The model and the almost-fully-constructed set. More pictures from the production to come!
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Design Dump: Attend the Tale…
I’m designing the set for the Spring Fling 2010 production of Sweeney Todd at Penn. Here’s the progression of SketchUp models so far, from unedited inklings to something close to the final thing. There will be more to come as the process of building unfolds.
Parts in the models I didn’t create (from Google 3D Warehouse):
Wall Sconce by Google
Bench by Shinnah
Chair by de Blac
Table by Acorn
Bed by anonymous
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Tagged set design, SketchUp, Spring Fling, Sweeney Todd, theater
SketchUp: Sets and Spaces
Here’s a collection of SketchUp renderings of sets I designed for class (Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House) and a student theater production (Paul Zindel’s The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) during my freshman year at Penn. I’ve also included models I did of my dorm room and apartment from freshman and sophomore years respectively (because, you know, every incoming freshman does a scale model of his/her room). Lest this post risk seeming self-indulgent, I should note that I’m adding more design/modeling work (elementary as it may be) because the vast majority of hits to the site are coming from people looking for information about or pictures of set designs or SketchUp models.
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- Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Front View
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- A Doll’s House, backstage reveal
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- Freshman Dorm Room
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- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Draft 1
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- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Draft 2
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- The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Draft 3
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- Sophomore Year Apartment
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- Sophomore Year Apartment, view from outside/windows
Design Dump: Old School
These are renderings and models I did in high school (when my media were simply paper and glue), as well as photographs of the production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that I designed for my high school senior project (after the ‘more’ button). The play was supposed to be performed outside but, in true Boston form, it rained the entire week leading up to and during the performances. We relocated to the gym and created a stage space with the backs of bleachers, used flood lights from Home Depot (the voltage of the theater lights was too high for the gym’s electrical system) and borrowed a strip of turf from the baseball team’s batting cage. It all turned out just fine.
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Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, ground plan, Lysistrata, model, rendering, set design, theater
Design Dump: from Model to Reality
Here are some SketchUp renderings and photos of sets I’ve done over the past few years. Some of the models don’t have realized counterparts (a few were projects for class).
The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things
john & jen
john & jen
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Tagged a separate peace, john & jen, medea, midsummer, set design, SketchUp, the shape of things, theater
‘Tis the Season
Another project I’ve been working on with Brigitte Hurtubise (research, Spanish translation, agent scheduling), Pengfei Huang (coding, OGRE), Joe Kider (coding, OGRE), Norm Badler (faculty overseer), Emily Weihrich (people) and Diana Forest (props) is rendering an ancient Inca ploughing ritual using CAROSA (Crowds with Aleatoric, Reactive, Opportunistic, and Scheduled Actions). A few weeks ago I suited up to do motion capture for the ritual (sample movements: “sacrifice llamas,” “dance in one-two rhythm”), and now we’re in the process of creating people, props, mapping the environment, and coding the schedules of the ‘agents’ in the ritual. The final project will include narration (in English and Spanish) of the ritual itself, the mythological origins of the Inca and how they relate to this particular ritual, and the astronomical significance of this day in the Inca calendar. We’re not done yet, but here are some images from the process:
I finally figured out how to use the sandbox features in SketchUp.
Pengfei Huang's OGRE version of SketchUp model.
Design Dump: Eurydice Photographs
Two design dumps in one day… I must be getting selfish.
Here are some photos from the production of Eurydice. Photos courtesy of Aude Broos and Susannah Krewson (co-designer), directed by Will Steinberger, starring Jennifer Birnkrant (housemate) as Eurydice, Jack Stanley as Orpheus, Harrison Unger as Father, Matt Reese as Nasty Interesting Man, and Aude Broos, Nicole Holz and Emily Boland as the Stones. Lighting design by John Campbell, costumes by Violette Carb.
Design Dump: Eurydice Renderings
The following are Google SketchUp renderings of the set design for Penn’s iNtuitons Experimental Theatre Group’s production of Eurydice (by Sarah Ruhl), from the first designs to the last (before construction). I collaborated with Susannah Krewson in brainstorming and designing, and worked with an amazing set crew and dedicated master carpenter to construct the final product.
