fully organic look. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845533911-CQBMWJYJI5YHYACCCXW0/MH_Illustration_Page_12x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S and Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 focus on the relationship between humans and “monsters” who the panicked humans struggle to understand. The monsters in Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 are werewolves, who really have no interest at all in either human or zombie affairs until our narrative pulls them in. More than any other classic monster, werewolves are bound to the cycles of the earth and moon. So part of my design for their ancient observatory was this primitive, telescopic kind of astrolabe in the oculus of their underground lair and these woven globes showing the phases of the moon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845492595-MFRS44YP3NSNN1JW0O48/IMG_3529.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This image of the finished set shows the culmination of the conceptual elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845498893-ID5M9Z5HDTBRPOTFJKE4/IMG_3627.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the reverse shot of the finished set, showing the moon disk, the astrolabe, the moon globes, and an altar that rises out of the floor to receive the moonstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603847375835-R3YQH4YZA3WZJWVTY7BT/ancient-wereish.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The script gave the werewolves a spoken language, and because I had to make their ancient culture and civilization visually detailed, I proposed the werewolves needed a written language as well. So I created these two versions of what we called Wereish, ancient, and modern. Their intense focus on the elements of both the earth and sky informs their alphabet. I also assigned each letter a folk meaning from perhaps a pre-written-language time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845518799-9EZ921E4YE78LHK2ZL59/EPSON005x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch of the outer wall of the werewolves’ lair shows how we used the ancient Wereish glyphs on backlit “stone” slabs to detail their world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845522197-J44LYS8RTJYQE9A4OIHH/IMG_2910x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK What draws the werewolves into the noisome world of the zombies and humans is their pursuit of their stolen Moonstone, the sacred object that gives them the power to control the balance between their human and animal selves. In a final scene, the werewolves, zombies, and humans must work together to lift it out of a destroyed, subterranean chamber. So I suggested this elliptical “wolf-tech” cage to provide grabbing space for the maximum number of actors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845510216-SRIBY7AXHRR35B23JWNA/IMG_3895.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The final version of the Moonstone itself was a more classic, crystalline shape, but the “wolf-tech”, elliptical cage served the scene perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845536402-SDYYPZ15MR8J9L8CLRBD/z-alpha-bet.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK While the werewolves are an ancient and sophisticated culture that’s thousands of years old, the zombies are the result of an unfortunate industrial accident in the 1960s. Yet the script also gave them a spoken language, so I was determined to give them a written one as well. I derived the letters of the Zombie Alphabet from the folds of the human brain, the object they crave beyond all others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603904914533-KJZWJP2BYDKYG5N356GK/05_ZTOWN_SIGNS_Page_5x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The Zombies are bi-lingual, and their world reflects that. This sketch is for the movie theater marquee in the center of their former prison slum, Zombietown, showing both The Zombie and English languages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845517344-326WFC0QRKIR41OWB6I0/IMG_4076.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the bi-lingual marquee in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845539633-MHQ2HZ4HPSPSHS9NMVL9/z-signage.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sampling of sketches for business signs on the shopping street in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603914644181-M197W4110AGJAI3YKGY5/IMG_3998.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A shot of the shopping district in Zombietown with some of the signage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845528238-Q7DAU3NJEBF2L1PKV4Y2/itcamefromcometx.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK As monster-phobia is a recurring theme in both Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 1 and 2, I sketched these b-movie horror posters for the Zombietown movie theater to be displayed at different beats in the movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845527868-ABMPBGX1FWEX64YZSKHO/IMG_4074x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here’s a completed version by artist Christian England outside the completed set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845531146-U6083EGUV5FQNUCL6OIK/MH_Illustration_Page_09.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The protagonist of Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 is Zed (Milo Manheim) conceives an elaborate “promposal” to ask his girlfriend Addison (Meg Donelly) to the “Prawn” (a little joke, the high school in our story is the Seabrook High Mighty Shrimp, thus the “Prawn”). I came up with this kooky, “Zombie-tech” method of unraveling signage made of found materials that are triggered via a series of funky mechanisms to fall as Addison passes them in the cheerleader’s bus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845517656-IBOZDLHA0WX4Q0KDPIV2/EPSON002x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another sketch of Zed’s (Milo Manheim) elaborate “Zombie-tech” promposal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845525471-AD0YXK6M70U8D6PCJBBL/IMG_3456x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK One of Zed’s (Milo Manheim) completed promposal pieces on set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603904915246-LOXJPHVL00MN6OEBPXXV/0040_001x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We wanted a very over-the-top vibe for Seabrook high school’s annual, shrimp-themed “Prawn”. So we went for it. Here’s a sketch for the entry and the photo spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845510295-3JLB7JNXAY269JGZ0CKA/IMG_3817.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here’s a photo of the nearly completed photo spot, with some of our balloon-sculpture jellyfish in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845530354-D2C8Z1DZQXUP03GEBJS3/MH_Illustration_Page_06x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And of course, presiding over all the revelry of the “Prawn” is the towering, Poseidon-like Mighty Shrimp himself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171862796-7S4MEWWMD77KLGZ6DKZM/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_01.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK To set the stage in the first Z-O-M-B-I-E-S film, we needed an opening sequence to deliver a lot of information about the state of our "world". I came up with this motion-controlled, deconstructed miniature sequence to explain it all in under 90 seconds. This is the map of the pieces and camera moves. Unfortunately, we didn't have the time in the shooting schedule to pull off what would have been this really fun opening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171867348-KGMSWWZV5U95WPPT153Q/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_02.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The first of our very conscious, full-scale dioramas shows a typical 1950s living room, where a TV plays back a crummy old B zombie movie. The camera pushes past the room to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1603845514462-8J4GDBZ2KJAS5FOYGP6T/IMG_3936.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed Mighty Shrimp waiting to greet the guests arriving at the “Prawn” at Seabrook high. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171867888-C2PVLIZE4IOLWAJB4K3E/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_03.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK ... a train-set-sized model of the sleepy seaside town of Seabrook, with its quiet neighborhoods and the city's pride and joy, the experimental energy plant, at its center. The camera pushes past that to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171869819-J9BBZZUANGRV2N8I72KJ/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_04.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK ... a control station floating in the void of the studio, illuminated by a lighting cue as the camera approaches. A lime cola tips on a cue, and the control board starts blinking red! Note the "days without and accident" poster hung above the control board. The camera pulls back out to the train-set city to show the energy plant explode with a cheap smoke bomb and glow green, then camera travels to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171872116-KPSGYB0HTVOC6DCWGRAS/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_05.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK ... a diorama of old time footbal hero Z, who would become the first zombie. A lighting cue lights up the scene as the old, 1960s vibrating metal football toy jiggles to life. Camera moves on to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171874079-9C99DIJ12J2AOGJPWLKH/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_06.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK ... a new diorama demonstrating how all the coincidences have led up to a real-life zombie crisis caused by the explosion of the strange energy source at the plant. Camera then moves to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171863477-9CU8FNC7B10LOBD1R8K6/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_07.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK ... a miniature idyllic, Seabrook neighborhood, suddenly divided by a wall that rises out of a slot in the "ground". Lighting cues sell the blight of the zombie side and the white picket fence perfection of the human side. Camera the moves to... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1721171864455-A8S3J9V5HKTFVA2DTYTS/11x17+color+scans+300dpi_Page_08.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A full-scale chain link fence illuminated by swing search lights and the red and blue of police lights, with hateful signage telling the zombies to keep out. I had designed a few other stops of the camera as well, all of which would have led directly to our zombie actors as they started another day in their weird Apartheid. I still regret we weren't able to pull this off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916105370-4FPVR5BSHA4WKLDO08UC/EPSON029x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S, zombies living in segregated Zombietown live a subsistence life. There are no public services including electricity or water. But one little zombie flower struggles to make it, just like the zombie underclass. This is my design sketch/storyboard for the story-beats of our silent little hero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916057307-AH4DFTAIEHNVWO4VBJU2/Eliza%27s+Laptop+X.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The zombies in Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S make do with what little they have. The Brilliant Eliza (Kylee Russell) has cobbled together mid-20th-century dead-tech to make a functional, modern laptop. This is my drawing for that prop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568939692576-BN7ND14IY3JFGY5LSQBC/IMG_0651.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of Eliza’s (Kylee Russell) finished dead-tech laptop for Disney’s Z-O-M-B-I-E-S. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916055435-UMBF51ZKNBGJTZODMHDS/EPSON080x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 3, the villains imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost have vandalized their end of a ruined bridge to the mainland to send a signal to their captors across the bay. This sketch showed my paint department my concept for how to vandalize that set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924542779-95YOAUN99T6FL56US39M/IMG_0777.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A panoramic shot of the graffitied bridge plaza on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916045282-O1FJ889HXGCD3BDP35RA/Hades+Locking+gate+X.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is my preliminary sketch for the entrance to mighty Hades underground lair on the Isle of the Lost in Descendants 3. The imprisoned Greek god wishes to be left very much alone, so I wanted his ratty gate to reflect that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924251604-39DF9NHV0J7JUAW9FCCY/IMG_0344.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the completed, sculpted foam and steel gate. Note one eye is a toilet seat and one is an old tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916053931-76WJWBDODZWBIUQ08I01/EPSON075x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 3, Dr. Facilier from The Princess and the Frog is also a captive on the Isle of the Lost. Rather than choosing seclusion like Hades, he has instead built himself an impressive, underground arcade. This layered, ratty, carnival-style mask is the entrance to his arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916054931-BDWIE6D71BK897TGDIJU/EPSON077x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another sketch of the mask/entrance in Dr. Facilier’s arcade on the Isle of the Lost. The 3/4 view shows cast access as well as how the flat layers stack up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924301313-4YZETSRYJK2TVPF5W122/IMG_0306.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed mask/entrance to Dr. Facilier’s arcade on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916051522-6N1A81DR6WUAOE2P3A78/EPSON069x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We had decided in the first Descendants movie that nothing new had come to the Alcatraz-like Isle of the Lost since 1979. So the crafty Dr. Facilier had to have made all his coin-operated amusements from the pre-digital refuse he had access to. All his arcade games are totally analog. And because the imprisoned population of the Isle had few practical skills before their capture, things are also silly and a little nonsensical, like his Voodoo blow-dart game and his foosball/billiard-combo table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924280496-9WH72UKO5PBQKND4SO4J/IMG_0322.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And here’s the Voodoo game aged and ready to go on set In Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916052350-IL4210MSRD10VM800BUI/EPSON071x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We made more than a dozen coin-op arcade games for Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. The Robin Hood game on the left was sadly not one of them, but the Monster Madness game on the right was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924290690-0M1ZZB9M01TTE9FQXK4L/IMG_0313.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the finished Monster Madness game in Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade, complete with bad, 1970’s style arcade stencil graphics and battling monster puppets in a cheaply built cityscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916050653-BYLN01CQY7J3CISF7Y2G/EPSON068x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We also built these games, Sea Beast Feast and Voodoo coin toss game in Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916048814-9D56R3QUZLDZ6KERGYRM/EPSON066x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We also built the Castle Smasher catapult game and the Pickpocket Game (not pictured) in Dr’ Facilier’s Voodoo arcade on the Isle of the Lost in Disney’s Descendants 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568944881904-F0C9RZVG6T88MEQUZ37O/IMG_0321.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The Castle Smasher arcade game lets the prisoners on the Isle of the Lost imagine they’re attacking some arrogant prince’s castle across the bay in Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916047715-LGT9M9INRJPA9G7WNPNL/EPSON062x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of various signs for Dr. Faciler’s Voodoo arcade on the Isle of the Lost for Disney’s Descendants 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916046798-W17RGNDQR18HE606V8QD/EPSON056x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Dr’ Facilier, though imprisoned, was once a mighty Voodoo practitioner from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. He keeps a prized corner of his Voodoo arcade, hidden on the Isle of the Lost for his own tarot/fortune-telling booth. This is my sketch for that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916053177-QV390S5SCG4ZB8GL5LPA/EPSON064x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is my sketch for the candle-lit sign. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916045195-RDQVU6V9A4HEYIQ4BZK4/EPSON063x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK I drew these little signs for the back curtain of Dr. Facilier’s fortune-telling booth in his Voodoo arcade to entice any passer-by to pay the Dr. to look into their future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924307478-MT4TAQX2F9V42XWYJ2TJ/IMG_0295.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And here’s the finished fortune-telling booth on set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245367679-SQH58TII357ARG7MJRQP/EPSON129.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the first drawing in a deck of concept sketches I did for the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo in Salt Lake City. This was a blue-sky proposal for the exterior of the building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245369701-SMAK4V37SINE6SY7MPEC/EPSON127.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This was a proposed "control tower" where young visitors could test their paper/model planes for distance. This was never built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245369473-G6H96ISZH4NQ53P5C8DK/EPSON128.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This was a proposal for an entry tunnel made of 747 engine cowlings. Unfortunately, the museum did not own the exterior space required for this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245367608-U2Y7XO6JYSYR3KI1GF2I/EPSON130.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In the interior entry to the exhibit, I wanted to strike a spiritual note. The Tunnel of Dreams represents in roughly chronological order the human dream of flying, from the first stone carvings all the way to the New Horizons probe. the tunnel focuses down on a sacred moment in the dream of flight, an American living room in July 1969, where two children watch the moon landing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245356800-V4OE7PHKL7E4OY1310ZJ/IMG_0870.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the finished Tunnel of Dreams, with almost 200 original illustrations of flying things real and imagined, from the first Sumerian winged gods, through DaVinci, to the Space Race and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245364471-KYVY7NHRJSIPTZY6VCH6/EPSON132.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The technical aspect of the exhibit focused on the three main kinds of flight, aerodynamic, ballistic, and buoyant. So I designed a thematic kiosk for each idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245363854-6IT79SP2BWV01GZJTM17/EPSON133.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the concept for buoyant flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245354189-3ICTONBC577P7MI75TZI/IMG_0885.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the finished kiosk for ballistic flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481473643-KG47XLRWIZXSIBQCZA2L/EPSON024-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch shows an abandoned idea for boxes inset into the kiosks that would use a 2-1/2 dimensional object (like Icarus or a V2 rocket) in front of a screen with a moving sky video loop to add a sense of movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481472856-DQUCF338FGLLAJGFF948/EPSON020-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is an abandoned idea for the Flight exhibition where we would create an “exploded” and mechanically animated jet engine to show how they work, complete with neon light to indicate airflow and temperature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481476594-X4Z5HQ0NXODF1CAPT5I9/EPSON023-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another abandoned concept for Flight (there were many) was an immersive “night sky” dome theater where visitors would lay on a slowly rotating “grass” hill and gaze at the star show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245365504-QXZRLPO1V58BRHB0Y3I6/EPSON131.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Hands-on, interactive experience for young visitors was a critical mission for the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo. A flight simulator company was offering hardware and software as a donation. My task was to provide the cockpits and UI. Aside from the cost of creating realistic fighter plane cockpits, I was concerned that would create too individual and experience, making full participation by large school groups too exclusive and creating what I call "engines of disappointment". So this sketch shows my solution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245353579-PSFBU0KE0NXDY2KB7BYL/IMG_7457.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We made two of these flight simulators. I feel that the "cool" factor is still there, but the open design allows for much greater participation and group fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481478793-CPH2D3R0ADEHCC3XC4NU/EPSON026.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a floorplan for the abandoned “egg” concept for a proposed “future of flight” section of the exhibit. It was meant to be a control room for a spacecraft in the distant future. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481481643-AMRY7A4IT14VTZ2W70FZ/EPSON018-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Preliminary wall construction concept for the “egg” in the Future of Flight section of the Flight exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481478821-ZF222G3R37TV3JTXXOUP/EPSON028.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK My idea was to have one section of the curved wall sculpted, then cast that, make 4 positive pieces out of semi-translucent, white fiberglass. Because the wall sections are identical right-side-up or upside-down, we could then make a symmetrical, ovoid room, and create a futuristic control room vibe with led elements glowing through the wall. A screen outside the upper skylight would project a loop of the earth passing below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481476347-YBICMWNS0ROJDHKGZNE3/EPSON025-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK One of several abandoned concepts for the entrance to the Flight exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245361667-N056BM2U6WW8COXVD5F9/EPSON135.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Part of the mission of the FLIGHT exhibition at the Leonardo was to connect interested young visitors to further information and possible careers in flight. I was allergic to the idea of a dusty old pamphlet rack as a final note to our thrilling exhibit, so I came up with this kiosk concept for connecting visitors with further opportunities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566592257-NMW86BN4JAJXM0VRF7LC/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.10.52+PM.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK As a result of the FLIGHT exhibition, we were approached by an Air Force base museum looking to revamp several display areas in its huge exhibit space. These are some images I made so they could use them to pursue funding. This is for their early warning radar exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566591429-TTSM3N3BTGO5FE4DIKMO/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.10.37+PM.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is an interior view of the early warning radar exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566589723-ZC0ZWCGV22CBG309CP47/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.09.39+PM.