form·Z Gallery
  « prev | next »
 

Richard Reynolds


Malibu, California
rar3@shoreline-wireless.com

"I've changed my career focus since I started working with form•Z. Being an Art Director required lots of coordination - making sure information was getting to all the designers, ensuring the progress of workflow. Since using form•Z, though, I've discovered my passion. It has allowed me to enthusiastically embrace drawing up set designs."

"The previsualization of a set requires repeated iterations. Often times the design will be OK'd by the Art Director, the Production Director, then it gets all the way up to the construction crew...and someone changes their mind. You have to start all over again. We usually end up creating four to ten versions of a set before we can settle into something that everyone's happy with."

 

 

 

 

Planet of the Apes set design
"The spaceship was initially done as a sculptural model. From that, they tried to draft the set traditionally, but were unsuccessful because the geometry was so complex...there were so many pinnacles. They called me up and I was able to create a form•Z model of the physical model. form•Z allowed me to take section cuts at any point and produce construction drawings from them. Because of its complexity, the whole thing was built in 20 foot sections. It was enormous." "All the parts were constructed in LA and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scene was shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error. Due to form•Z's precision, the whole thing went together beautifully from the draftings."

"PLANET OF THE APES" © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Planet of the Apes set design
"The spaceship was initially done as a sculptural model. From that, they tried to draft the set traditionally, but were unsuccessful because the geometry was so complex...there were so many pinnacles. They called me up and I was able to create a form•Z model of the physical model. form•Z allowed me to take section cuts at any point and produce construction drawings from them. Because of its complexity, the whole thing was built in 20 foot sections. It was enormous." "All the parts were constructed in LA and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scene was shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error. Due to form•Z's precision, the whole thing went together beautifully from the draftings."

"PLANET OF THE APES" © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Planet of the Apes set design
"The spaceship was initially done as a sculptural model. From that, they tried to draft the set traditionally, but were unsuccessful because the geometry was so complex...there were so many pinnacles. They called me up and I was able to create a form•Z model of the physical model. form•Z allowed me to take section cuts at any point and produce construction drawings from them. Because of its complexity, the whole thing was built in 20 foot sections. It was enormous." "All the parts were constructed in LA and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scene was shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error. Due to form•Z's precision, the whole thing went together beautifully from the draftings."

"PLANET OF THE APES" © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Planet of the Apes set design
"The spaceship was initially done as a sculptural model. From that, they tried to draft the set traditionally, but were unsuccessful because the geometry was so complex...there were so many pinnacles. They called me up and I was able to create a form•Z model of the physical model. form•Z allowed me to take section cuts at any point and produce construction drawings from them. Because of its complexity, the whole thing was built in 20 foot sections. It was enormous." "All the parts were constructed in LA and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scene was shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error. Due to form•Z's precision, the whole thing went together beautifully from the draftings."

"PLANET OF THE APES" © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Planet of the Apes set design
"The spaceship was initially done as a sculptural model. From that, they tried to draft the set traditionally, but were unsuccessful because the geometry was so complex...there were so many pinnacles. They called me up and I was able to create a form•Z model of the physical model. form•Z allowed me to take section cuts at any point and produce construction drawings from them. Because of its complexity, the whole thing was built in 20 foot sections. It was enormous." "All the parts were constructed in LA and had to be taken to the Mojave Desert, where the scene was shot. There were seven truckloads worth of pinnacles alone. Each of the pinnacles were nearly 100 feet long. The final product ended up being equivalent to a 10-story building tilted at about 30 degrees. It was a real challenge because the footings had been placed in the sand nearly a month before the pinnacles were put in. There was absolutely no room for error. Due to form•Z's precision, the whole thing went together beautifully from the draftings."

"PLANET OF THE APES" © 2001 Twentieth Century Fox. All rights reserved.

Mission to Mars set design
On this feature I used form•Z to model and design 3D pre-vis sets, full drafted constuction drawings of sets, arranged proposed sets on possible stages to see what shots were possible with specific camera angles, and provided animated walk-throughs of sets.

Mission to Mars set design
On this feature I used form•Z to model and design 3D pre-vis sets, full drafted constuction drawings of sets, arranged proposed sets on possible stages to see what shots were possible with specific camera angles, and provided animated walk-throughs of sets.

Tempieto

Tempieto

Tennessee for Pearl Harbor
I used form•Z to design and pre-vis a proposed built battleship deck placed on top of a floating barge located adjacent to the real battleship "Missouri" in an accurate 3d model of Pearl Harbor, and provided an animated camera move around the entire set.