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The Shiva Weapon – Concept and Design

I was lucky enough to get to do the design concept for the “SHIVA” weapon, which was features and used heavily throughout the first half of MacGyver Season 4. It was a fictional weapon designed by Nicola Tesla himself, designed as a super-weapon that could stop war. The idea was that it was some kind of turret gun/tesla coil mashup so I ran with those ideas to make some interesting shapes that would look cool and intricate from various angles and got the concept together in about a day. Shout out to Katie Wheelock for creating the sketchup model/construction drawings and designing the control panel! Also shout out to the amazing construction team on Macgyver for building the thing, which included coiling copper wires around tubes for hours. Thanks a ton!

 


Artemis Jayne Product Box

The producers wanted something that recalled the Drew Struzen-esque movie posters from the eighties, especially those inspired by Riply from the film Alien. I had to create a fictional strong female character for an imaginary film. unfortuantely we only had a day to finalize the artwork, so there was a bit of a scramble, but the end result turned out great and was highly featured!


 


MacGyver Products and Props

As one might imagine, Macgyver, Season 4 was absolutely loaded with fictional products that needed custom skins. Here’s a selection of some of them.


Blue Post Neon BBQ Sign

Some outdoor signage I designed for our Blue Post BBQ location in Tammy. Melissa McCarthy ended up keeping the Neon sign, because it looked pretty nifty.


Newspapers – various

Over the years I’ve done loads of news papers and inserts for various shows. As we move into the modern world, newspapers have become less and less frequent, but for vintage or period pieces, newspapers are ubiquitous.


Sleepy Hollow Map

A Vintage-style map of the Town of Sleepy Hollow for the second season of Sleepy Hollow. Used as a foundation for a model as well as for set decoration and reference throughout the show. Had hundreds of buildings for detail and texture.

Some detail Shots:

Here’s the final Map:

Original map size was larger as pictured below:


Fictional Book Covers

Here are an assortment of Fictional Book covers I made for various shows. Some were Props, Some were background for Set Dec.

 


Mr. Friendly’s Frosteeez

For Mr Mercedes we had to design a creepy ice cream truck for one of our characters. I got to design a mascot and layout all the different brands and types of ice cream, many of which were real, some were original.


Supreme Electronix – Mr Mercedes

For Mr. Mercedes we had to create and dress an entire electronics store, complete with branding, signage, a Geek Squad-esque brand of IT people. Etc…

 


Revolution Backings

Here are a number of backings that I shot for Revolution, One of which I flew to Philadelphia for. While I was there I shot loads of other photographs that came in handy for various VFX plates later in the season.