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The Air Force base is in possession of a full Minuteman missile silo/launch facility. I proposed we rebuild a 3 walled launch control room in exacting detail, down to the carpet. Here is my sketch of that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566592963-KS6WEYAN0RGZKQ5JA123/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.11.49+PM.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK As part of telling the story of 20th-century nuclear stand-off madness to a new generation of museum visitors, I wanted to help the museum demonstrate the expense and trouble both sides of the conflict went to secure their weapons and enough provisions to “survive” a full conflict. So making a semi-deconstructed silo bunker with thick layers of “reinforced concrete” was a must. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1701566590789-VU0GF0D1GNHTN5QQI7CU/Screenshot+2023-11-26+at+6.09.55+PM.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The Air Force base reconditions almost all landing gear in the military air-fleet. It’s an interesting assignment, but asset-wise it was mostly just a pile of parts. So I proposed a sort of shrine, organizing the pieces into a more harmonious whole and creating a well-produce3d film-clip of the technicians at work to solemnize what could otherwise be an uninteresting collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702965566443-LRPFVRJB9HJB2GB03DOF/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_01.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK I was approached by a children’s museum to conceive of a life science exhibit. While they didn’t fully have an idea about the content of the show, they did have a name picked out. This is my first sketch of what could become a main title graphic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948827510-KEFIN0AT2DBL9F7VS3RK/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_02.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is the main gallery for the proposed life science exhibit. This is a kind of combination of Michelangelo’s David and DaVinci’s Vitruvian Man, except my Renaissance figure is made of machine parts that are roughly equivalent to the function of different organs and body systems. He was meant to have moving parts and lighted sections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948831459-AY35APH4HN4V9P05KMVS/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_07.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The proposed life science exhibit was made up of different rooms illustrating the various qualifications generally considered to decide if something is indeed alive. Here is the metabolism exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948829221-YUJFK96KKRWIP6Q7R5P7/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_04.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the adaptation exhibit space in the proposed life science exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948828697-J73NGW5CDHX8BLMYSVBB/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_03.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is the cognition room in the proposed life science exhibition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948832227-ZEITROYA9N35HRLIJDUZ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_08.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is one of several proposals I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. At one point they had an emphasis on hands-on art and media workspaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948832823-97KTUFADAZM2DZ3NHP9S/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_09.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a film/video animation workspace I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948834921-F14KXN678TX6XORBXV4N/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_10.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a film/video editing workspace I was asked to conceive for a children’s museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948835370-YP5B8DTIR6KFLZBVREX8/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_11.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another view of how the film/video editing space would lay out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481488595-SDP59R0MK8TMSDBOCO5V/EPSON002.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Disney’s Descendants 2, Uma (China McClain) works in the briney fish and chips shop owned by her overbearing mother, Ursula the Sea Witch. Our first concept was to set it in a tidal cave that floods every day at high tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481483400-2MKZH68O8NKOQ77H62U3/EPSON003-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Caves, real or on stage are notoriously difficult to shoot in. So I came up with a more innovative design that would allow for a dynamic lighting design and had natural breaks for moving pieces of the arched design in and out. Outside of the archways would be a black void and atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481470716-GZZV3C5UFY26OZ8N5PXO/P1050243-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We built a 1/2 scale model to demonstrate the concept to the director and DP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481488196-V8X3DDP9AIS0KUG1VHH9/EPSON004.jpeg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK At the end of the day, we decided the money the cave concept required would be put to better use elsewhere, so we decided to reconfigure it to a more traditional sort of setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568916046863-2GBELAX70R5ER3KLE3NI/EPSON081x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We kept the idea of a damp, grim restaurant decorated with what comes in with the tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605553681459-00FDE5H8GI1MFIHQEFM2/A2_1.5.1-13.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here’s the exterior of the whimsical dump that is Ursula’s Fish & Chips. Note the salty waterline that marks high tide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506792373-2M5SQ2HWXTPA4JHY7688/C083_I.7.2.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Dancers performing in the completed fish and chips shop set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506832195-7PLA3NN31ULB0PNSXPCG/A138_1.6.1-13-1.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Uma (China McClain) and her pirate crew in front of the ghastly menu board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481471525-9CR0QV7GIZYLD5MXTZS3/IMG_1290-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Sometimes it makes sense to totally forgo preliminary sketches and instead explore complex, organic spaces in model form. That was the case with this huge rotting dock works and the wrecked pirate ship set for the Isle of the Lost in Disney’s Descendant 2. The construction dept worked directly from this 1/2 scale model to build the set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605506878054-WJTI8GK20SS62P38J37G/decendants%2B2%2Bship%2Bdock.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here are the completed dock works and pirate ship set, ocean, and background provided by VFX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481484404-PFUO31ADB92G6GTB0L5D/EPSON005-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch is from one of many designs competitions my private design company (Creative Servies Bureau) worked on when time permitted. The challenge here was to create an extremely durable marker on top of a huge underground nuclear waste facility to let people up to 10,000 years into the future know what lies beneath. So we conceived of a huge, solid concrete monument with warnings in 12 languages embedded in it, as well as pictorial, non-lingual warnings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1605481481038-C2CTBCAOI60ECMZ91WB9/EPSON006-JW.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The massive structure would essentially be indestructible and would allow access for investigation without making it easy. A 1,000-foot surround of huge square stones set on their corners would make mechanical intervention difficult, as would the narrow 5-foot passages between the huge 20x20 foot columns. The sloping and curved nature would make habitation by humans or birds difficult. Inside massive bronze plaques would bear verbal and non-verbal information about the dangers of the site. Alas, our busy schedule at the time prevented us from finishing this design project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245372172-UD83NFYTFO1IS5WHKN2C/EPSON120.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK For Disney's Descendants, we were tasked with inventing a field sport befitting the sons of princes and dragon slayers. We invented Tourney, a modern version of medieval combat games. The normally sleepy midfield is kept moving by "dragon fire" shot from these cannons - whose shape evokes a very famous Disney dragon that later makes an appearance in the film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245356731-I6UUMORA64L2RFCL4PND/IMG_0493.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is one of the two finished "dragon fire" cannons that keep the game moving on the Tourney field in Disney's Descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245377422-8NQYYH6LC2CHE8XOUKG7/EPSON116.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Disney's Descendants begins in the crowded slums of an Alcatraz-style prison island, the Isle of the Lost. Here every classic Disney villain and their henchman have been rounded up and place behind an enchanted barrier that leaves them powerless. So they eke out their miserable lives in poverty and rage. We jammed the open streets of the location with a thieves market of shacks and squalor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245377524-NAUSQ8RK4M4G87SBGHAZ/EPSON115.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK We also made all kinds of ramshackle bracing to make it look like the whole place was about to fall down. The idea is that every slat and board on the Isle is on at least its 5th use in life. We called all this garbage-shackery "Slumatecture". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245359058-R3JQH3OLWIXRI09LV2KU/IMG_0478.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK More rickety Slumatecture on the Isle of the Lost in Disney's Descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514361690-BITBY59SEJVOMEIFQ6MG/C9-%232x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Sketch of the snowboarder's Snack Shack for Cloud 9. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512790995-8LVF77TDC1OVQ5UN8ZT5/DSC05205x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The final, prefabbed shack built on top of a 12 deep pad of compacted snow, at 9,000 feet in elevation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512774374-KRSIEZG61JNY1HZ7XI53/Machine-Overall-1x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK My initial sketch of the dastardly weather control machine for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512761355-Y5BWDUH4UOCPQJM0EPG7/Control-Unit-1x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the weather machine's control unit and proposed light for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512779977-M0MGHME43QFBSSRRAJ39/lights-1x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the final practical light fixtures for the weather control machine in Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392512760876-A2UAKM4R6PZQU6YH2KFL/DSC03769-2x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The completed weather control machine is hidden inside an abandoned lighthouse set. The central machine spun in two different directions and had telescopic elements. VFX added Godzilla-style lightning bolts from the four surrounding "Atomic Piles" to the center of the whirling machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245375009-LIJNNI1Z4CT6468428E7/EPSON117.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In Teen Beach Movie, the plot of the film within the film is a turf war between comedic gangs of bikers and surfers for control of Big Momma's snack shack. Here was my first sketch/draft of the Polynesian-inspired restaurant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245379412-VQNQCZX4EOJSF6PJEVUZ/DSC03877x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And here is the finished Big Momma's Snack Shack on the beach in Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245374950-XEMBQSBJ4JSSDN3K4JBW/EPSON119.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here's my first sketch Pop's Surf Shop for Teen Beach Movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245379252-2NS0MCJ93YM94TMY8LXC/DSC04174x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And here it is completed, just down the beach From Big Momma's Snack Shack in Puerto Rico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514102824-ZUJ98MR42AVFY0CDVPFO/PIGx.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - pig.jpg Sketches of signage for street scenes in "Let it Shine" (2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392514054972-40EBRQRWH0MIQK5FTZA4/RAPBATTLEx.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - rapbattle.jpg Concept sketch for a rap battle stage for "Let it Shine" (2012). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703366-6TREGINV3GDN2BNFAQC0/pirate.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - pirate.jpg This is a projection drawing for a multi-layered facade that became the entrance to a pirate-themed restaurant in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521124133-K6ECV58UF71O2ZNX2XC4/DSC01155x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - dsc01155.jpg Here is the finished set-piece for the pirate-themed restaurant entrance in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755704296-OG8JM415XR1UD3V1Q256/shack.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - shack.jpg This is a sketch of an abandoned mining shack that became a war games headquarters. We ended up not building the exterior on location in red rock country, but we did build the interior on stage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392521761361-PZH2YMRTIT4GIQCA2GYG/IMG_0471x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - img_0471.jpg This is an interior shot of the Quonset hut section of the abandoned mining shack stage set in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755704321-GY6G1QC7YK3E8VK8ZBM3/stone.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - stone.jpg This sketch is of "Stone of Mitrios", the trophy in an elaborate war game in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703469-CI31XJRBC257HD4FJSLD/dsc01265.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - dsc01265.jpg The finished "Stone of Mitrios" on its podium on the battlefield in "Good Luck Charlie, it's Christmas" (2011). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948841358-8VX9B7RWKXB34F52LQKR/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_17.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948842188-81DWO7XQETC5WISBA0MZ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_18.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948838214-AI0H7POBQGZCZ7OLT4P6/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_14.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948839639-BKDLKQK3FRFN2XRJZ1X8/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_16.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948838909-40PWSXUADGDAK7R2O3PI/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_15.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK As you can see, puppetry was going to be a big part of the Biblical musical project I was approached about conceiving. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948844579-2K0ULIESMKO46Q2S0OMJ/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_20.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK On the Biblical musical I was asked to conceive, not all the team members had film experience. I wanted to show them how cool, theatrical, in-camera effects could help them tell the story in an unexpected and cost-effective way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948836588-JQ7986CR5HIECH5IF7VP/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_12.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948837289-W6LR2VUEA45W5FWBVFQ7/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_13.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is a basic storyboard I made for them to help them understand my take on a tricky dream sequence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948845097-VFN6LRVWFUT56BI0IJH3/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_21.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1702948842783-BZE9AU7A0V1M4OEVWLQB/Mark+Site+Scans+2023_Page_19.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK In 2016 I was approached by a group of people wanting to make a Biblical musical. These are preliminary sketches of that yet-unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522328442-A7OMRI22GMWOD5RERCBA/GF-2x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK I recently Art Directed a little mini-series for the Discovery Channel for production designer Ernesto Solo. It was about the California Gold Rush. Here is a notebook sketch I did on location to show how we might build a little mill in the upper Provo Falls in Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522445703-MGJXVDB9LYVIVD92LWAW/SAWMILLx.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - sawmill.jpg An alternate idea for a less finished sawmill in the Upper Provo Falls, Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522497770-YZMSE9QGPW7L46Y20XBK/GF-3x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch is of the 2 sided mill and wheel we built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522527549-BKPFI1C7RHN9F8C4JCCF/GF-4x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This sketch was to explain to the production how a 19th-century gold sluice would work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522557067-OLZPBRA51ACS0O7ANLY1/GF-Washer-1x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a sketch of a Gold Washer, an expensive device that promised to do the work of hundreds of men panning for gold in river sediment. Like most of these devices, it didn't work. We built an approximation of a gold washer extrapolated from what few research images we could find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522601259-7M9Q7DGCCVYPU7BFWH6E/GF-Washer-2x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the crank and hand-pump end of the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522633311-IJTXEJHPXII7XDGAP68T/GF-Washer-0x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is an isometric sketch of the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522657979-TL8ZLMIDNA4GL86P48X2/GF-Washer-4x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the wooden parts required to build the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392522701878-HZ9HVD54GTUQCIKQK1QD/GF-Washer-3x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A sketch of the sheet metal and steel parts we would need to bend for the gold washer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392523013098-AI16P3ZS4OIINMC4PMAO/IMG_0457x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a photo of the finished gold washer. In the story, it is brand new and pulled out of the crate in the California gold fields after the journey west. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392524005268-1FCGJFJS5LCDTYGAOQBS/GF-Quicksilver-1x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Another method of extracting gold featured in Discovery Channel's Gold Fever was a device called a quicksilver machine, which used a reservoir of mercury to separate gold from sediment. Here is a sketch of the machine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703606-SZW24LTBLUAS1MMZ33JC/dam.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - dam.jpg A sketch of the dam diversion technique of gold prospecting for Discovery Channel's Gold Fever. We built this in a remote oxbow of the Bear River in Northern Utah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245371649-05J03E1TR9UEBS007DTJ/EPSON121.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK I partnered with an aircraft recycler to repurpose large aircraft engine parts into a furniture line. Here's the sketch of the first prototype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245380026-U1J9N543G5Z5UO7U76ER/aviation-turbine-above-mark-hofeling.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK And here is the finished prototype. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392530544410-YN9S2BMG233E01JD8S6W/skb_52x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The first conceptual drawing for the "Wizard's Cave" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392530578184-O4YO6ATTEHP5MYJUT20A/skb_53x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A working drawing for the torches and hammered reflectors for the "Wizard Cave" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525401749-WR39LXY981DIEKU23HWH/skb_54x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed "Wizard Cave" complete with torches from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). The strange light effect around the base of the walls was to light the green screen studio floor (here protected under cardboard) to create the effect of a bottomless pit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525365124-2P2L52I9SXH8RI1KVEDG/skb_55x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A final scene in the "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009) called for a wizard battle on a wide-open field on the Puerto Rican coast. I came up with the idea of druid-like concentric rings of obelisks surrounding a stone table that held the sought-after object. Here is an early conceptual drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525436911-2RHIUXCL23C58Z9RN5OT/skb_56x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This working drawing illustrates how we pulled the "stone" columns out of the "Wizard Cave" and re-purposed them to be used as the obelisks for the Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525490414-P2GNFX3AT5KEUEX86ICT/skb_57x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Here is a working drawing for a ring of mystical ribbon-banners that surrounded the concentric stone circles for the "Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie"(2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525582148-0RNXU9FA513D5DSNKEFW/skb_58x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK This is a working drawing for the stone table in the center of the concentric obelisks that holds the sought-after, magical object in the "Wizard Battle" scene from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525800491-UY3ZSIG9TXA4CZ9EY97C/skb_59x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of part of the completed "Wizard Battle" set from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525827832-6R5IQR4LBKZR20NST5L3/skb_60x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A conceptual drawing for a ruined "Garita" that guard's the beginning of a magical path through the jungle in "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525857252-RR6UCQ9RS4T7KE60UPJF/skb_61x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A working drawing based on the conceptual drawing of the ruined "Garita" from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525915106-YEDYLP12B1HXZU1BXY3V/skb_62x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed ruined "Garita" set on a beach on the edge of a dense jungle in Puerto Rico from "The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie" (2009). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392525994578-29EDHW0NY4JHN9GM7ILV/skb_44x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The very first notebook sketch for Troy's treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). The set required the sinking of three 50' tree trunks 6' into the ground in a suburban backyard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526165959-FH1DSLLZPR06L230UZ3P/skb_45x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The first notebook illustration of the final look of Troy's treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526195025-X03CMZQP9US1JC9FMFU7/skb_46x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A simple model I built to help construction determine the pitch and spread of the three imported tree trunks and how they would intersect with the treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526291849-6EWP443DJ3AQFOS0ZZJE/skb_47x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed treehouse from "High School Musical 3" (2008). The oversized deck was required to accommodate the choreography for the musical number "Right here, right now". