Set Design

Here are some sample sets with various types of design drawings and renderings. As I work to advance my skills, I’ll try to keep this page refreshed.

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3-Story Victorian Railcar Flat

To deepen my skills, I decided to design a multi-story set with LOTS of bells and whistles. What better style to choose than Victorian? I want it to feel tight to enhance the story that these very different characters are trapped together in a large but narrow house.

Guard Shack

Guest House

Props

One of my specialties is in using math to design forms that are then produced by CNC.

Parametric Design

I’m currently designing a 3-story victorian house set in order to hone my parametric design skills. These houses contain LOTS of complex geometry.

These detailed jobs can be GREATLY sped up by creating some scripts to automate the repetitive stuff. In this first example, we can generate the initial set design by quickly laying down colored lines and writing a script to interpret those lines as walls, doors and windows. Placements, heights, thicknesses, etc. can all be changed on the fly, seeing the results in realtime.

Parametric Trim

Next is one of the defining features of these victorian flats - the trim. I wrote a similar set of scripts to take profiles from the trim catalog and apply them to another set of colored lines with extra parameters to help get the orientation correct. Once the guide lines are set up, these profiles can be quickly changed and visualized to meet the needs of the design team.

Parametric Doors

Here’s a quick video demonstration of a script that I wrote to generate the variety of doors that we might use on this set. It gives lots of realtime control over the final result and creates real CAD geometry instantly.