Fjerdan prisoner transport, Shadow & Bone. Ship set on gimbal, with SPFX sea washing in.
Definitely Not First Class
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No Pressure…
Dani & Edmund’s engagement party from Episode 4 of The Haunting Of Bly Manor. The goal here was to create a sense of over-arching claustrophobic and unfulfillable expectation. The greatest challenge was to create Dani and Edmund’s life in photos, spanning several decades.
Gallows Hill – Fort Salem
From Motherland: Fort Salem, Season 1.
On the scripted page, there’s a powerful layering of imagery and a blurring visual boundaries during the Gallows Hill scene. What we think is real is only pretend and what we discover to be real in this world is fantasy in our own.
With show runner Eliot Laurence and director Steven Adelson, the art department was determined to give this scene the visual impact it demanded. In order to achieve this, we drew on theatre imagery from the 18th century, specifically the street spectacles of France and Italy. This was a world of flickering floor lights and painted canvas, where great crimes and great deeds were both on the playbill. The “hand pained” curtain and backdrop were in fact created digitally by the brilliant Jonathan Stamp and then printed onto commercial sign canvas.
Sarah Alder faces her tormentors
Sarah Alder signs the Accord
The Salem Accord recited
Stage as gallows
Gallows becomes Accord signing
Backdrop painting
Galows stage transformed
Under The Streets of Moscow for MI4
A model I built a few years ago. Just finished watching “Top Gun: Maverick” with my kids and was reminded how fun it was working on Ghost Protocol. The model was used not only used for previz and shot planning, but also a to-scale reference for Construction, Set Dec and Viz Effects
Moscow Sewer Detail
Moscow Sewer Detail
Moscow Sewer Cut-away
Complete model. It’s really about what’s inside.
Smooth Surface Form Studies
As Bruce Mau says: “Begin Anywhere”.
I’ve noticed that often scriptwriters/producers’ offices are filled with figures and objects that are used for working out senarios and dialogue. Building on this, I created my own series of objects to have on hand as visual story telling idea generators.
Final forms – still need bases
The beginning
Playing with forms inspired by modernist sculptors
Copyright Peter Bodnarus
A lonely dacha deep in the Siberian taiga
From Supergirl Season 4. For this set, we took an existing cabin and added the classic elements of a Siberian Dacha. The “kid’s playtime” dressing came directly from my own experience raising some energetic and imaginative boys. #Supergirl
Babushka’s dacha somewhere in the Taiga
Babushka’s dacha somewhere in the Taiga
The only playmate for a lonely boy with super powers hidden in the Siberian forest.
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