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526378792-MM51ZSFLN00HWKLSD0GQ/skb_48x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK The very first notebook sketch for the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number in "High School Musical 3" (2008). The idea was that Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale) and Ryan (Lucas Grabeel) would cruise through a stylized Manhattan toward the camera in their taxi, which then would open up to reveal Sharpay's fantasy Broadway dressing room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526411347-AAQE7O8Q1MHPMXJI8ZAJ/skb_49x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number from "High School Musical 3" (2008). Here it's in its "Taxi" configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526454057-VQ70R7M090ZNJQXMEF7J/skb_50x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the "Taxi/dressing room" element for the "I Want it All" musical number from "High School Musical 3" (2008). Here it is in its "dressing room" configuration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526554835-Y2QUWAEY8WPPU50GVWWA/skb_31x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526636047-49PHQ5SPTREW3V2I0NDB/skb_33x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526683642-5G4R7OFRG5544UCZENZP/skb_34x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Conceptual sketch for a yet-to-be-realized, end of the world themed event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526747973-CA1V8DVQGADHXK561V9H/skb_28x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Preliminary sketch for Lycus' House for a theatrical production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526794297-0JUGZ82XZYECYW8K4AEI/skb_29x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Final color sketch for the Roman street scene in "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526878605-UPE7N36SEPCS9RV2EF8G/dancing-girlsX.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A shot of the finished set for "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392526973057-2JL8P4QZEV4UO0TGKLMR/skb_40x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Full-color working drawing for the multiple "kelp towers" for the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006)/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392527030034-FZ3A8C59T5WRX0WC8YDA/skb_41x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Full-color working drawing for the articulated whale for the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392527226256-3VAWY2QHBL40F70D2QDH/dance4x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A photo of the completed articulated whale and kelp towers at the "Deep Blue Sea" themed prom scene from "Read it and Weep" (2006). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755702997-0YX96AF1GVRSB8Q288WV/skb_12.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Jester" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392528784893-N538B51BH32WKU7WAQ5F/skb_13x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "King" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703722-E7DQ807WF740EA672F68/devil.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - devil.jpg "The Devil" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392528947782-IKTTIXLBZ1H9N43DVM61/RSRPO014x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Lobster" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529100896-2EP1FYYGBPHWKP5MBOGV/skb_17x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Royal Rut" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529128027-HD7KT3OLPNM0S4RX3W8T/skb_18x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Vacuum" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529236612-6YFX4TK9L64NRTJAZNQ7/skb_21x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Chief Constable" character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529409850-VYQ5Z754XW6VQ324U9K8/skb_25x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Gavel/Prize" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529451703-HT4YLPOUY7XZT0Z6FN0A/skb_26x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Pilloried "Jester" set for bloody execution character sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1382755703627-Y570UNAT3USIX09M6JVA/deus.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK - deus.jpg "Deus Ex Machina" character from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529655208-RX7IS6QZ14CFXGAJE4Z1/skb_24x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK "Card/brief/wig" prop sketch from an unproduced puppet opera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529708558-U6B3175ZKREMRI9COA4E/skb_51x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK A conceptual drawing for a stage proscenium for a live music television show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529741539-PBNX51XSZNLQN8PMB5QZ/skb_6x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529763522-3BN9YGWRCRPYFBT1IRLH/skb_10x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529803528-UH9SBBQC5YBZAI48SK46/skb_5x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529835435-GJ8X895OJ6XHYCJU0V46/skb_4x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529876946-5W6ZUOWFBX7301SGGBRQ/skb_11x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392529909124-2OLUH67GC1HMBE449F80/skb_8x.jpg MARK'S SKETCH BOOK Robot character sketch for an unproduced project. https://www.markhofeling.com/notarealpage6 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://www.markhofeling.com/notarealpage2 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://www.markhofeling.com/showreel daily 0.75 2024-07-29 https://www.markhofeling.com/credits daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/139f837f-a0b4-4a01-be7d-274ae54109d8/mark-hofeling-production-design.jpg BIO / CREDITS / PRESS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/c8258d15-ed2d-4a12-b9e8-8aa32aa5b8ad/Descendants%3A+The+Rise+of+Red--CAFE04-JS4_1933.jpg BIO / CREDITS / PRESS - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.markhofeling.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/857c0f2c-59e0-495b-874c-e09c30f3ef09/IAG-logo-blue.png CONTACT https://www.markhofeling.com/notarealpage3 daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://www.markhofeling.com/airbnbhaus-2015 daily 0.75 2015-02-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913620846-TSZOOH43K7K2GV8QWN00/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150123_1243_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913449199-WRM9FIBFTXPIDHSZFO2B/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150113_0027_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 After the success of Airbnb's 2014 Haus, My partner Matias Alvarez and I were contacted directly to reimagine their aesthetic in a more central, Main Street location, with a greater economy of space. Working with partners and an excellent crew, we transformed 591 Main into an intriguing and functional artist's live/workspace that invited relaxation, participation, and respite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913450878-O3ADRJZ1U8VTGS7B915U/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150123_1252_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 The feel was comfortable but uncluttered. Small islands of cozy seating offset the mostly functional work and art-making space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917973551-ZO6PB3IPK27CY0YMJ3IR/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150113_00655_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 Casual, understated cool at Airbnb's Haus, Sundance 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913450261-O88MLEMPY85ELZTSD9VU/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150123_1243_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 One of the shotgun space's focal points was the stage. The portable custom riser functioned as a vignette for guests by day, a stage for speakers and musicians at night. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913451157-SOM1Q5WODECASHEMEUEP/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150123_1266_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 The long, narrow space forced us to think about how to create comfort, interest, and variable programmability in a very linear dimension. Custom furnishings were designed to be fully portable to allow rapid change-overs and maximum flexibility of the challenging space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913451972-JB3KWILDLTLCNQ8RF6VN/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150124_0216_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 One thing the elongated, narrow venue did not lack was wall space. The client wanted an engaging gallery wall with a wide range of art and objects to invite exploration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913449316-Y85A96ULYHOM8OGV0VEB/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150113_0023_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 As they did with great effect in 2014, Airbnb again partnered with the Four Barrel coffee guys from SF, and Salt Lake's own Church and State mixologists. Knowing how popular they both were last year, we enlarged and fortified their bar and work area for Sundance 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913451666-DOCFWF02RN47R0M75Q6A/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150124_0213_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 The Four Barrel team hard at work fueling Sundance 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913452656-W9BNJBBHMNS5WRZNFZ5B/Marketing-Event_Park-City_Sundance_Derballa_150126_0799_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 591 Main is lucky to have a little frontage along an alley in Park City. And Sundance 2015's unseasonably warm weather extended the footprint of the Airbnb Haus outside where guests enjoyed fire pits and cozy wool blankets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424913452986-76M06TAYOAWEBBAY0DS0/sundance2015_parkcity_derballa_22jan2015_00034_X.jpg Airbnb Haus, Sundance 2015 With their new, whimsical graphic look for 2015, this mural on the side of the venue let everyone know where to look for their favorite spot from the year before. https://www.markhofeling.com/ufc2015 daily 0.75 2016-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917280072-5FPTHSAS0RC0Q6XV2E51/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-d.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917360738-P4NQZA9UTZLFQ0LCPLDC/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-a.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 For Sundance 2015, the Utah Film Commission, under new management, wanted to try something new to help the thousands of film industry professionals who visit the state for the festival understand all the Beehive state has to offer any potential production. Taking an important lesson from the success of my work on Airbnb's 2014 Haus, My partner Matias Alvarez and I proposed building on the idea of Utah being the host state, and welcoming visitors "Home". The notion of Grandma's comfortable, familiar living room came to mind, where a weary festival goer could put their feet up in unpretentious ease, have a cookie and some coffee, and hopefully learn a little about Utah's almost 100-year-old film industry. Thus, the Utah Film Commission's "Living Room" was born. Here is our exterior signage and projection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917359845-TOI35WEKLZNPK7DDVJM8/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-b.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 The Park City Museum normally has a historic fire engine parked in this glass double door. Matias and I saw it as a perfect sidewalk cinema. We commissioned video artist Conor Provenzano to cull countless hours from the hundreds of films made in Utah and create a 30-minute film loop of striking images from over a century of Utah cinema. Sadly a little dim in this photo, the art piece captivated curious festival-goers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917362724-B82TDPKS6Z27WK7TTE36/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-g.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 Inside the venue, we not only wanted to create a universally comfortable lounge that would remind everyone of home but to playfully deconstruct Grandma's house into as much a film set as a living room. Walls were flats that we gapped in order to show the studio void and lights beyond, on the walls of which we projected a distorted version of Conor Provenzano's beautiful film loop, creating an intriguing light and energy beyond boundaries of the familiar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917361622-VPI4Y7IZE7XLTSZ8EJKX/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-d.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 Another view of the Utah Film Commission's "Living Room" at Sundance 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917361828-78HYPLN1Y51ANMQFRZ84/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-e.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 A good view of Conor Provenzano's brilliant film loop outside the walls of the Utah Film Commission's "Living Room". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917360827-UDVBK6GOQ3TYWQ8YWWNS/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-c.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 The "Living Room" spilled outside the "set" we created and occupied more of the Park City Museum's gallery space. Les Booth perfectly decorated it in the same theme. And we found loads of historic posters from some of the Beehive State's long-forgotten film projects to adorn the walls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1424917362720-HLLC4MZNOA17S3VNS9UV/utah-film-commission-sundance-2015-f.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2015 Another view of the Living Room. https://www.markhofeling.com/decendants daily 0.75 2015-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521418532516-5DSAFC19CS1YRGQVJSYI/IMG_0415.jpg Descendants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438558017419-I59OQABUS7UYWOII25ZN/Disney+Descendants+Creating+the+Worlds Descendants Disney's "Descendants" – Creating the Worlds (S. David Acuff) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438559289901-EWWYS6A98164A3RLORAN/image-asset.png Descendants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437581840303-RZY200X1GEXEJ9VW18S4/135912_7051.jpg Descendants Disney’s Descendants is a story that finds a fairy tale world divided, with all of the Disney heritage villains having been captured and banished to a dismal, overcrowded prison Island, while the Disney heritage princesses and heroes live in royal splendor in the overly-perfected and villain-free Kingdom of Auradon across the bay. Dove Cameron as Mal (daughter of the mighty Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty) in front of her Maleficent-inspired street art on the Isle of the Lost. (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582510214-XWR3J0MIMF2M82J6018B/descendants.jpg Descendants Mal (Dove Cameron) conspires with her mother Maleficent (Kristin Chenoweth) on the Isle of the Lost. The Isle is a combination of Alcatraz, a Turkish Bazaar, and John Water's Baltimore. With the entirety of Disney's stable of villains imprisoned here, the color palette had to reflect their very particular taste. After a careful study of classic Disney villainy, I took all their purples, blacks, burgundies, and acid greens, and drenched them with 20 years of soot, rust, grime, and grit. I called the resulting palette "Dirty Candy". (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582768768-3MYRPCOONDCVRD6KQD8Y/Descendants-36.png Descendants A view over the slum of the Isle of the Lost looking toward beautiful Auradon across the bay. (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438558078993-1VX5AR36KOQKPT39E38P/disney+descendants+behind+the+scenes-mark+hofleing-3.jpg Descendants The main street on the Isle of the Lost. © (DISNEY CHANNEL/Jeff Weddell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946106307-JVX1EAQAWLQNYJW3LDKT/IMG_0394.jpg Descendants Another view of the main street of the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946090735-6ZU3RAF8H6X1S5C1DHXY/IMG_0395.jpg Descendants A view of the Fortune Tellers shacks from the covered Thieve's Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946099437-7Z31CXGN6P3XYMPT9BK3/IMG_0359.jpg Descendants View down the main street of the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946116275-5Z98KPB5HQ36SRKTKRI4/IMG_0496.jpg Descendants Another view of the main street of the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946107102-LI933WHD89GQ6YX8KOL6/IMG_0383.jpg Descendants Life on the Isle of the Lost is miserable for its once-powerful residents. Upon being banished here, all their magic and witchcraft were disabled by a magical shield. So they mostly just steal and sell and re-steal and resell the same old junk and useless trinkets to and from each other. This shows the hairdresser's shack on the main street of the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946110126-79U4C4I5LHOCW9AR3G2N/IMG_0460.jpg Descendants Street detail on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946110961-EIOZMU7G1UZTEGEV403I/IMG_0469.jpg Descendants The rickety rooftop where Jay- son of Jafar - (Booboo Stewart) is introduced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946102299-9I6KXS2SP72NVUTW7F2P/IMG_0367.jpg Descendants Detail of the Fortune Teller's shacks on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946104621-E536QD0M0Z2TQXR67EN7/IMG_0378.jpg Descendants Street detail on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946115701-6Q9YH8BWRQDNW2V6OVTO/IMG_0480.jpg Descendants Street detail of vendor's shacks on the Isle of the Lost. The vendor on the right of the frame specializes in broken ladders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438558078214-PL7VNYSUF40T6C5OMXVZ/disney+descendants+behind+the+scenes-mark+hofleing-2.jpg Descendants This is a detail of the cheerful and largely hopeless propaganda campaign the good people of Auradon paste-up on the streets of the Isle in hopes of rehabilitating the fallen villains. In no time at all the people of the Isle make their feelings known. © (DISNEY CHANNEL/Jeff Weddell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946073067-QZK8CZRGF04Y444QZ86O/IMG_0332.jpg Descendants The vendor on the left sells the highest quality, slightly bruised produce from Auradon. The one on the right sells the more typical Isle fare, toadstools, nightshade, assorted rot, and all varieties of curdle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946081333-IBB6BEQMD1U86XV2S7DX/IMG_0334.jpg Descendants Another vendor in the Thieve's Market. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582512239-165TERNNV4JJVXC2005H/jay.jpg Descendants Jay (Booboo Stewart) shows off his acrobatic thieving skills in the crowded bazaar on the Isle of the Lost. (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438558080112-LSRMXQJPDZOSKMXYLBDA/disney+descendants+behind+the+scenes-mark+hofleing-5.jpg Descendants One of the many shanties/booths in the market where the once-powerful residents of the Isle of the Lost sell, steal, resell and re-steal the same tired old trinkets and goods to each other. © (DISNEY CHANNEL/Jeff Weddell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1438558079236-39MLKUVTUGVM3JMR4XBF/disney+descendants+behind+the+scenes-mark+hofleing-4.jpg Descendants Another booth in the market on the Isle of the Lost full of busted-up junk. © (DISNEY CHANNEL/Jeff Weddell) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946113420-VM84OSU1KQAD879K7SXJ/IMG_0478.jpg Descendants Someone's bed jammed between two rickety towers in the Bazaar on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946096649-QREHFYTTZ1N4VUHGVY1U/IMG_0353.jpg Descendants Another of the earnest propaganda graphics the good people of Auradon plaster around the wretched Isle in the futile hope of rehabilitating its imprisoned inhabitants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946122738-ZRK62TY1DFL35T6JVEDZ/IMG_0521.jpg Descendants We imagined the once-mighty Maleficent humiliated and furious in defeat. Even in her fallen state, she would still require the most befitting accommodation on the Isle of the Lost. The "Bargain Castle", while hokey and ramshackle, most resembles her former keep in the Forbidden Mountains. And its balcony gives her an unobstructed view across the bay to the hated Auradon. This is the exterior of the second floor, interior set. This was digitally added to a practical ground floor at the end of the main street of the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1445031702850-W6X5FTJ1Y14GE5A2I5Q4/IMG_0415.jpg Descendants A broad view of Maleficent's cavernous, leaky, drafty cold-water walk-up in the Bargain Castle on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946154305-LGVT19YHTZZNOY5R0LFF/IMG_0546.jpg Descendants Maleficent's sunken living room with her unreliable Predicta TV. It is her only link to the outside world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946124664-46ARRD01BGKSA2Q6Z502/IMG_0531.jpg Descendants The mismatched sofa in Maleficent's sunken living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946139366-9JBO0LWOV1SSKY8D0H2L/IMG_0533.jpg Descendants A view of Maleficent's dressing area and her elevated throne. Domesticity is not among her considerable powers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946163963-TKOI0FKG1WXB995W85GR/IMG_0541.jpg Descendants We wanted to give Maleficent one artifact from her former, magnificent life. The director suggested maybe her throne. Unfortunately, the throne from the original animation was a 12 foot wide, 6 ton stone bat. Not a practical thing to carry into exile. So I tried to evoke the idea of that throne with a ridiculous green and purple wingback chair she might have confiscated from the Isle's Bazaar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946173193-KSD375ET8R1RSMQ6T8D6/IMG_0555.jpg Descendants The job of the production designer is to conceive and execute the broad look of a show. But the big picture is built out of thousands of details. I spent my weekends in Vancouver having a ball cooking up little details like Maleficent's childlike "REVENGE", "FOOLS!", and spinning wheel magnets, and her shopping and to-do lists, all stuck to her "WICKEDAIRE" refrigerator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946130939-HNOVD2ZFQGAM6BKE8T66/IMG_0525.jpg Descendants A detail of Maleficent's poorly tuned piano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1445031702043-CRFYATBUIK8RPZAPE5KN/IMG_0406+2.jpg Descendants Maleficent's scratchy Victrola. Notice the double helix of the custom wallpaper. It evokes both Maleficent's classic thorn vine's from Sleeping Beauty and the idea of the DNA of evil. Does it pass from one generation to the next, or can one change their destiny? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946119892-77LRU3Y30SJ1MY7VF9WF/IMG_0519.jpg Descendants A detail of one of Maleficent's many broken, drafty windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582511420-45KOJXD0EC11KP6MRU7D/descendants-3.jpg Descendants Carlos (Cameron Boyce), Mal (Dove Cameron), Evie (Sofia Carson), and Jay (Booboo Stewart) conspire in Maleficent's ratty apartment on the Isle of the Lost. (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437581840738-A2GKL9SH8TUF2PWEH075/tumblr_nn2mrqRKzL1svizcpo10_1280.jpg Descendants Mal (Dove Cameron) broods below her imperious mother Maleficent (Kristin Chenoweth) in her ratty apartment on the Isle of the Lost. (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946325294-CNKR7IDNPM49P741Y1CU/IMG_0646.jpg Descendants The four children from the Isle of the Lost leave the slummy island of their youth and arrive at the impossibly stately and regal Auradon prep school. Here we augmented the already gorgeous Hatley Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582508573-WYSYBH0BCCPGQBJIA8E2/635646919229757854-DESCENDANTS-DISNEY03.JPG Descendants Having been transplanted from their prison on the Isle of the Lost to the gorgeous mainland of Auradon, the Villain Kids struggle to fit in. From left to right: Evie (Sofia Carson), Jay (Booboo Stewart), Mal (Dove Cameron), and Carlos (Cameron Boyce). (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946286284-3JYEXB3BUIOTSVNMBFBG/IMG_0655.jpg Descendants The pink, pretty girl's dorm room is horrifying to the girls from the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946289127-SG5WAXXN6IY3GINQ4ZM8/IMG_0658.jpg Descendants Another view of the girl's dorm room in Auradon prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946263055-L6Q9W2LZ2G4TC2QW862S/IMG_0635.jpg Descendants The boy's dorm room in Auradon prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946268474-42QSCEJMKL1C4HD3BQBC/IMG_0636.jpg Descendants Another view of the boy's dorm room in Auradon prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946307270-CE76FSR3STIL5WA8I03S/IMG_0683.jpg Descendants The exterior of the classroom building at Auradon prep. We added banks of lockers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946310933-MZ5YTWRO83BILNNSC7JN/IMG_0699.jpg Descendants The "Remedial Goodness" classroom at Auradon prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946274213-X6086RSSA30BBP5ZFEDS/IMG_0639.jpg Descendants The gorgeous setting for Family Day at Auradon prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946280885-475G21AYN76LI3O27IH9/IMG_0640.jpg Descendants Detail of the Family Day celebration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946260124-FYY80ENCFNPELIX7MMNJ/IMG_0631.jpg Descendants Detail of the Family Day garden party and celebration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946296784-N08NICO1HINUHJAQ5W4B/IMG_0674.jpg Descendants The backside of the Auradon prep dormitory is ready to host the big celebration following young King Ben's (Mitchell Hope) coronation. The stage is actually a precarious build over a delicate, 100-year-old fountain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946299236-6HRR04YG05QHT3KGUFGR/IMG_0675.jpg Descendants Ready to shoot the post-coronation party. