Traditional and Computer Aided Design and Graphics
Los Angeles, California, USA, Terra, Solar System Sol, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Super Cluster, Local Universe

Computer Rendering

Programs AutoCAD © R10 to 2014 (AutoCAD © and AutoCAD © Architecture), 3D Studio Max, 3, SketchUp, Vectorworks V10

Note: These drawings are presented here for portfolio purposes only. These drawings are not available for sale or to be given away in hard copy or digitally in any scale. I will be happy to show hard-copy during a legitimate job interview for Set Designer.

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I am adding many new models from several programs and updating.


Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion.


Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion.


Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion.


Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion.

Set in stage.
Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion.

Concept model, set, recreation room. Model in Rhino, rendering in Twinmotion, simulated water color in Photoshop.


Concept, Star Ship Home Theater. Modeled in Rhino, graphics from AutoCAD and Photoshop, rendered in Twinmotion. 2023.


Concept, Star Ship Home Theater. Modeled in Rhino, graphics from AutoCAD and Photoshop, rendered in Rhino. 2023.


Concept, Star Ship Home Theater. Modeled in Rhino, graphics from AutoCAD and Photoshop, rendered in Twinmotion. 2023.

Fly-around video of Star Ship Home Theater concept.


Construction, Rhino, 2019 Ark II.

Construction, Rhino, 2019
Ark II.

Landing Gear, Rhino, 2019
Ark II.


Landing Gear and Engines, Rhino, 2019 Ark II.


Landing Gear, Rhino, 2019 Ark II.


My first Rhino project. 2018. Landing gear for space craft.

Engine.

Construction site.


Cheap_Motel, SketchUp 2019. Snowfall. Reconfiguring a stock set.

Modeling my house, just for practice. Rhino, 2018.

Atlantis Two. Made entirely in SketchUp and I made all the components myself from aircraft to watercraft, people to plants, accessories to buildings. SketchUp 8. 2013.

Fly Through Animation on YouTube

Go directly to YouTube


A Star Trek like living room interior. AutoCAD ® 2002. 2004. Interior and exterior of the main front door.


A Star Trek like living room interior. AutoCAD ® 2002. 2004. The client and I experimented if the shape of the ribs. Note the differences between the two.

Kitchen cabinet for the above Star Trek like house.

AutoCAD ©; 2004. 2004.

Rendering of display.	Rendering of display.
Allpro Helmets, Layout one. AutoCAD ADT 3.3/2003, 2004.

Rendering of display.	Rendering of display.
Sexy Hair Products, AutoCAD ADT 3.3 ©;. 2003.

Truss system.	Detail.
Sexy Hair Products, AutoCAD ADT 3.3 ©;. 2003.

UFO.	We were so busy trying to get the last shot before sundown, we didn't notice the UFO.

Early design.	Later design. The doors were animated in 3D Studio.
Gabrielle, Waiting Room, AutoCAD ® 2000. 2000.

Tunnel to birth.	Office.
Gabrielle, AutoCAD ® 2000. 2000.

Corridor.	Office.
Gabrielle, AutoCAD ® 2000. 2000.

Background made in Photoshop from personal astro slides and a purchased image of earth. AutoCAD ®, 1998.

Earth side.

Stereo renderings. Put your nose about 4 inches from
the screen and stare at these renderings, left eye on left
image, right eye on right image, then cross your eyes
until the images merge at center .

Reverse side.	Close up view.

Space Station, AutoCAD ®. 1998.

I worked for an architect for a year and spent half my time on 2D and half on 3D using . While employed by R. F. McCann and Company, Theater Architects, Pasadena California I made dozens of renderings of several theater projects. All were made in AutoCAD ©; R14 with materials and some touch-up made in Photoshop.

Inglewood mercantile and theater center.

Sacramento Theater Company.

Sacramento Theater Company small studio theater.

Sacramento Light Opera Association.

Sacramento Light Opera Association, tent interior.

Sacramento Light Opera Association tent.

Sacramento Light Opera Association, site.

Sacramento Light Opera Association tent interior.

Sacramento Light Opera Association, concourse.

Sacramento Light Opera Association.

Sacramento Light Opera Association tent.

Sacramento Light Opera Association.

Sacramento Light Opera Association tent.

Deaf West Theater.

Sign

Over 20 shape studies were made in less than a day.

Over 20 color studies were made in less than a day.

Shrek

Last rendering. Intended as a massing model.

Preliminary on Fiona's bed.

I worked on Batman Returns and Batman Forever, both as a Visual Effects Model Maker. For Batman Forever, a miniature helicopter crashed into a break-away sign. Because the three copies of the faceted iris of the Eye Sign were made of tempered glass, it was decided to lay the parts out in 3D. I used the 3D capabilities of AutoCAD ©; to generate an accurate drawing of the 11 different planes of glass. We didn't use the third copy and it was used for a full size optometry store sign in a scene from Batman and Robin two years later. By this time, I was a Visual Efects Set Designer on that feature and I made a new, smaller, miniature layout for a matching miniature of the store.

I did this as a demo in the days before starting Outbreak, to show the possibility of doing more of the Set Design work in 3D. It was determined that 2D was sufficient. Sample ship model. AutoCAD © R12. 1992.

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