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946250907-WJEDYLIXUFQYFS0R6A57/IMG_0619.jpg Descendants Young Prince Ben's (Mitchell Hope) royal bedroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946256518-NNZJ0QCL9HU31INVZOMU/IMG_0618.jpg Descendants A detail of the Tourney (the official sport of Auradon) achievements of Prince Ben (Mitchell Hope) in his royal bedroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946252410-8M3K1G3FV9DONYIX4BPB/IMG_0628.jpg Descendants All the heritage artifacts of mighty Auradon, good and bad are collected at the Museum of Cultural History. Here is the sign by the front entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946210634-V57SHL4L7ZDRQSJXG11D/IMG_0579.jpg Descendants The grand lobby of the Museum of Cultural History. The famed spinning wheel from Sleeping Beauty resides under the armor of Arthurian knights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946218892-SCIUZ8O4KLEZRFSXN59D/IMG_0583.jpg Descendants A detail shot of the famed spinning wheel from Sleeping Beauty in the Museum of Cultural History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946229530-YZSU28ZD9JJJQM7HNF8C/IMG_0587.jpg Descendants The wand gallery in the Museum of Cultural History, wherein resides the greatest magical object in all Auradon, Fairy Godmother's wand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946183975-DPSVI2AQCJKYQNG5POMR/IMG_0562.jpg Descendants A detail of the plinth for Maleficent's wax figure in the Museum of Cultural History, a character piece based on her former haunt in the Forbidden Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946355571-DXWB51FB7FH8P4GGNXS4/Descendants-101.jpg Descendants A screenshot of the finished VFX Gallery of the Villains set featuring the (about to spring to life) wax figure of Maleficent (Kristin Chenoweth) on her plinth in the Museum of Cultural History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946318113-MYV45QKTGVX4H1C6USHT/IMG_0715.jpg Descendants We were tasked with creating a sport for the boys of Auradon prep and the transplanted boys from the Isle of the Lost to compete in. Because the students of the school are the sons of dragon slayers, kings, and princes, we came up with a game that would be evocative of their father's heroism in feats of combat, yet still have a modern field-sports vibe that would reflect the kind of games modern high school students would recognize. We call it "Tourney", French for “tournament”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946324363-RTWGKPZ9NKNNLQF2OU3B/IMG_0717.jpg Descendants The goal, or "keep" is reminiscent of the gate to a castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946337695-EKGDJPLOCS5OR43G2PIC/IMG_0720.jpg Descendants Three points are scored hitting the ball into the net of the "keep", one point is scored by hitting the ball between the uprights under the castellations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946315672-JA37CH3A09XL726FTW3X/IMG_0714.jpg Descendants Since the center of any playing field is often where play slows down, we created the "kill zone" to make the center field much more active. The zone is guarded by two "Dragoniers", one from each team. The Dragoniers evoke the idea of dragon-fire that the previous generation faced. Red and yellow, high-velocity bean bags fire from the "dragon's" mouth, a direct hit is a game-ending event for a player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946204605-K9BQUQ9WUIACQUX9JB62/IMG_0493.jpg Descendants A detail of one of the Dragoniers. They are rapid-fire air cannons that shoot painful but non-injuring bean bags to simulate the dragon fire the player’s father's once faced. The black flex-track creates the reptile's throat and feeds the bean bags to the gun. The silhouette is a reductive portrait of a dragon with which the people of Auradon are uncomfortably familiar (it's Maleficent). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946340711-R9ZLA193IT87Z2IWTNEC/IMG_0719.jpg Descendants The Knights and the Falcons face off in the Kill Zone. The uniforms and gear of the players evoke their father's days of glory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946246165-OX6G83VTXLQGGA669UMH/IMG_0553+%281%29.jpg Descendants The royal carriage ready to transport Ben and Mal to the coronation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946249185-CEHEDGQO11IAQPGWVBUG/IMG_0614.jpg Descendants The royal carriage arrives for the coronation. The royal palette of Auradon comes from Belle and the Beast's costumes from the dance scene in Beauty and the Beast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946234376-UFB5JFKLI08939Y2V9ZO/IMG_0608.jpg Descendants The court of Auradon awaits the arrival of the Prince. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946118286-8OGXRTB3VAH4N8GFXS62/IMG_0505.jpg Descendants The throne dais for the royal coronation. The design for the coronation cathedral was completed in VFX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946292795-C5GLT4RBP5CW3CPXCUHD/IMG_0670.jpg Descendants A shot of the thrones of the King and Queen of Auradon. Note that the shape of the backrest is also that of all of Auradon's federal signage. The structure of the back and sides of the thrones are "A's". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946122210-0RBAHE0TBT20L9BF5MY9/IMG_0508.jpg Descendants Fairy Godmother's all-powerful wand awaits the ceremony under its enchanted glass bell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1437582761129-FXMUM7N8RU4DIANP8VFG/Descendants-77.png Descendants A very famous dragon appears at the coronation (it’s Maleficent). (Disney Publicity photo) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946351503-9Z8HR9OFWV3AZBOVRN2I/unnamed-18+12.12.00+PM.jpg Descendants Eden is an especially enchanted place in the enchanted kingdom of Auradon. Young Prince Ben brings Mal here for their first date. I wanted to create a gorgeous ruin from the age of Auradon's heroism to set the stage for their budding romance. We humped this Greek-style temple into the beauty of Lynn Canyon outside Vancouver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1444946349176-VE0FY9JMH4R9T3U4GUFW/unnamed-18+12.07.47+PM.jpg Descendants Another view of the temple ruin in beautiful Eden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1407192518097-KHN0ZBTP2H6SQTPG2PIK/dove-cameron-dec-17-2013-descendants.jpg Descendants A still from our creative presentation of the art and design of Descendants to executives from all departments of Disney. From left to right: Kenny Ortega, director: Dove Cameron, lead actor; Kara Saun, costume designer; Mark Hofeling, production designer. (Disney Publicity photo) https://www.markhofeling.com/invisiblesister daily 0.75 2016-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521418370925-XUHJQUJT47OICYQQD5WD/IMG_1453.jpg Invisible Sister https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900069881-T68P357OMDUSTPSGKZO4/IMG_1078.jpg Invisible Sister Invisible Sister is a family comedy set in contemporary New Orleans at Halloween. In addition to having the rare treat of shooting a city AS itself, we also got to play with the rich festival traditions of New Orleans, and go beyond even that to make our own version of a special, regional Halloween. This Beautiful Garden District house became the hero family's home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900071812-2CFI9UC3F09E6EPNSYSL/IMG_1149.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of the family home in the Garden District. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900070894-F4XNS4J05CD3JHKSZA9H/IMG_1123.jpg Invisible Sister The living room of the family home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900069952-3YS2R9G4NBENKJ3QRUC3/IMG_1093.jpg Invisible Sister Like many historic houses in the area, this one is built on 7-foot pilings to spare it from floods. That afforded us the opportunity to put a potting shed in that space, with a view of the backyard and swimming pool. This becomes geeky sister Cleo's (Rowan Blanchard) science lab, while popular sister's (Paris Berelc) high school party rages outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900070788-I4EPNWUKW0849RU45Q84/IMG_1097.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of the added potting shed, showing the swimming pool outside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900071710-F9FFC6B2JUVJ70E832IW/IMG_1180.jpg Invisible Sister We built the upper floor of the family home as a stage set. This is Cleo's (Rowan Blanchard) room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900072428-8U79Y1WDWVBJ4HKIXIL7/IMG_1181.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of Cleo's (Rowan Blanchard) room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900072757-C9GN7ICAEOU3R31OZKOI/IMG_1187.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of Cleo's (Rowan Blanchard) room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900073517-E2QKEGF4OJZMD9X9LNHH/IMG_1202.jpg Invisible Sister Invisible Sister centers around the story of two sisters who are so similar in some ways they ought to be twins, but who also have very divergent personalities. So we made their rooms mirror images in design, but very different in finish and decoration. This is popular, athletic sister Molly's (Paris Berelc) room across the hall from Cleo's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900074138-OD91KNYAYSMPSV9BZL9S/IMG_1209.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of Molly's (Paris Berelc) room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900074330-KRM0P9GGHP07H8PNO7L8/IMG_1210-1.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of Molly's (Paris Berelc) room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1455062608476-56NHOL3NJD2K8DNPP8SI/IMG_1173.jpg Invisible Sister The girl's bathroom had some invisibility trickery that required the twin mirrors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900073143-TVI6NXDGGM0U2U9SH0ZQ/IMG_1197.jpg Invisible Sister Cleos' best guy friend George, (Karan Brar) is even more of a science geek than she is. This little contraption is his preferred mode of transportation. It was an electric scooter we heavily modified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900075742-1304YLPBBMMWYT14S4J1/IMG_1226.jpg Invisible Sister During Molly's (Paris Berelc) bout with invisibility, she ducks into the high school boy's room to steal a full-body costume. We really wanted to play up how disgusting a young girl's first encounter with a boy's room would be. So we built a stage set we could really trash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900075729-V1WMP0T9DI14NL098B1D/IMG_1230.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of the trashed high school boy’s room stage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900076741-MCRK0CLU2X2BF4F9UL6Q/IMG_1231.jpg Invisible Sister Another view of the boy's bathroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900077175-OJ2NX1WQND7R4RGMYW7P/IMG_1239.jpg Invisible Sister Being a Halloween-themed movie, we chose to make our high school mascot an Owl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900079359-GF9GL63QNKET4ZY7MW36/IMG_1245.jpg Invisible Sister An oak tree outside the front door to the school is all done up for New Orleans Halloween. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900078246-08ULKKM81DKH9M1XB9J7/IMG_1368.jpg Invisible Sister The school stadium is ready for the big lacrosse game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900079161-SSRSSYU5BE0IJSC5TFKZ/IMG_1377.jpg Invisible Sister A display in the high school lobby for the social event of the year, the annual Romp the Swamp Halloween dance and fundraiser. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1455062608980-KBLS4N7SY2T8LCCMUZE9/IMG_1043.jpg Invisible Sister This is the entry gate to the Romp the Swamp Halloween dance. We built this at the far end of the Oak walk at the historic Whitney Plantation. The skeletons were hung by elastic from above so we could give them a little puppeted boogie with the music by pulling on them from below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900083951-ZDSSFNVVO15M7EGGLVXK/IMG_1468.jpg Invisible Sister Here we took the historic Whitney Plantation and transformed it into a fun, haunted Southern night for Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900084248-4W5OSP4PXUJN8MK68KGZ/IMG_1477.jpg Invisible Sister A closer view of the haunted plantation for Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900081658-ZHXUHKQIJ4A8JL3ADZ60/IMG_1453.jpg Invisible Sister Our whimsical, skeletal jazz band theme also became the backdrop for the band at Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900083146-L6B4MWNGGPJUAPCV0E0R/IMG_1456.jpg Invisible Sister Nothing says creepy, period Halloween-like blacklight effects. Here is our glowing ticket booth to enter the haunted plantation for Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900081115-HCK4FUDRA0X7Z52VC92C/IMG_1435.jpg Invisible Sister In an attempt to cure Molly (Paris Berelc) of her invisibility, our gang hastily erects a pumping, wheezing distillery from objects found in the plantation barn and purloined from the haunted house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900083479-QDQ6A5S8Y5DBNW0P19TI/IMG_1458.jpg Invisible Sister A detail of one of the spooky scarecrows at Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900084857-R1TFKUZUZ8JE8KC7BEYC/3.jpg Invisible Sister More blacklight. Here is a room in the haunted plantation set for a vampire's funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900085464-T19CK3RRW8NJTLHMDCS8/1.jpg Invisible Sister The zombie’s feast in the haunted plantation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900084761-9E822T1CTH3SBLS2K025/4.jpg Invisible Sister The ballroom set up for the Ghost's Ball in the haunted plantation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900085569-LDOXZEAWSGKWPGQDJROI/2.jpg Invisible Sister The snack wagon outside the haunted plantation at Romp the Swamp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1454900079981-BA1W2AHAWFATX5AC7G7T/IMG_1398.jpg Invisible Sister We turned this gorgeous corner house in the French Quarter into Mildred's frozen yogurt shop for the final scene of the movie, complete with our own amped-up, New Orleans Halloween decorations. https://www.markhofeling.com/cloudnine daily 0.75 2013-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521419149308-XCIT8STBJ6TJUNJVA6X8/DSC05286x.jpeg Cloud 9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337232759-1UMVHEFYGKT6XD1K8MKQ/DSC05286x.jpg Cloud 9 Cloud 9 centers around the lives of a group of young snowboarders who hang out and compete at the fictional ski resort Summit Valley. This is the snack shack at the bottom of the snowboard halfpipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337234984-15IZ5UO106BYM117MYC7/DSC05293x.jpg Cloud 9 We prefabbed this set off-site, and moving only at night, hauled it up to our site by snowcat in carefully ordered loads. It was built on a 12-foot deep pad of compacted snow at 9,000 feet elevation in temperatures well below zero. Although it was a temporary set, it had to be designed to withstand a potential snow load of 30,000 pounds. A nerve-racking experience all around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337232610-EHIPCQR9OUBDWA4HX7B4/DSC05289x.jpg Cloud 9 The lunch counter in the interior of the snack shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392591528320-MQN5IMJ2TPR5EECGRZPC/IMG_0590x.jpg Cloud 9 Portable Summit Valley Resort sign, served us in a few locations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337234866-3CTOWB4G4SJE7P94FP6H/DSC05371x.jpg Cloud 9 The "historic" Summit Valley billboard. An escaped sled hurtles down the slope and crashes through the prized relic of the resort owner. Here it is rigged with det-cord, ready for a hole to be blown in it before it falls over and crashes on the snow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337236758-V8WQACH6VQFB8VX45TSR/DSC05472x.jpg Cloud 9 In the story, a struggling family takes a ratty old retail space and tries to make a go of it by opening a dog spa and daycare for the pets of ski resort patrons. The challenge was to make it terrible without it being too terrible. We went with a 70's Swiss-inspired vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337238100-GAUGQ6ZJEG4JWZAVQIM5/DSC05475x.jpg Cloud 9 A reverse of the shabby dog spa showing the counter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337238152-6A8UOYYHAUWLAUO8JWWJ/DSC05492x.jpg Cloud 9 Another angle of the shabby dog spa showing the dog washing stations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337241667-66U7KSYH52ZYCSG0HWAM/DSC05796x.jpg Cloud 9 The resort owner’s daughter (Dove Cameron) decides to throw down her gold card and give the sad shack a makeover. We originally had planned to build the nearly identical sets side by side to save maximize shooting time but ended up transforming the same room over a couple of days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337241994-IIMRMXNYWVGRLYBUVETD/DSC05797x.jpg Cloud 9 A view of the sexy remodeled kennels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337239615-57ZWW4XBCLDVS6BYAAFE/DSC05784x.jpg Cloud 9 A reverse of the remodeled spa showing the counter and new dog washing area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337239487-T1CJT3TEE1WI8TLO5TKX/DSC05769x.jpg Cloud 9 High School mascot sign for the Summit Valley HS Snow Leopards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337243835-EB8GGHLPUFDWARST18YO/DSC05814x.jpg Cloud 9 Will Cloud's (Luke Benward) basement bedroom set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337244588-SS2UTHPT9ZU9TAM60EM5/IMG_2705x.jpg Cloud 9 Uber-rich girl Kayla's (Dove Cameron) bedroom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337236650-1V2PYUHF6E69Y1FXPP7X/DSC05430x.jpg Cloud 9 The movie ends with the climactic Fire and Ice snowboard championship, staged in the Park City superpipe, a 2002 Winter Olympic venue. We built this massive lighting/pyrotechnic installation on both sides of the 666-foot pipe. Since all these moving/theatrical lights and rigs were actually in shot, my team took the lead rather than the grip/electric departments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1392337246882-IV7NEWJ15IDO3DKDE91Q/photo13x.jpg Cloud 9 Another light condition on the superpipe. We had enough instruments and programming capability to design a different look for every competitor. To enhance the light we had over 1,000 feet of smoke tube lining the pipe. https://www.markhofeling.com/climbing-with-tigers daily 0.75 2016-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1461195149241-DI6Z5007YX6QEYZR0O1Q/SAM_1665.jpg Climbing With Tigers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909591807-TBGW27KEOIK1XYIPC1N7/IMG_2553.jpg Climbing With Tigers In 2015 I was honored to be invited to contribute to Climbing with Tigers, a visionary theatrical project that was a joint project of Dallas Graham's Red Fred Project, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Studios, and the Salt Lake Acting Company. The play is based on a story Graham co-wrote with Nathan Glad and an 8-year-old boy with Brittle Bones disease. I was asked to create Thunder Tiger, a menacing character confronted by the brave young hero in the final act. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909707514-DJJHDMXWL09J1JM9KGEP/IMG_2501-2.jpg Climbing With Tigers Since the actor would often be operating the head one-handed, it had to be light. I hadn't built a wicker piece since college, but it was obviously the right approach. Here Robert Scott Smith tries it out for the first time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909684684-MXV4PA86K0A1BR35MBGJ/IMG_2650.jpg Climbing With Tigers A tissue-paper mache` served as a surprisingly strong skin. The translucent paper let the structure become natural tiger stripes, and picked up the color of any light projected on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1461194001365-28SKBTH5MDKMPVG5SM94/SAM_1686.jpg Climbing With Tigers Thunder Tiger in the dark, dreamy night sky of the final act. (Photo credit David Daniels, dave.d photography) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1461194004961-8F3AO60MLUQZRKC2LJ9N/SAM_1665.jpg Climbing With Tigers Thunder Tiger with his newfound friend in the final act of Climbing With Tigers. (Photo credit David Daniels, dave.d photography) https://www.markhofeling.com/utahlabor daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471910582586-TGA9IG0F3OJMLP1IB68K/IMG_7391-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900772367-UP20LVG7H9LXT887OM8G/IMG_7391-5-1.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) Atlas Architects approached me and my company CSB about creating a large art piece for the side of their new commercial development in Salt Lake City. All of us being big Lefties, after several discussions we hit on the theme of 10,000 years of labor in Utah. With my friend and collaborator Christian England, I set out to develop a timeline and a narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900777740-4CVMFPW9EM179D3W98S7/IMG_7395-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) From the first human habitation 10,000 years ago to the modern age, we selected many of the notable moments, good and bad in the long human effort to build Utah's society. We used the bar grate background to represent a timeline, bloodlines, and even the active geology of the state. On top of that, we added a steel plate layer of representational images. And with the plate, we added assemblage boxes collecting the tools of the trade of the depicted characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900781570-Z158FHGNULAU42ZNR7E7/IMG_7398-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) At the top left are the first Europeans to traverse the state in the form of Spanish explorers with their muskets and swords. In the center the solitary trapper with his traps and gun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900779936-Z07SQWEHRKUSS6DNJ04R/IMG_7396-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) Images begin to cluster together as history became noisier and more cluttered with the arrival of the Mormon settlers, the railroad, and the industrialization and extraction of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900784145-TLUQCS5R103H86WG8BNP/IMG_7401-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) Utah's unknown first inhabitants left behind a campsite at Danger Cave at least 11,000 years ago. Christian England represented them as ghostly figures seen through the haze of time like people seen through the distorting heat waves of the hard desert plane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900784490-4XX8BRE032ANWQYLZQA0/IMG_7399-5.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) The box for industrialization and extraction looms over the figure of a miner and labor activist Mother Jones who joined striking miners in Price and Helper. To the right, the order and repetition of the World War II box represent the massive mobilization of labor and materials of that period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900780568-3QC5NTZTVJMRCWTLLHA3/IMG_7397-6.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) Labor organizer, Joe Hill's portrait is accompanied by a box with the five rifles used in his execution by the State of Utah in 1915. The heart represents the paper target the state pinned to his shirt for the firing squad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471900765242-FEI5EYP1JGPR9W2QSRGK/IMG_7374.jpg 10,000 Years of Labor in Utah (Mural) I am very grateful to Atlas Architects, the RDA, and my amazing crew at Creative Services Bureau who fabricated and installed this custom art piece. https://www.markhofeling.com/flight daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471910835541-7S5ZZBKO7DEX34BTX4LZ/IMG_0898.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909931273-52XLAWJNCLBV6X2UMRR9/unnamed-1.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition In the summer of 2015 the Leonardo (a science and technology museum in Salt Lake City) approached me and my partner Matias Alvarez at Creative Services Bureau about developing an original, 10,000 square foot exhibition about Man's pursuit of flight. The timeline was short and the expectation was high. We eagerly jumped on board and quickly conceived an idea. This 3D rendering By Mike Smith shows the main gallery space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909934844-AA7YAP9UY8OUDEC47GNU/unnamed.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition One of my strong first instincts was to find a dreamy, almost spiritual way to illustrate the dreams millennia of human beings yearning to fly, from the first Mesopotamian gods up to the New Horizons Pluto probe. Thus the Tunnel Of Dreams was conceived. A backlit blueprint of how we engineered ourselves into the air. The tunnel focuses down on a television in a 1969 period American living room that plays a loop of the Apollo 11 moon landing - a shrine to one of flight’s greatest moments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909936188-HO9ZK85VO1EO0G2ZTG2X/IMG_6853.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The central focal point of the exhibit needed to be a large aircraft that hung over the gallery space. The design philosophy of the exhibition came down to one word - "permission". Visitors would be allowed to walk on and into this main asset. Matias Alvarez and I went shopping for this prize at the famous boneyards in Tucson. Here is our mothballed C-131 Samaritan being prepared for its trip north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909935669-Q7TBVZLHIEZSMDZWLXIA/IMG_6899.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition After exhaustive research on what sort of plane would be the best fit for our building and allow the optimal flow of visitors, we settled on the Post WWII flying ambulance, the C-131. The aircraft we chose was in Navy service for 30 years before being sold for salvage in 1985. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909941036-RWIHZ4G9PLE1V81BAAS4/IMG_2510.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Our first look inside our C-131. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909934512-CQ5ETE6P8FMNIN3C0LJ1/IMG_7050.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Weeks later the full fuselage arrived at the CSB shop in Salt Lake City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909938684-TUPTHZ9MD3JLDVT0I8SI/IMG_2882.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Weeks after the fuselage the massive wing arrived. At 105' long it was the largest legal load allowable on US interstates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909938998-FMG55KGJNO4CDGMZBE84/IMG_2847.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition With all the pieces of the C-131 at last inside our shop, we were able to begin modifying it to move to its permanent home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909931648-JKK2R3UDDC28RUI6ONB1/unnamed-1+copy.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Matt Huff of Williams engines (a member of the FLIGHT advisory board) asked what else we might need for our exhibit. I told him an ejector seat would be an excellent way for visitors to understand engineering at high speed and the stakes involved. He emailed a few days later to say he found one, in a Mig-21 Soviet fighter Plane, and would we like the whole thing? My answer was a resounding "Da!" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909938260-X5BQX6F339UGVD10V50N/IMG_3255.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition With the edition of the Mig, our shop was getting crowded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071827489-K63WTCJ7GLKOOTA9IW8S/IMG_7480.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition After the massive effort of the retrofitting, movement, and installation, FLIGHT was ready to open. The sign and entry vestibule leads visitors into the exhibit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909948999-G154UBKEKUGJV2Q4TL3N/IMG_0928.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The entry vestibule offers a tantalizing peek into the main gallery. We chose the huge vertical stabilizer of the C-131 as an artful, curved barrier that pairs beautifully with the graceful arch of the Tunnel of Dreams entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909940328-RODN2O651M88JDU2M630/IMG_2537.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Frequent CSB collaborator and illustrator Christian England works on one of the almost 200 original illustrations for the Tunnel of Dreams entry portal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909957656-WLMBCDXR188OXO5IGBM8/IMG_0870.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The glowing Tunnel of dreams offers visitors an overture of 5,000 years of the human endeavor to fly. Pains were taken to cover all cultures and regions of the earth in early history and all periods and methods of air travel from the 18th century forward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909950643-3JD4FI1ISVJ7360OTB5R/IMG_0921.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The busy aviation dreamscape flows forward from ancient to cutting edge, with all illustrations yearning upward toward the tunnel's ceiling of constellations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909950341-BOWXXON5TCC7G00LYYHN/IMG_0916.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Two children watch intently as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps. An 8-minute loop of the network footage plays on the period-appropriate Zenith, all watched over by a portrait of JFK. We consulted astronomers who gave us the North American starscape and phase of the moon for July 20th, 1969 at 10 pm Eastern Standard Time, which we duplicated outside the living room windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909943919-6O5IZZY47NYR8FBRV48O/IMG_1155.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition My partner Matias Alvarez and I in the final stretch of installation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909947540-E0ATBJZ2CQWYOCNRUP8P/IMG_0959.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition As floor space in the exhibit was limited, we found the only place we could put the Mig-21 was up. And so we did. It fit almost perfectly, with a bit of its nose and a wingtip just peeking into the second-floor galleries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071828485-RL9BC3SZMDD8C09CRME1/IMG_7473.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The busy airspace of FLIGHT's main gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909953090-PI2BRXSLMEN7HKVQQW5P/IMG_0898.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Back outside, there are a number of artifacts and interactive exhibits to engage visitors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071835003-B7DHXBJXI3WUK6YBN47F/IMG_7436.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Once up either of the stairways or the ADA lift, visitors are free to experience the stripped-down C-131 interior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071834384-L9TQ954A7K11I9MCHH9Y/IMG_7440.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The cockpit is truly where our philosophy of permission is most on display. Visitors are free to climb in, grab the yoke and flip the dizzying array of switches and knobs this old, analog aircraft has to offer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909948108-EHBU32GO5IL2KF9PF74G/IMG_0948.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition One of our favorite interactive exhibits is this giant propeller set donated by Skywest airlines. We designed a housing and interface that allows visitors to give it a whirl and see how much wind they can generate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071826106-F5TVLGVEOYZDAEB6OWM4/IMG_7457.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Our customized simulator set-ups were the perfect match for the highly sophisticated flight simulator programs donated by Rockwell Collins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071824387-PI31JY427V5Y7QV19W4Y/IMG_0878.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition We felt that rather than trying to reproduce a traditional cockpit for the simulators, a more open design would make it a communal rather than an individual experience. Our triple ring housing with fighter-pilots seats kept the cool factor while being open and letting groups of friends enjoy the installation together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909954077-YSJS2PCTZC6M0RF2O0PA/IMG_0894.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The Leonardo divided the pioneers of FLIGHT into three categories - Aviators, Explorers, and Innovators. As many people were more than one of these, the idea of a Venn diagram occurred to us as an instructive display of this rich history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071831708-3V8KXYCHD87VQJY57RV6/IMG_7462.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Skywest airlines generously donated airline seats, with which we created a theater. Programming for the theater will vary, but for daily use, it plays an amazing compilation of historic flops compiled by filmmaker and CSB collaborator Conor Provenzano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071830356-IJMS4J8BSWV3W4G9NEQB/IMG_7463.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Another view of the theater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909955768-IZKS9LDKWMCJLURO6DJU/IMG_0879.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The section on animal flight was a natural place for parents and young ones to rest and play. Split circular screens play amazing, super-slow-motion animal flight footage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909956491-F48PCOQRVYHXAZT00VEG/IMG_0877.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Minimal casework was designed and built for the incredible assets donated to the exhibit. The Williams Jet Belt was capable of flying for 20 minutes. This prototype actually flew in 1966. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071830646-O500S7YXSWSW2R97UDA1/IMG_7464.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition An F-16 flight suit stands out briskly in its aviation orange case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071827371-0IJD85CFDAAYAFM0SX1T/IMG_7477.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Williams Engines donated this jet engine rotor set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071829528-4SD0K5A1P3ZAXUZD5A38/IMG_7465.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition We felt that the countless parts and pieces that make up an aircraft, and the professionals that make, install, maintain and operate them needed some discussion. The Skywest parts wall celebrates the quotidian and the mundane that make possible the miracle of flight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071824402-K4XSOQEC4N2YGV2A8CPD/IMG_0885.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Flight is accomplished by three different methods - Aerodynamic, Buoyant, and Ballistic. We conceived three themed kiosks for the presentation of this information. Here is the ballistic kiosk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071825743-B0M2OI0A1VAZMA6H5H0D/IMG_0886.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Here is the Buoyant flight kiosk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071826568-1QVIOFW2R03KEBYVBTE0/IMG_7460.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition A view past the aerodynamic kiosk toward ballistic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909946426-UYDTW42VB8ESWQ4OAFCR/IMG_0977.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition This is another of several beautiful film clips put together by CSB collaborator Conor Provenzano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472071833963-J6NNUICAMZP22TUL22TX/IMG_7454.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition The stairways aren't the only exit from the C-131. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909942872-YLXG53TCIWMPGUIQQFUH/IMG_1747-1.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition Before opening, the Leonardo wanted some kind of "coming soon" teaser to raise public awareness of FLIGHT. We quickly designed and built this photo-op for visitors to climb onto and share via social media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471909957076-FN91M1UZ7T1MUAQFT8W7/IMG_0871.jpg FLIGHT Exhibition FLIGHT was conceived and executed in well under a year. It was an amazing group effort in a short period on a very tight budget. https://www.markhofeling.com/riced daily 0.75 2016-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911195421-Y0ZOXJV4B0JHJ0DEHC5L/DSC_5369-2.jpg Riced Restaurant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911058201-9AA52C03W3GA5T0I4618/DSC_5369-2.jpg Riced Restaurant In 2015 me and my company Creative Services Bureau were contacted by Greg Walker of B-WOW to assist in the finishing of Riced, a fast-casual restaurant in Utah. We built custom fixtures and did all the custom staining and woodwork. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911055531-PJWA5R0GG5JT5BQUYJ46/DSC_5389.jpg Riced Restaurant We were very happy with the result of our take on the typical restaurant pass-through window, here a copper-lined open Kanji symbol for "Rice". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911057390-4FCKTTZ6TN39TJR3P4R0/DSC_5377-2.jpg Riced Restaurant A view of our custom copper and cedar fixtures and wood tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911054656-HB88HG0MFTUURBE00QXZ/IMG_2614.jpg Riced Restaurant Our custom light fixtures with copper lining. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1471911056482-EZ907GTBLSC3C6ZQ97BT/DSC_5385.jpg Riced Restaurant Our custom hot water system for the variety of teas on offer at Riced. https://www.markhofeling.com/ufc2016 daily 0.75 2016-08-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145485745-CGTAWTE9G3VGI4FPK9OU/IMG_2472.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145288223-QO4YADNBG4YPBNTEGJOL/IMG_2376.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 For the 2016 Sundance Utah Film Commission Living Room, my company (Creative Services Bureau) was asked to take a fresh look at their Main street venue location. In addition to the comfy, welcoming, host state, the vibe we wanted to introduce a little more fun into the space. We quickly hit upon a postcard people could pose in for photos. Our first model sold the idea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145289689-6XUI7RQ7LL9QL5UO5MXZ/IMG_2450.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 The three-layered set-pieces finished in our shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145288973-CC79GFLHZJK4FQVOGY9Q/IMG_2396.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 As the recharging of weary festival-goers and their phones is one of life's great struggles at Sundance, we embraced it fully by building long common tables with electric charging strips built right on top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145289978-354RHU86ZP05MXPTD227/IMG_2441.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 In keeping with our classic red rock postcard, we built an old crank movie camera and provided some cowboy hats and wooden guns so guests could relive Utah's red rock western movie craze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145291695-BKCOXCKEBH15VDFPSQ1P/IMG_2483.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 Exterior signage begins to tell the story of Utah's rich film history as well as welcoming guests into the venue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145290662-N8B9YVDJUNJQ99C2VPKX/IMG_2472.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 The postcard was a hit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145336664-UANBY1DFS1SLGDW2XR1O/IMG_2478.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 The venue included the comforts of home, welcoming all comers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1472145287230-0KDW2WAK0115WWU3V6DF/Sundance-1.jpg Utah Film Commission, Sundance 2016 A typically busy day for the Utah Film Commission Living Room at Sundance 2016. https://www.markhofeling.com/descendants-2 daily 0.75 2018-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521419210095-ET5HJEGBMF432UKT08AP/B121_1.12.3-13.jpg Descendants 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394891274-O3C58E8TQX6R0KRU58FZ/C1_1.5.2.jpg Descendants 2 Like the first film in the franchise, Descendants 2 focuses on the dismal Isle of the Lost (an Alcatraz-style penal colony in which all of Disney’s heritage villains are incarcerated), and the obnoxiously perfected Kingdon of Auradon (where all the heritage princesses and heroes reside in royal splendor). Descendants 2 opens in a Fantasy musical number in the familiar setting of the Auradon Prep campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238910696-13DZPZBLYYPLDHR2RBIQ/A1_1.1.1+copy-13-1.jpg Descendants 2 In "Ways to be Wicked", the orderly world of Auradon gets turned upside down as the good kids turn a little bit evil after a bite of the iconic enchanted apple. We built this fountain for safe apple bobbing for the cast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394892629-ON7Y76B3VWT7LFKKS0BD/C1_1.5.1.jpg Descendants 2 The Garden at Auradon Prep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245069029-ZVOFPH11X2USE2OBMWTF/_DSF7389.jpg Descendants 2 Descendant's 2 returns to the VK girls' dorm room, where Evie (Sofia Carson) has brought her own super sophisticated Isle style to the rosy pinkness they moved into months before. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245067925-EDK5FFIBV66NKIPDA6R3/_DSF7390.jpg Descendants 2 Not only is the VK girl's dorm room a more chic living space than before, but Evie (Sofia Carson) has also turned it into her profitable fashion atelier and fitting room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245009282-Z6FB6VUOKQMCAS7OFHWF/IMG_1639.jpg Descendants 2 In the first Descendants film, Maleficent's raging dragon was reduced to a diminutive lizard by Fairy Godmother (Melanie Paxson). Now that her daughter Mal (Dove Cameron) keeps her in her dorm room, she's tried to make her as comfortable as possible. This lizard cage recalls not only the comforts Maleficent had in the first movie but gives her back her classic cursed spinning wheel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245067700-FO3K2653RUKMLTLWCEO0/_DSF7493.jpg Descendants 2 Descendants 2 also returns to the VK boy's dorm room, here with its brand new 3D printer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238916944-6W897H6G60SIACDJQCCG/A2_1.4.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Now the King of Auradon, young King Ben (Mitchell Hope) has an office befitting his station. Here Evie (Sofia Carson) brings Ben bad news. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504244997444-4OWGQO6XC7TGXNMPQ7Z9/IMG_6417.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of King Ben's (Mitchell Hope) office in the royal palace of Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504244994592-VLP7UI522QS98QI5OBPJ/IMG_6425.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of King Ben's (Mitchell Hope) office in the royal palace in Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245037142-B2CQ6I2U76MTF9SJNYCK/_DSF7767.jpg Descendants 2 Like Tourney in the first Descendants movie, Descendants 2 required us to invent another sport of chivalry and tactics. ROAR is a stadium-style team fencing game fought in close quarters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238918437-ZJGX6ZF7WJF3LW12YKHS/A2_1.5.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Descendants 2 introduces a few new young ruffians from the Isle of the Lost. One such ruffian, Uma (China Anne McClain) works for her mother, the overbearing Ursala from the Little Mermaid. Like all the imprisoned villains on the Isle of the Lost, Ursula has had to find a way to make ends meet. Thus her Fish and Chips Shoppe is right at the tide line of the prison island. I wanted the feel of a faded old carnival attraction, still alluring despite its decay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245039401-99Q7EW3TEN9RCXET0N72/_DSF7743.jpg Descendants 2 Naturally, Ursula's Fish and Chips Shoppe has a stage for bawdy pirate musicals and an organ. Every real villain needs an organ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238923596-MEMCOJ3JEGHP77ALSSP3/A147_1.18.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Here the ambitious and embittered Uma (China Anne McClain) rallies her pirate gang inside the Fish and Chips Shoppe, where her Sea Witch mother Ursula has pressed her into dreary service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238921954-CJFBY0DXPNFSG4N1RW9M/A138_1.6.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Uma (China Anne McClain) and her pirate gang, including her trusted lieutenants Harry Hook (Thomas Doherty) and Gil (Dylan Playfair) rally to take back what is theirs in Uma's mother's dingy tidal pool of a Fish and Chips Shoppe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394890629-VESSKXMR4LRC6LF54D9W/C083_I.7.2.jpg Descendants 2 Harry Hook (Thomas Doherty) Swings from a chandelier during "What's My Name" In Ursula's Fish and Chips Shoppe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245037186-PGNV2DZ5T4B1K68WJKXJ/_DSF7752.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of the menu board and specials in Ursula's Fish and Chips Shoppe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238920348-ML2NTU1V9W7HL6HJG08B/B121_1.12.3-13.jpg Descendants 2 Uma (China Anne McClain) commanding respect on her coral throne in Ursula's Fish and Chips Shoppe. Note the "We Ride With the Tide" iconic street art we developed for her pirate gang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245000740-K3KJIBZOSCR9RU1SQYYS/IMG_2061.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of Uma's coral throne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394888657-PIA3BUIEO9DBIAWQE92R/A153_1.6.1.jpg Descendants 2 Harry Hook (Thomas Doherty) conspires with Uma (China Anne McClain) in Ursula's Fish and Chips Shoppe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238920303-B43WP5OTA2M3FHIFIS87/B096_1.9.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Having returned to the Isle of the Lost, the VK's (Sofia Carson, Booboo Stewart, Cameron Boyce) show King Ben (Mitchell Hope) how to blend in one of the worse parts of the bad part of town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245004462-VP84JY94KFYGWXFVL2MH/IMG_1960.jpg Descendants 2 A view of Low Tide Lane on the Isle of the Lost. Having been an isolated prison island for decades now, the idea was that every slat and board is on its 9th or 10th life, and every object not screwed down had changed grubby hands hundreds of times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245024393-YG433WFK8BNDAXJP1VW3/IMG_0897.jpg Descendants 2 A view of the Bazaar on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245021847-SJYNJYUVL0D2EN2WRVDA/IMG_0899.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of the Bazaar on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245003289-77RYF4OBZATJEFI4B3LC/IMG_1974.jpg Descendants 2 A view of the marketplace in Sorcerer's Square on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245025695-XPGO54EBPD7ER4SYV2YQ/IMG_0886.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of the Bazaar on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238910446-L8YWVXPIYA9LQO0GODX9/A1_1.4.1-13+copy.jpg Descendants 2 Mal (Dove Cameron) speeds through the Bazaar on her enchanted scooter on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238918546-Z0INFYOCO60HK0SNB56R/A128_1.6.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Mal (Dove Cameron) Gets a consultation from Dizzy (Anna Cathcart) in the madness of Drizella's Curl Up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245002381-NCZSR6V7LVXO6DNLSG02/IMG_2041.jpg Descendants 2 Drizella's Curl Up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost is where Mal and Evie load up on chemicals for their showdown with Uma's pirate gang. So more than a hair salon as absurd as the rest of the Isle, it also had to be a repository for all kinds of chemistry and alchemy. The idea here was that out of every 100 of young Dizzy's experimental, chemical beauty concoctions, 99 blow up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245041338-8ES1XOHSL1P2KX05J4FZ/_DSF7731.jpg Descendants 2 A view of the wig dying/drying line and chemistry set-up in Drizella's Curl Up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245044011-S5U4ZSYZ3XY9HEHXO2HE/_DSF7719.jpg Descendants 2 The ever-unpredictable dye distillery in Drizella's Curl Up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245041445-22SF7OVK8SLUZGMMVT2M/_DSF7723.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of Drizella's Curl up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245045066-RYELQ1MCQWW4Y8R1TPRW/_DSF7718.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of the dry chemistry set up in Drizella's Curl Up and Dye on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504244994736-9RYQMZJ27E382P85DOWB/IMG_7671.JPG Descendants 2 The annual formal Cotillion is the highlight of the Auradon social calendar. It is set on the king's yacht, the True Love. This massive set served a complex variety of stunts, choreography, and visual effects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245019878-Y1FZB0H3KHRWOFS2BXT7/IMG_1564.jpg Descendants 2 The yacht True Love celebrates all the true love's first kisses throughout the Disney classics. Here the grand stairs from the aft end of the boat provide a beautiful entrance for the announced guests. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245035329-HPGYN1JVPNC2GH6ZNTBC/A_1.2.1.jpg Descendants 2 The former King, his court, and guests look forward to a glittering evening on the yacht True Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238916751-SNABLIO8P8KJFGG5EIF1/A1_1.14.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 After a pitched battle between Uma's octopus form and Mal's dragon form, the deck of the True Love is flooded. The fight settled peacefully, the partygoers refuse to let the water ruin their fun. We designed a filling and drainage system into the set to keep an ideal depth for the exuberant choreography, deep enough to maximize splashing but shallow enough not to exhaust the dancers too quickly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394888589-UH4NWWREPC1K6OW7CGW5/B1_1.6.2.jpg Descendants 2 Mal (Dove Cameron) celebrates the evening on the flooded deck of the yacht True Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245011544-EBUX9LIY89IWPVDWHGNC/IMG_1576.jpg Descendants 2 The grand entrance for the announced guests on the yacht True Love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245012594-06QGEANNB4GZT366PRAQ/IMG_1573.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of the stained glass windows on the yacht True Love, here celebrating Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Mulan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245018001-1F0P645QKWK8E9CBQJ82/IMG_1568.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of the stained glass windows on the yacht True Love, here celebrating The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245016249-LB351OL8TCLSC30A9VIV/IMG_1570.jpg Descendants 2 A detail of the stained glass windows on the yacht True Love, here celebrating Cinderella and Aladdin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504394891739-P63FVVYU3TWWOWUIXORD/A2_1.5.1.jpg Descendants 2 In a moment of doubt about her place in the court of Auradon, Mal (Dove Cameron) returns to the world she knows on the Isle of the Lost, where she takes up residence in the secret hideout she and the other Villain Kids used to share. The Villain Kids then stage a rescue. Here Mal reunites with her best friend Evie (Sofia Carson). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245006265-DB16K9HNQVL9LYF7U63K/IMG_1796.jpg Descendants 2 The VK's hideout was always a place of respite from their raging and overbearing parents. It's where the VK's purloined all the best stuff on the Isle, and where Mal perfected her street art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245064262-29C4PWUZ1CX847F7J8IB/_DSF7545.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of the VK's hideout on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245064865-B1Y9GTGBILH34606M0F3/_DSF7539.jpg Descendants 2 Mal's room in the VK's hideout on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238922440-5XQOFGGZRKLKA96OVGD2/C1_1.4.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Uma and her pirate gang rule the rotting docks and rocky edge of the Isle of the Lost. We built this huge chunk of her territory for the big showdown between her pirate gang and the Villain Kids, led by Mal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521239879908-BGO3JSSZ6D29X7ZB7IRZ/decendants+2+ship+dock.jpg Descendants 2 Isle of the Lost dock and pirate ship after VFX. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245059153-T30D0FQD87ZKLF86AFHV/_DSF7617.jpg Descendants 2 Uma's HQ is this ruined pirate ship. After all the Disney Villains were relocated to the Isle of the Lost, all the ships that brought them were scuttled and they were all locked behind an enchanted barrier. So this is one of many wrecks in these waters, including the sails of the ship, rammed into her side. We found real tall-ship riggers for this work, and they used 10,000 feet of rope in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245006267-QVMFG7FAB495CE2CYMG5/IMG_1861.jpg Descendants 2 This photo shows the "rickety" and treacherous landscape of the rotten docksides. This became the setting of a 20 person melee to rescue King Ben and escape the Isle and Uma's vengeful clutches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238915392-M93CCDYPN44PE3MNB9Z8/A1_1.9.2-13.jpg Descendants 2 Mal (Dove Cameron) faces off across the gangplank from Uma's pirate gang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238915047-O0ACZM4DXNPISDMWBT6C/A1_1.9.1-13.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of the rotten dockside set on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245060831-9BYUGE54JL0D0KR4I78N/_DSF7616.jpg Descendants 2 Another view of the rotten dock set on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245061123-9YUXFQWISV2PAEOZ25N7/_DSF7612.jpg Descendants 2 A detail shot of the rotten dock set on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245062254-RWG0U1UNOEU06RQ22AEQ/_DSF7607.jpg Descendants 2 A detail shot of the rotten dock set on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1504245063355-TYKWN2RP5238X46SSVAE/_DSF7603.jpg Descendants 2 A detail shot of the rotten dock set on the Isle of the Lost. https://www.markhofeling.com/water-witch-bar daily 0.75 2017-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490836618620-49WU3E40E7MVZVYSR751/20170206_JJUIP_WaterWitch-11-1.jpg Water Witch Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835893490-4V14BTPY7RZ0QBI32YEG/20170206_JJUIP_WaterWitch-11.jpg Water Witch Bar Water Witch is the vision of three giants of the Salt Lake City bar and culture scene - Sean Neves, Scott Gardener, and Matt Pfohl. I was lucky enough to be asked to design their 800 sq foot bar, Water Witch in the up-and-coming Central 9th neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835898579-I9KBAMUAQARG19MMHESF/20170206_JJUIP_WaterWitch-9.jpg Water Witch Bar The Water Witch was a sailboat Brigham Young owned on the Great Salt Lake in the 19th Century that shuttled his secret booze from a wildcat mining town up north to the south end. Obviously, it also refers to water divining and refreshment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835893212-TJFN92BL06UEBD26PSGR/20170313_JJUIP_water-witch-3.jpg Water Witch Bar Upon our first meeting with the guys I gleaned from them that this was to be their workspace, not precious, not pretentious but a workshop as well as a neighborhood bar where they would almost never have to turn their backs on their valued customers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835882861-NDB0F7PWIYFWVX3HJ6UQ/20170313_JJUIP_water-witch-4.jpg Water Witch Bar Water Witch is a post-war machine shop producing blue-collar cocktails and community. It is an undecorated space fitted out with woodworkers benches and bar tops, our custom "air scoop" lights, and cement floors. The only decoration is this 14-foot reproduction of a 19th century Lambourne "seascape" of the Great Salt Lake. Local artist David Brothers faithfully copied it in oil brushstroke by brushstroke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490835883124-VTOE3MZI9D8L7E1VCCEL/20170313_JJUIP_water-witch-5x.jpg Water Witch Bar Sean Neves and I share a passion for the bizarre and mostly unknown history of early Utah. Brigham Young is the reason this state exists and is in a way the dark father of all of those who call this place home. A notorious racist and scold, we loved the idea that he is a dark cloud over our modernity, watching us disapprovingly even in our most intimate moments. So in the 14 foot tall, narrow bathrooms, I placed his giant, judgmental eye spying on the toilets below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490836103120-SA4QPSW746W25IYHLBWN/P1030258-1.jpg Water Witch Bar A typical evening at Water Witch bar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1490836104556-2E4SVQT0TFNUCRZVAOOZ/P1030252-1.jpg Water Witch Bar This view shows the back bar area. In so many bars, the back bar is really just for decoration. This is not the case with the Water Witch operation. They use every product on the back bar regularly. I designed a grab bar and step ladder system into the back bar itself so they could easily climb up and down without having to pull out a ladder in their very limited space (the entire place is 800 sq feet). Utah law requires all liquor to be securely locked up at night, so we provided rolling garage doors to pull down and lock up at closing time. https://www.markhofeling.com/zombies-2018 daily 0.75 2018-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238315736-W9UOLPB19WGUYEA9GLNR/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147907216-25VQKGK8ED0CE9JDZ8UW/CIMG6630.JPG Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S opens in the slightly off world of Seabrook, a town that would very much like to forget a zombie apocalypse in the not-too-distant past. A perfect, modern Americana is enforced, outsiders are shunned, and total conformity is the law of the land. This perfect Seabrook neighborhood is exactly as perfect as all the others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925549-RJHU1U4RFQPUFOF5LTMP/IMG_0526.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The soothing, uncomplicated pastel tones reassure the residents that all is well and the past never happened. Even the tulips are planted in a perfect grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925315-A69T7VD65PACTSDP44AP/IMG_0528.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another of the standard-issue Seabrook homes available in one of the 6 legally permitted pastel tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147910134-2XAOXLIE822MDT8FQH0Z/IMG_0456.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Even the domestic interiors reflect a ruthlessly enforced pastel palette. Everything is in its perfect order, the good people of Seabrook only look forward, never back. The home of the young heroine Addison (Meg Donnelly) reflects that comfortable conformity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147911755-N7ZH2RT1TYGK3FBNJ782/IMG_0479.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147909752-N02GGRGVDZ2USEBJ9CT1/IMG_0455.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147970661-61BCO8M7LC7N49529O39/IMG_1069.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S In this strange world, the Seabrook high school Mighty Shrimp reign supreme. And the alphas of Seabrook high are the cheerleaders, led by the almost too-perfect cheer captain, Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) seated here at the exclusive cheer dining table in the cafeteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157537-QOH71F2755NVDVQ4KLO6/20170705_150858_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The cult of cheer captain Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) is expressed in near-religious terms at Seabrook high. The pep rally is an expression of that cult of personality. LED color bars illuminate the perfectly spaced, 36" balloons that frame his layered graphics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238158927-9E86YIU5C9FG9WTCR2AL/20170705_150916_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another view of Bucky's (Trevor Tordjman) temple to himself at the pep rally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973546-O5OIAR1FQG4KT4XOS62E/IMG_6176_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Seabrook high's football team was a key story point. With the help of the optimistic Zombie freshmen Zed (Milo Manheim) they go from last place to contenders for state champs. As most high school football fields are surrounded by non-Seabrook modernity and freeways and have fully branded artificial fields, we were forced to create our own stadium in a rural park- seeding and reconditioning a field, importing bleachers, scoreboards, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148645317-VD4ZTHM89M117YTP3R97/screenshot2.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The central conflict of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is the first day of school integration. Zombies are the hated underclass of Seabrook. Their homicidal cravings having been brought under control by an inhibiting device (the Z-Band), they are now just normal people. But Seabrook still imposes a curfew, offers only menial work, and lives in fear of the Zombies. Here the pastel fearfulness of Seabrook is confronted by the saturated, exuberant excitement of the young zombies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147903702-3K02L5HV9U4Q2AS6CQR8/IMG_0430.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The young zombies’ excitement is soon tempered when they find themselves relegated to the dingy basement for remedial English. The script called for a spoken zombie language, so I thought there should be a written one. The 18 glyphs are based on the folds of the human brain, the object of classic zombie obsession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147906566-P8E1OH1WV5OULALJHF5N/IMG_0371.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another basement space in Seabrook high is one of several zombie safe rooms. While the humans wish to forget the zombie apocalypse, they still prepare for another outbreak. In this bunker, lucky survivors must be prepared to live a decade or more below ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157843-BHS9U4VP4I8LM4HV4TKO/20170704_172751_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Unlike the bland conformity of Seabrook, the "slum" of Zombietown is an organic and ironically liberated place. Walled in and eking out a marginal life from the pre-apocalypse resources and the detritus of Seabrook, the zombies have made an extraordinary community with nearly nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147944687-5WHV6DSGRIXKR5ABVR7X/IMG_1027.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The zombies came into being 50 years ago when an experimental energy lab exploded. Now the surviving zombies have been pushed into the overcrowded neighborhood surrounding the destroyed lab. We found this early 20th-century working-class neighborhood in Hamilton, Ontario, and stripped it of all greenery. Other than the zombies, nothing can grow in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147968594-B772WZJG0SKGHLHM9JQ3/IMG_1081_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Having spent years in a blind haze of ravenous wandering, the recovered zombies live in a wonder of the five senses. They love sound, color, and especially light. Every house in Zombietown is a celebration of each family's particular joy. Bonzo's (James Godfrey) house is a tribute to his love of music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147967887-ONNNN33EU58YSJ6Q08J0/IMG_1086_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another house in Zombietown, the windmill speaks to the zombies’ genius and resourcefulness in doing a lot with a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147978785-1KGNNG4TKHBP4OTDPS9T/unnamed-6.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S This Zombietown house is all about the freedom that wheels offer to people who spent decades staggering aimlessly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147971203-GT2X2WF0TWDK6DTYYHHZ/IMG_1095_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Our young hero Zed's (Milo Manheim) house in Zombietown. His little sister Zoey (Kingston Foster) is obsessed with light. We made the little newspaper/flower light garden for her to tend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147931475-41UI4YNJFAKV9A78RPJJ/IMG_0785.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Zed's (Milo Manheim) room. Zed's dad Zevon (Tony Nappo) has done his best to make life as normal as possible for his kids in this human/zombie apartheid. Their home speaks to the thrift and genius of their kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147937920-MT9HIGJKWHEDA6KKP8MM/IMG_0513_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Zed's (Milo Manheim) easy chair, a repurposed shopping cart in his bedroom in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973594-JDCCSK1P4LQYH0VFTGJ2/P1030369_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The weird and wonderful upstairs hallway in Zed's (Milo Manheim) Zombietown hovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147928640-UFL9XDY02U9X14DHG5O9/IMG_0617.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Zed's (Milo Manheim) family kitchen. Unlike the sterile, pastel human homes, the zombie homes are full of authentic love and realness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147934621-RQR776USXSDZZFICD3PR/IMG_0618.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another view of Zed's (Milo Manheim) kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975346-EWN13J9GMNWHJYN91OAQ/P1030376_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 50 years ago the Seabrook energy plant exploded in a blast of zeta radiation, creating the Zombie race. Totally avoided by humans, the plant is a gathering spot and almost a temple to the zombies. This is the “Light Garden”, an intimate, special place deep within the energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975471-N3YKHNVJZWDVFN7TWACR/P1030382_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S I was very interested in exploring the mythos and identity of the zombies. We determined they were proud of who they are while acknowledging their tumultuous beginnings. So we created a Zombie social realism that celebrated their story. I worked with artist Aurora Kruk to realize this idea. This mural celebrates the zombie renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147962438-56QIFK2N83FW3MAHN3QU/IMG_0943.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Here Aurora Kruk works on the mural celebrating the moment of genesis of the first Zombie, Z. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147932262-6BIXBUAVSQ9YFAJ2CSD5/IMG_0808.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Artist Aurora Kruk works on a mural celebrating the Z-Band, the device that restored the zombie's humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147887803-1BG5COQ31J3QI9E4VTGF/20170622_222117.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The Z-Band mural glowing in black light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147888562-VC9HE4CFGZI7JY5JW61P/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The tentpole musical number of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is BAMM set in the very heart of the ruined energy plant. Here the zombies can truly be themselves safe from human interference. Also here they bring to bear all their ingenuity and technical skill to create a cobbled-together rave-like atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147943907-CYC6YY06XA3V6JO1S44V/IMG_0876.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Another view of the main hall of the ruined energy plant. Invisibly embedded in the center of the "concrete" floor is a "tricking" air mattress system that allowed the zombies to perform choreography that seemed to defy physics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147902213-9FBMZUKIGKDOH43PVICI/20170622_224345.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S We scrounged and built dozens of light elements out of junk and debris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977501-PP21KNV65M3UXK5Z9XDQ/P1030443_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S More zombie-style lights in the ruined energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147942252-D8AKFR7N6LPPYDP4SEUR/IMG_0939.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The tire wall had full spectrum LEDs lining the interiors of each tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147955397-V1B9EAXMRUSB8LHZP3QP/IMG_0953.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S The green zombie "Z" hangs above Eliza's (Kylee Russell) light control booth on a catwalk over the dance floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147957050-TWNST86TS7CVJQ1NZTTR/IMG_0881.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Our jumping jack lights were made by wrapping 2' fluorescent tubes in overlapping layers of colored gel, then screwing loads of those fixtures to angle iron "jacks". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977606-DSZF5PDKPB68NVDWSGUZ/P1030428_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Bonzo's (James Godfrey) DJ booth at the ruined energy plant. Note the organ pipes clustered behind it. They were rigged with CO2 blasts to punctuate the beats of the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521417135341-QW64YSMNYKWXW2AL0TIM/mark+hofeling+light+totems.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S We constructed these "totem poles" out of tires, washing machine drums, flasher barricade lights, old surveillance TVs, etc. Like all the other zombie-style lights they had a huge range of light options built-in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148646242-AFMJGMP3TPMFWMX5X1DN/Z-bam-1509127710.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S Zed (Milo Manheim) leads the zombie dancers in BAMM in the ruined energy plant. https://www.markhofeling.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2016-11-17 https://www.markhofeling.com/descendants-3 daily 0.75 2019-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568926166230-8FOLKF4NLJUSXMOVF2UD/IMG_0277.jpg Descendants 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924949273-RFQ754Q86V0CV9E6PRR3/IMG_0263.jpg Descendants 3 Like the first two films in the trilogy, Disney’s Descendants 3 takes place in both the wretched Isle of the Lost (an Alcatraz style prison where all of the Disney heritage villains have been incarcerated) and the enchanted, perfected kingdom of Auradon (where all the heritage princesses and heroes reside in royal splendor). This is the armory in Auradon’s royal palace. It houses a collection of armor and weapons (not pictured) that good-girl turned evil sorceress Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey) brings to life to fight our heroes in musical combat. We built this broad hall encased in stained glass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924974913-0YB7QQ17BG6XAV4QMO3P/IMG_0243.jpg Descendants 3 A detail of some of the panels of stained glass we designed celebrating chivalry and feats of arms in the armory in Auradon’s royal palace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568924991990-KA4FX2T9U5OL2CK9N7S6/IMG_0277.jpg Descendants 3 A reverse showing the entry to the armory set in Auradon’s royal palace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925015381-OD9QSHJMLQ8SPRMYO9AZ/IMG_0180.jpg Descendants 3 Here three suits of armor/dancers wait to be summoned to life by the newly evil enchantress Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925044878-BHDR1D4WNRXVYINK8RFR/IMG_0286.jpg Descendants 3 There were 13 niches to display the suits of armor in Auradon’s royal palace armory and each one was backlit by a stained glass window with a unique narrative of mythical chivalry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925064201-Z3XB8ZA8ZW487O4FFS2G/IMG_0160.jpg Descendants 3 Each of the dozens of windows had a full color ‘glass’ layer and a 3/16” ‘lead’ layer rubbed in graphite to give the window a sense of dimension and density. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925094239-HZG4YNRHBNMBUO1PBRGK/IMG_0703.jpg Descendants 3 In the Descendants movies, the good guys in Auradon are separated from the bad guys on the Isle of the Lost by a blown-up bridge and a bay. This is the bridge plaza on the good guy’s side of the rift. It’s used for public ceremonies and events. It mirrors the dilapidated and crowded plaza on the Alcatraz-style prison island across the bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925110164-RCAHCXLM9UIMIZHS62XP/IMG_0640.jpg Descendants 3 This tower/gate leads out to the broken edge of the blown bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925125107-1A4ZDAMAVGBEF027D1B8/IMG_0718.jpg Descendants 3 The finale to the movie trilogy ends with the blown bridge being magically rebuilt and the imprisoned population is free to come back to the abundant mainland. Because the daughter of Maleficent, Mal (Dove Cameron) was the mastermind of their liberation, I proposed the people of the Isle of the Lost would parade across the bridge with pride in their hero, Mal. So in honor of her purple dragon alter-ego, they led the procession with this dragon puppet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925141588-308PQIJ1W5W5NLF7OMCI/IMG_0661.jpg Descendants 3 A detail of the dragon puppet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925163310-2PD8280KQPUDEEBDCBBP/IMG_0772.jpg Descendants 3 The other end of the blown bridge is the plaza on the prison island of the Isle of the Lost. It’s the home of all the classic Disney villains, their hench-people, and all their offspring. So the vibe here is not only the hapless poverty of the formerly powerful but also rebellious defiance. We had just a couple of days to turn the plaza set from the elegant piazza of the Auradon side to the rough and rebellious Isle of the Lost side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925183453-NP5LZZFYWFB2VBBFJRTB/IMG_0770.jpg Descendants 3 The people of the Isle of the Lost used their end of the once elegant and now ruined bridge plaza to send a message to their captors across the bay. Anything can be made into a face if you think about it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925202294-I6AFFNMHDXQ1RSTB3Y9F/IMG_0777.jpg Descendants 3 A panorama of what the stinkers on the Isle of the Lost have done to their end of the blown bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925220544-GXM8P0PM2YHWSQH1NAM0/IMG_7677.jpg Descendants 3 The daughter of Sleeping Beauty, Audrey’s (Sarah Jeffrey) beautifully appointed room in the exclusive Auradon Academy. Every ‘Descendent’s’ color story is based on their parentage from the classic animations. Director Kenny Ortega chats with Sarah Jeffrey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925255006-Z11UD4PPBH8EEBUUEJZZ/IMG_0758.jpg Descendants 3 The pinks and blues of Aurora’s (Sleeping Beauty) color story from the 1959 classic inform Audrey’s bedroom set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925275861-2O5YEEAOKI2YJ1ZJ5Q5M/IMG_5981.jpg Descendants 3 The window seat in Audrey’s bedroom set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925302321-9L7J552AP7BKXHMD6R9A/IMG_7680.jpg Descendants 3 A detail of the functioning pink marble fireplace and sitting area in Audrey’s bedroom set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925322502-IIBZA5CLUF05775UNN7G/IMG_0536.jpg Descendants 3 Our anti-hero Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey) retreats to this remote fairy cottage that was once the secret refuge of her teen mother, Sleeping Beauty. We built this humble Bavarian-style cottage in a practical forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925345406-3YUXBTHEEZTSGVIGX7ME/IMG_0525.jpg Descendants 3 Another view of Audrey’s retreat based on Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather’s fairy cottage from 1959’s Disney classic Sleeping Beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925382495-J3L7MUVJEW2V52XCPMOY/IMG_0429.jpg Descendants 3 The interior of Audrey’s (Sarah Jeffrey) forest hideout in her mother’s former home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925403157-RI47YC5CT8NP7KI6GTYI/IMG_0479.jpg Descendants 3 A detail of Sleeping Beauty’s former home now occupied by her villainous daughter, Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925429289-QTHDSGR3BQNFPE1OENM0/IMG_0365.jpg Descendants 3 Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey) finds her way into the Auradon Museum of Cultural History where she smashes this vitrine to steal what she feels is rightfully hers, the crown of the Queen of Auradon. I designed this opulent, conceptual space with glowing blue marble to serve the dream-like reality of the musical number, The Queen of Mean. The royal blue draperies and the radiant compass rose of the white, black, and caramel marble floor speak to the order, calm, and safety that are the hallmarks of the Kingdom of Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925453261-S1BIAN7OGTZCLZV6O27Z/IMG_0401.jpg Descendants 3 When Audrey (Sarah Jeffrey) smashes the glass to steal the Queen’s crown, she awakens a dormant evil. The blue drapes open into a red space where the most evil artifacts in all of Auradon are housed, including Maleficent’s supremely powerful scepter. The floor here is a green and black lightning-field of chaos and disorder. The blood-red draperies billow and sway to infer a dangerous presence stirring to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925469984-23SREH8ZR6YG7NV7MR6I/IMG_0433.jpg Descendants 3 The Isle of the Lost is the Alcatraz-like prison island where all the classic Disney villains, their children, and their hench-people live. Descendants 3 opens on this set, where the children of the Isle learn they’ve been granted a chance to go to school in Auradon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925511410-ZB843HP1XCOKYQ59UGKO/IMG_0354.jpg Descendants 3 Another view of the wretched state of life on the Isle of the Lost. We bought two cement mixers that ran 12+ plus hours a day for months full of mounds of fabric/plastic/old clothing plus sand, gravel, and bricks to get the ratty look we were going for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568603781468-NUU8SLJPG2JXUFVDYEBT/IMG_0438.jpeg Descendants 3 One of the heroes of the Isle of the Lost is Carlos, the son of Cruella De Vil played by the sadly late Cameron Boyce. This is the home for lost boys and girls Carlos sponsored on the Isle of the Lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925540316-SVB52ACWP9QGW9CLCK0M/IMG_0437.jpg Descendants 3 We created pro-Auradon propaganda posters for each of the four VK’s (villain kids) to help promote the idea of Isle of the Lost kids applying to move to the mainland for school. These are Carlos’ (Cameron Boyce) posters in his orphanage set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925568925-PGTMQREEAHG1QSJAE2A5/IMG_0344.jpg Descendants 3 The Isle of the Lost is the tiny, overcrowded home to a dizzying number of oversized, villainous personalities. Villains like Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, Frollo, Scar, Ursula, Dr. Facilier, etc. But maybe the most dangerous and most remote villain is Hades, the antagonist of Disney’s Hercules. An actual god who has lost the most of all the prisoners of the Isle. Here is the foreboding gate complete with Greek-style letters we made for the entrance to his subterranean lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925596766-P7RCTRNHOBKK381BZ8HF/IMG_0467.jpg Descendants 3 The mighty Greek god Hades (Cheyenne Jackson) found as familiar a haunt as he could in an abandoned mine shaft deep under the Isle of the Lost. Director Kenny Ortega saw Hades as a faded rock star. So I created a cool but tattered den for this forgotten rock god. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925616905-FKT8C687WUV562LMX0B4/IMG_0453.jpg Descendants 3 Another view of Hades’ (Cheyenne Jackson) dismal subterranean lair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925651535-DIA2SZAMBLH467L47KJ9/IMG_0462.jpg Descendants 3 Even mighty Hades has been reduced to the scraps of modern society in his his infuriating imprisonment. On the first Descendants movie we decided nothing new had reached the Isle since 1979, and most consumer items were probably much older than that. This is the ad hoc, salvaged stereo/media system I designed for poor Hades (Cheyenne Jackson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925666664-YD9XEDBIPJ5F9OEUL4UP/IMG_0463.jpg Descendants 3 Every villain needs a throne. Hades has adopted a humble mining cart for his lounging. His lair is dotted with mirrors because his fading vanity demands constant affirmation. And his footrest is a jumble of Greek helmets from the souls of the vanquished he’s collected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925704529-KVYGCU9213VE79WQJ8KV/IMG_0208.jpg Descendants 3 I think it’s sometimes helpful to look at the structure of the outside of a set to understand the dimensions and functionality of the inside. Here is the outside of Hades lair showing entrances and exits, wild sections, and lighting elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925733590-RRVYD2ZJ9IMM8XAXPO9C/IMG_0324.jpg Descendants 3 On the Isle of the Lost, the cunning Dr. Facilier (Jamal Sims) from Disney’s Princess and the Frog has opened a VERY underground arcade. This is a wide shot of the carnival-style, secret space I designed for that arcade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925760559-N0WYSX63DYE2ET6ML6FZ/IMG_0301.jpg Descendants 3 The entrance to Dr. Facilier’s secret arcade is based on the mask that was his contact with ‘the other side’ from the classic animation. This was a multi-layered, flat set piece with lights embedded in each layer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925779331-0H9CNCYSHE8PUWMSSZWF/IMG_0312.jpg Descendants 3 Because nothing new has come to the Isle of the Lost in 40 years, I delighted in conceiving totally analog amusements. Everything is powered by hand, and in lieu of glass, the enclosures are rusted chicken wire. Even the nature of the games are things like sea monsters eating sailors off of ships and pickpocket challenges. And because it is Dr. Facilier’s midway, everything is rigged to favor the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925841822-ABC8DZUTQZBTLIEBZZY4/IMG_0205.jpg Descendants 3 One of the analog games in Dr. Facilier’s Voodoo Arcade is the Voodoo game. As a child of the ’80s, I love the look of cheap, mass-produced, stenciled game cabinets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925863579-PTP0TQB18VODOT4NYG4K/IMG_0322.jpg Descendants 3 Here’s the Voodoo game on set between the catapult game and Monster Madness. I think they invoke a semi-familiar but also bizarre sensibility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568612260837-YMO9G066JZ842VSJVER2/IMG_0315.jpeg Descendants 3 The catapult game was an amazingly functional amusement where two working catapults flung bean bags and could topple the prince’s castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925893317-Y935KBZOILFDUWIWETNS/IMG_0313.jpg Descendants 3 Monster Madness featured a schlocky city-scape in which two low-rent Godzilla-style puppets fight over a fire truck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568612276284-JC05ULS4F0OB41HRH6MC/IMG_0318.jpeg Descendants 3 A detail of the crummy city-scape and the analog monsters in the Monster Madness arcade game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925922766-BQCOMFH7W1EA7H74BPFZ/IMG_0295.jpg Descendants 3 New Orleans, Voodoo high priest Dr. Facilier (Jamal Sims) may be stuck on the Alcatraz-like prison of the Isle of the Lost, but he hasn’t lost his magic touch. Within his underground arcade, he has his own tarot/fortune-telling stall. We over-dyed antique quilts in red to create his mystical parlor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1568925939790-0VQ8HNSAP036KJH8L0TV/IMG_0188.jpg Descendants 3 What analog arcade would be complete without dartboards? Because the people of the Isle of the Lost are formerly powerful witches and conjurers who’ve lost their powers, they aren’t very good at anything practical. So these dartboards spin, the scores are random and the darts aren’t really that sharp. https://www.markhofeling.com/zombies-2020 daily 0.75 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238315736-W9UOLPB19WGUYEA9GLNR/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147907216-25VQKGK8ED0CE9JDZ8UW/CIMG6630.JPG Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S opens in the slightly off world of Seabrook, a town that would very much like to forget a zombie apocalypse in the not-too-distant past. A perfect, modern Americana is enforced, outsiders are shunned, and total conformity is the law of the land. This perfect Seabrook neighborhood is exactly as perfect as all the others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925549-RJHU1U4RFQPUFOF5LTMP/IMG_0526.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The soothing, uncomplicated pastel tones reassure the residents that all is well and the past never happened. Even the tulips are planted in a perfect grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925315-A69T7VD65PACTSDP44AP/IMG_0528.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another of the standard-issue Seabrook homes available in one of the 6 legally permitted pastel tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147910134-2XAOXLIE822MDT8FQH0Z/IMG_0456.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Even the domestic interiors reflect a ruthlessly enforced pastel palette. Everything is in its perfect order, the good people of Seabrook only look forward, never back. The home of the young heroine Addison (Meg Donnelly) reflects that comfortable conformity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147911755-N7ZH2RT1TYGK3FBNJ782/IMG_0479.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147909752-N02GGRGVDZ2USEBJ9CT1/IMG_0455.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147970661-61BCO8M7LC7N49529O39/IMG_1069.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 In this strange world, the Seabrook high school Mighty Shrimp reign supreme. And the alphas of Seabrook high are the cheerleaders, led by the almost too-perfect cheer captain, Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) seated here at the exclusive cheer dining table in the cafeteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157537-QOH71F2755NVDVQ4KLO6/20170705_150858_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The cult of cheer captain Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) is expressed in near-religious terms at Seabrook high. The pep rally is an expression of that cult of personality. LED color bars illuminate the perfectly spaced, 36" balloons that frame his layered graphics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238158927-9E86YIU5C9FG9WTCR2AL/20170705_150916_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another view of Bucky's (Trevor Tordjman) temple to himself at the pep rally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973546-O5OIAR1FQG4KT4XOS62E/IMG_6176_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Seabrook high's football team was a key story point. With the help of the optimistic Zombie freshmen Zed (Milo Manheim) they go from last place to contenders for state champs. As most high school football fields are surrounded by non-Seabrook modernity and freeways and have fully branded artificial fields, we were forced to create our own stadium in a rural park- seeding and reconditioning a field, importing bleachers, scoreboards, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148645317-VD4ZTHM89M117YTP3R97/screenshot2.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The central conflict of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is the first day of school integration. Zombies are the hated underclass of Seabrook. Their homicidal cravings having been brought under control by an inhibiting device (the Z-Band), they are now just normal people. But Seabrook still imposes a curfew, offers only menial work, and lives in fear of the Zombies. Here the pastel fearfulness of Seabrook is confronted by the saturated, exuberant excitement of the young zombies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147903702-3K02L5HV9U4Q2AS6CQR8/IMG_0430.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The young zombies’ excitement is soon tempered when they find themselves relegated to the dingy basement for remedial English. The script called for a spoken zombie language, so I thought there should be a written one. The 18 glyphs are based on the folds of the human brain, the object of classic zombie obsession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147906566-P8E1OH1WV5OULALJHF5N/IMG_0371.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another basement space in Seabrook high is one of several zombie safe rooms. While the humans wish to forget the zombie apocalypse, they still prepare for another outbreak. In this bunker, lucky survivors must be prepared to live a decade or more below ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157843-BHS9U4VP4I8LM4HV4TKO/20170704_172751_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Unlike the bland conformity of Seabrook, the "slum" of Zombietown is an organic and ironically liberated place. Walled in and eking out a marginal life from the pre-apocalypse resources and the detritus of Seabrook, the zombies have made an extraordinary community with nearly nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147944687-5WHV6DSGRIXKR5ABVR7X/IMG_1027.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The zombies came into being 50 years ago when an experimental energy lab exploded. Now the surviving zombies have been pushed into the overcrowded neighborhood surrounding the destroyed lab. We found this early 20th-century working-class neighborhood in Hamilton, Ontario, and stripped it of all greenery. Other than the zombies, nothing can grow in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147968594-B772WZJG0SKGHLHM9JQ3/IMG_1081_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Having spent years in a blind haze of ravenous wandering, the recovered zombies live in a wonder of the five senses. They love sound, color, and especially light. Every house in Zombietown is a celebration of each family's particular joy. Bonzo's (James Godfrey) house is a tribute to his love of music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147967887-ONNNN33EU58YSJ6Q08J0/IMG_1086_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another house in Zombietown, the windmill speaks to the zombies’ genius and resourcefulness in doing a lot with a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147978785-1KGNNG4TKHBP4OTDPS9T/unnamed-6.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 This Zombietown house is all about the freedom that wheels offer to people who spent decades staggering aimlessly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147971203-GT2X2WF0TWDK6DTYYHHZ/IMG_1095_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Our young hero Zed's (Milo Manheim) house in Zombietown. His little sister Zoey (Kingston Foster) is obsessed with light. We made the little newspaper/flower light garden for her to tend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147931475-41UI4YNJFAKV9A78RPJJ/IMG_0785.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Zed's (Milo Manheim) room. Zed's dad Zevon (Tony Nappo) has done his best to make life as normal as possible for his kids in this human/zombie apartheid. Their home speaks to the thrift and genius of their kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147937920-MT9HIGJKWHEDA6KKP8MM/IMG_0513_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Zed's (Milo Manheim) easy chair, a repurposed shopping cart in his bedroom in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973594-JDCCSK1P4LQYH0VFTGJ2/P1030369_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The weird and wonderful upstairs hallway in Zed's (Milo Manheim) Zombietown hovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147928640-UFL9XDY02U9X14DHG5O9/IMG_0617.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Zed's (Milo Manheim) family kitchen. Unlike the sterile, pastel human homes, the zombie homes are full of authentic love and realness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147934621-RQR776USXSDZZFICD3PR/IMG_0618.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another view of Zed's (Milo Manheim) kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975346-EWN13J9GMNWHJYN91OAQ/P1030376_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 50 years ago the Seabrook energy plant exploded in a blast of zeta radiation, creating the Zombie race. Totally avoided by humans, the plant is a gathering spot and almost a temple to the zombies. This is the “Light Garden”, an intimate, special place deep within the energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975471-N3YKHNVJZWDVFN7TWACR/P1030382_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 I was very interested in exploring the mythos and identity of the zombies. We determined they were proud of who they are while acknowledging their tumultuous beginnings. So we created a Zombie social realism that celebrated their story. I worked with artist Aurora Kruk to realize this idea. This mural celebrates the zombie renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147962438-56QIFK2N83FW3MAHN3QU/IMG_0943.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Here Aurora Kruk works on the mural celebrating the moment of genesis of the first Zombie, Z. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147932262-6BIXBUAVSQ9YFAJ2CSD5/IMG_0808.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Artist Aurora Kruk works on a mural celebrating the Z-Band, the device that restored the zombie's humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147887803-1BG5COQ31J3QI9E4VTGF/20170622_222117.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The Z-Band mural glowing in black light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147888562-VC9HE4CFGZI7JY5JW61P/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The tentpole musical number of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is BAMM set in the very heart of the ruined energy plant. Here the zombies can truly be themselves safe from human interference. Also here they bring to bear all their ingenuity and technical skill to create a cobbled-together rave-like atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147943907-CYC6YY06XA3V6JO1S44V/IMG_0876.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Another view of the main hall of the ruined energy plant. Invisibly embedded in the center of the "concrete" floor is a "tricking" air mattress system that allowed the zombies to perform choreography that seemed to defy physics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147902213-9FBMZUKIGKDOH43PVICI/20170622_224345.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 We scrounged and built dozens of light elements out of junk and debris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977501-PP21KNV65M3UXK5Z9XDQ/P1030443_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 More zombie-style lights in the ruined energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147942252-D8AKFR7N6LPPYDP4SEUR/IMG_0939.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The tire wall had full spectrum LEDs lining the interiors of each tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147955397-V1B9EAXMRUSB8LHZP3QP/IMG_0953.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 The green zombie "Z" hangs above Eliza's (Kylee Russell) light control booth on a catwalk over the dance floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147957050-TWNST86TS7CVJQ1NZTTR/IMG_0881.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Our jumping jack lights were made by wrapping 2' fluorescent tubes in overlapping layers of colored gel, then screwing loads of those fixtures to angle iron "jacks". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977606-DSZF5PDKPB68NVDWSGUZ/P1030428_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Bonzo's (James Godfrey) DJ booth at the ruined energy plant. Note the organ pipes clustered behind it. They were rigged with CO2 blasts to punctuate the beats of the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521417135341-QW64YSMNYKWXW2AL0TIM/mark+hofeling+light+totems.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 We constructed these "totem poles" out of tires, washing machine drums, flasher barricade lights, old surveillance TVs, etc. Like all the other zombie-style lights they had a huge range of light options built-in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148646242-AFMJGMP3TPMFWMX5X1DN/Z-bam-1509127710.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 Zed (Milo Manheim) leads the zombie dancers in BAMM in the ruined energy plant. https://www.markhofeling.com/julie-the-phantoms daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238315736-W9UOLPB19WGUYEA9GLNR/20170622_221937.jpg Julie & The Phantoms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147907216-25VQKGK8ED0CE9JDZ8UW/CIMG6630.JPG Julie & The Phantoms Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S opens in the slightly off world of Seabrook, a town that would very much like to forget a zombie apocalypse in the not-too-distant past. A perfect, modern Americana is enforced, outsiders are shunned, and total conformity is the law of the land. This perfect Seabrook neighborhood is exactly as perfect as all the others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925549-RJHU1U4RFQPUFOF5LTMP/IMG_0526.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The soothing, uncomplicated pastel tones reassure the residents that all is well and the past never happened. Even the tulips are planted in a perfect grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925315-A69T7VD65PACTSDP44AP/IMG_0528.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another of the standard-issue Seabrook homes available in one of the 6 legally permitted pastel tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147910134-2XAOXLIE822MDT8FQH0Z/IMG_0456.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Even the domestic interiors reflect a ruthlessly enforced pastel palette. Everything is in its perfect order, the good people of Seabrook only look forward, never back. The home of the young heroine Addison (Meg Donnelly) reflects that comfortable conformity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147911755-N7ZH2RT1TYGK3FBNJ782/IMG_0479.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147909752-N02GGRGVDZ2USEBJ9CT1/IMG_0455.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147970661-61BCO8M7LC7N49529O39/IMG_1069.jpg Julie & The Phantoms In this strange world, the Seabrook high school Mighty Shrimp reign supreme. And the alphas of Seabrook high are the cheerleaders, led by the almost too-perfect cheer captain, Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) seated here at the exclusive cheer dining table in the cafeteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157537-QOH71F2755NVDVQ4KLO6/20170705_150858_HDR-X.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The cult of cheer captain Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) is expressed in near-religious terms at Seabrook high. The pep rally is an expression of that cult of personality. LED color bars illuminate the perfectly spaced, 36" balloons that frame his layered graphics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238158927-9E86YIU5C9FG9WTCR2AL/20170705_150916_HDR-X.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another view of Bucky's (Trevor Tordjman) temple to himself at the pep rally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973546-O5OIAR1FQG4KT4XOS62E/IMG_6176_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Seabrook high's football team was a key story point. With the help of the optimistic Zombie freshmen Zed (Milo Manheim) they go from last place to contenders for state champs. As most high school football fields are surrounded by non-Seabrook modernity and freeways and have fully branded artificial fields, we were forced to create our own stadium in a rural park- seeding and reconditioning a field, importing bleachers, scoreboards, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148645317-VD4ZTHM89M117YTP3R97/screenshot2.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The central conflict of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is the first day of school integration. Zombies are the hated underclass of Seabrook. Their homicidal cravings having been brought under control by an inhibiting device (the Z-Band), they are now just normal people. But Seabrook still imposes a curfew, offers only menial work, and lives in fear of the Zombies. Here the pastel fearfulness of Seabrook is confronted by the saturated, exuberant excitement of the young zombies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147903702-3K02L5HV9U4Q2AS6CQR8/IMG_0430.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The young zombies’ excitement is soon tempered when they find themselves relegated to the dingy basement for remedial English. The script called for a spoken zombie language, so I thought there should be a written one. The 18 glyphs are based on the folds of the human brain, the object of classic zombie obsession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147906566-P8E1OH1WV5OULALJHF5N/IMG_0371.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another basement space in Seabrook high is one of several zombie safe rooms. While the humans wish to forget the zombie apocalypse, they still prepare for another outbreak. In this bunker, lucky survivors must be prepared to live a decade or more below ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157843-BHS9U4VP4I8LM4HV4TKO/20170704_172751_HDR-X.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Unlike the bland conformity of Seabrook, the "slum" of Zombietown is an organic and ironically liberated place. Walled in and eking out a marginal life from the pre-apocalypse resources and the detritus of Seabrook, the zombies have made an extraordinary community with nearly nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147944687-5WHV6DSGRIXKR5ABVR7X/IMG_1027.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The zombies came into being 50 years ago when an experimental energy lab exploded. Now the surviving zombies have been pushed into the overcrowded neighborhood surrounding the destroyed lab. We found this early 20th-century working-class neighborhood in Hamilton, Ontario, and stripped it of all greenery. Other than the zombies, nothing can grow in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147968594-B772WZJG0SKGHLHM9JQ3/IMG_1081_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Having spent years in a blind haze of ravenous wandering, the recovered zombies live in a wonder of the five senses. They love sound, color, and especially light. Every house in Zombietown is a celebration of each family's particular joy. Bonzo's (James Godfrey) house is a tribute to his love of music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147967887-ONNNN33EU58YSJ6Q08J0/IMG_1086_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another house in Zombietown, the windmill speaks to the zombies’ genius and resourcefulness in doing a lot with a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147978785-1KGNNG4TKHBP4OTDPS9T/unnamed-6.jpg Julie & The Phantoms This Zombietown house is all about the freedom that wheels offer to people who spent decades staggering aimlessly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147971203-GT2X2WF0TWDK6DTYYHHZ/IMG_1095_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Our young hero Zed's (Milo Manheim) house in Zombietown. His little sister Zoey (Kingston Foster) is obsessed with light. We made the little newspaper/flower light garden for her to tend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147931475-41UI4YNJFAKV9A78RPJJ/IMG_0785.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Zed's (Milo Manheim) room. Zed's dad Zevon (Tony Nappo) has done his best to make life as normal as possible for his kids in this human/zombie apartheid. Their home speaks to the thrift and genius of their kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147937920-MT9HIGJKWHEDA6KKP8MM/IMG_0513_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Zed's (Milo Manheim) easy chair, a repurposed shopping cart in his bedroom in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973594-JDCCSK1P4LQYH0VFTGJ2/P1030369_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The weird and wonderful upstairs hallway in Zed's (Milo Manheim) Zombietown hovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147928640-UFL9XDY02U9X14DHG5O9/IMG_0617.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Zed's (Milo Manheim) family kitchen. Unlike the sterile, pastel human homes, the zombie homes are full of authentic love and realness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147934621-RQR776USXSDZZFICD3PR/IMG_0618.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another view of Zed's (Milo Manheim) kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975346-EWN13J9GMNWHJYN91OAQ/P1030376_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms 50 years ago the Seabrook energy plant exploded in a blast of zeta radiation, creating the Zombie race. Totally avoided by humans, the plant is a gathering spot and almost a temple to the zombies. This is the “Light Garden”, an intimate, special place deep within the energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975471-N3YKHNVJZWDVFN7TWACR/P1030382_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms I was very interested in exploring the mythos and identity of the zombies. We determined they were proud of who they are while acknowledging their tumultuous beginnings. So we created a Zombie social realism that celebrated their story. I worked with artist Aurora Kruk to realize this idea. This mural celebrates the zombie renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147962438-56QIFK2N83FW3MAHN3QU/IMG_0943.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Here Aurora Kruk works on the mural celebrating the moment of genesis of the first Zombie, Z. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147932262-6BIXBUAVSQ9YFAJ2CSD5/IMG_0808.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Artist Aurora Kruk works on a mural celebrating the Z-Band, the device that restored the zombie's humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147887803-1BG5COQ31J3QI9E4VTGF/20170622_222117.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The Z-Band mural glowing in black light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147888562-VC9HE4CFGZI7JY5JW61P/20170622_221937.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The tentpole musical number of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is BAMM set in the very heart of the ruined energy plant. Here the zombies can truly be themselves safe from human interference. Also here they bring to bear all their ingenuity and technical skill to create a cobbled-together rave-like atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147943907-CYC6YY06XA3V6JO1S44V/IMG_0876.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Another view of the main hall of the ruined energy plant. Invisibly embedded in the center of the "concrete" floor is a "tricking" air mattress system that allowed the zombies to perform choreography that seemed to defy physics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147902213-9FBMZUKIGKDOH43PVICI/20170622_224345.jpg Julie & The Phantoms We scrounged and built dozens of light elements out of junk and debris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977501-PP21KNV65M3UXK5Z9XDQ/P1030443_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms More zombie-style lights in the ruined energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147942252-D8AKFR7N6LPPYDP4SEUR/IMG_0939.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The tire wall had full spectrum LEDs lining the interiors of each tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147955397-V1B9EAXMRUSB8LHZP3QP/IMG_0953.jpg Julie & The Phantoms The green zombie "Z" hangs above Eliza's (Kylee Russell) light control booth on a catwalk over the dance floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147957050-TWNST86TS7CVJQ1NZTTR/IMG_0881.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Our jumping jack lights were made by wrapping 2' fluorescent tubes in overlapping layers of colored gel, then screwing loads of those fixtures to angle iron "jacks". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977606-DSZF5PDKPB68NVDWSGUZ/P1030428_preview.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Bonzo's (James Godfrey) DJ booth at the ruined energy plant. Note the organ pipes clustered behind it. They were rigged with CO2 blasts to punctuate the beats of the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521417135341-QW64YSMNYKWXW2AL0TIM/mark+hofeling+light+totems.jpg Julie & The Phantoms We constructed these "totem poles" out of tires, washing machine drums, flasher barricade lights, old surveillance TVs, etc. Like all the other zombie-style lights they had a huge range of light options built-in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148646242-AFMJGMP3TPMFWMX5X1DN/Z-bam-1509127710.jpg Julie & The Phantoms Zed (Milo Manheim) leads the zombie dancers in BAMM in the ruined energy plant. https://www.markhofeling.com/disneys-zombies-2-copy daily 0.75 2022-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238315736-W9UOLPB19WGUYEA9GLNR/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147907216-25VQKGK8ED0CE9JDZ8UW/CIMG6630.JPG Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S opens in the slightly off world of Seabrook, a town that would very much like to forget a zombie apocalypse in the not-too-distant past. A perfect, modern Americana is enforced, outsiders are shunned, and total conformity is the law of the land. This perfect Seabrook neighborhood is exactly as perfect as all the others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925549-RJHU1U4RFQPUFOF5LTMP/IMG_0526.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The soothing, uncomplicated pastel tones reassure the residents that all is well and the past never happened. Even the tulips are planted in a perfect grid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147925315-A69T7VD65PACTSDP44AP/IMG_0528.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another of the standard-issue Seabrook homes available in one of the 6 legally permitted pastel tones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147910134-2XAOXLIE822MDT8FQH0Z/IMG_0456.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Even the domestic interiors reflect a ruthlessly enforced pastel palette. Everything is in its perfect order, the good people of Seabrook only look forward, never back. The home of the young heroine Addison (Meg Donnelly) reflects that comfortable conformity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147911755-N7ZH2RT1TYGK3FBNJ782/IMG_0479.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family living room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147909752-N02GGRGVDZ2USEBJ9CT1/IMG_0455.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Addison's (Meg Donnelly) family kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147970661-61BCO8M7LC7N49529O39/IMG_1069.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 In this strange world, the Seabrook high school Mighty Shrimp reign supreme. And the alphas of Seabrook high are the cheerleaders, led by the almost too-perfect cheer captain, Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) seated here at the exclusive cheer dining table in the cafeteria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157537-QOH71F2755NVDVQ4KLO6/20170705_150858_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The cult of cheer captain Bucky (Trevor Tordjman) is expressed in near-religious terms at Seabrook high. The pep rally is an expression of that cult of personality. LED color bars illuminate the perfectly spaced, 36" balloons that frame his layered graphics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238158927-9E86YIU5C9FG9WTCR2AL/20170705_150916_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another view of Bucky's (Trevor Tordjman) temple to himself at the pep rally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973546-O5OIAR1FQG4KT4XOS62E/IMG_6176_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Seabrook high's football team was a key story point. With the help of the optimistic Zombie freshmen Zed (Milo Manheim) they go from last place to contenders for state champs. As most high school football fields are surrounded by non-Seabrook modernity and freeways and have fully branded artificial fields, we were forced to create our own stadium in a rural park- seeding and reconditioning a field, importing bleachers, scoreboards, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148645317-VD4ZTHM89M117YTP3R97/screenshot2.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The central conflict of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is the first day of school integration. Zombies are the hated underclass of Seabrook. Their homicidal cravings having been brought under control by an inhibiting device (the Z-Band), they are now just normal people. But Seabrook still imposes a curfew, offers only menial work, and lives in fear of the Zombies. Here the pastel fearfulness of Seabrook is confronted by the saturated, exuberant excitement of the young zombies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147903702-3K02L5HV9U4Q2AS6CQR8/IMG_0430.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The young zombies’ excitement is soon tempered when they find themselves relegated to the dingy basement for remedial English. The script called for a spoken zombie language, so I thought there should be a written one. The 18 glyphs are based on the folds of the human brain, the object of classic zombie obsession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147906566-P8E1OH1WV5OULALJHF5N/IMG_0371.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another basement space in Seabrook high is one of several zombie safe rooms. While the humans wish to forget the zombie apocalypse, they still prepare for another outbreak. In this bunker, lucky survivors must be prepared to live a decade or more below ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521238157843-BHS9U4VP4I8LM4HV4TKO/20170704_172751_HDR-X.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Unlike the bland conformity of Seabrook, the "slum" of Zombietown is an organic and ironically liberated place. Walled in and eking out a marginal life from the pre-apocalypse resources and the detritus of Seabrook, the zombies have made an extraordinary community with nearly nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147944687-5WHV6DSGRIXKR5ABVR7X/IMG_1027.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The zombies came into being 50 years ago when an experimental energy lab exploded. Now the surviving zombies have been pushed into the overcrowded neighborhood surrounding the destroyed lab. We found this early 20th-century working-class neighborhood in Hamilton, Ontario, and stripped it of all greenery. Other than the zombies, nothing can grow in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147968594-B772WZJG0SKGHLHM9JQ3/IMG_1081_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Having spent years in a blind haze of ravenous wandering, the recovered zombies live in a wonder of the five senses. They love sound, color, and especially light. Every house in Zombietown is a celebration of each family's particular joy. Bonzo's (James Godfrey) house is a tribute to his love of music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147967887-ONNNN33EU58YSJ6Q08J0/IMG_1086_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another house in Zombietown, the windmill speaks to the zombies’ genius and resourcefulness in doing a lot with a little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147978785-1KGNNG4TKHBP4OTDPS9T/unnamed-6.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 This Zombietown house is all about the freedom that wheels offer to people who spent decades staggering aimlessly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147971203-GT2X2WF0TWDK6DTYYHHZ/IMG_1095_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Our young hero Zed's (Milo Manheim) house in Zombietown. His little sister Zoey (Kingston Foster) is obsessed with light. We made the little newspaper/flower light garden for her to tend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147931475-41UI4YNJFAKV9A78RPJJ/IMG_0785.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Zed's (Milo Manheim) room. Zed's dad Zevon (Tony Nappo) has done his best to make life as normal as possible for his kids in this human/zombie apartheid. Their home speaks to the thrift and genius of their kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147937920-MT9HIGJKWHEDA6KKP8MM/IMG_0513_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Zed's (Milo Manheim) easy chair, a repurposed shopping cart in his bedroom in Zombietown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147973594-JDCCSK1P4LQYH0VFTGJ2/P1030369_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The weird and wonderful upstairs hallway in Zed's (Milo Manheim) Zombietown hovel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147928640-UFL9XDY02U9X14DHG5O9/IMG_0617.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Zed's (Milo Manheim) family kitchen. Unlike the sterile, pastel human homes, the zombie homes are full of authentic love and realness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147934621-RQR776USXSDZZFICD3PR/IMG_0618.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another view of Zed's (Milo Manheim) kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975346-EWN13J9GMNWHJYN91OAQ/P1030376_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 50 years ago the Seabrook energy plant exploded in a blast of zeta radiation, creating the Zombie race. Totally avoided by humans, the plant is a gathering spot and almost a temple to the zombies. This is the “Light Garden”, an intimate, special place deep within the energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147975471-N3YKHNVJZWDVFN7TWACR/P1030382_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 I was very interested in exploring the mythos and identity of the zombies. We determined they were proud of who they are while acknowledging their tumultuous beginnings. So we created a Zombie social realism that celebrated their story. I worked with artist Aurora Kruk to realize this idea. This mural celebrates the zombie renaissance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147962438-56QIFK2N83FW3MAHN3QU/IMG_0943.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Here Aurora Kruk works on the mural celebrating the moment of genesis of the first Zombie, Z. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147932262-6BIXBUAVSQ9YFAJ2CSD5/IMG_0808.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Artist Aurora Kruk works on a mural celebrating the Z-Band, the device that restored the zombie's humanity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147887803-1BG5COQ31J3QI9E4VTGF/20170622_222117.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The Z-Band mural glowing in black light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147888562-VC9HE4CFGZI7JY5JW61P/20170622_221937.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The tentpole musical number of Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S is BAMM set in the very heart of the ruined energy plant. Here the zombies can truly be themselves safe from human interference. Also here they bring to bear all their ingenuity and technical skill to create a cobbled-together rave-like atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147943907-CYC6YY06XA3V6JO1S44V/IMG_0876.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Another view of the main hall of the ruined energy plant. Invisibly embedded in the center of the "concrete" floor is a "tricking" air mattress system that allowed the zombies to perform choreography that seemed to defy physics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147902213-9FBMZUKIGKDOH43PVICI/20170622_224345.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 We scrounged and built dozens of light elements out of junk and debris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977501-PP21KNV65M3UXK5Z9XDQ/P1030443_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 More zombie-style lights in the ruined energy plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147942252-D8AKFR7N6LPPYDP4SEUR/IMG_0939.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The tire wall had full spectrum LEDs lining the interiors of each tire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147955397-V1B9EAXMRUSB8LHZP3QP/IMG_0953.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 The green zombie "Z" hangs above Eliza's (Kylee Russell) light control booth on a catwalk over the dance floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147957050-TWNST86TS7CVJQ1NZTTR/IMG_0881.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Our jumping jack lights were made by wrapping 2' fluorescent tubes in overlapping layers of colored gel, then screwing loads of those fixtures to angle iron "jacks". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521147977606-DSZF5PDKPB68NVDWSGUZ/P1030428_preview.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Bonzo's (James Godfrey) DJ booth at the ruined energy plant. Note the organ pipes clustered behind it. They were rigged with CO2 blasts to punctuate the beats of the song. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521417135341-QW64YSMNYKWXW2AL0TIM/mark+hofeling+light+totems.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 We constructed these "totem poles" out of tires, washing machine drums, flasher barricade lights, old surveillance TVs, etc. Like all the other zombie-style lights they had a huge range of light options built-in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/526b2cd1e4b0c72bb55d8ea7/1521148646242-AFMJGMP3TPMFWMX5X1DN/Z-bam-1509127710.jpg Disney's Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 Zed (Milo Manheim) leads the zombie dancers in BAMM in the ruined energy plant.