Solutions-oriented approach leveraged either independently or through collaboration with other companies and service providers.
- HatFields VS McCoys dance performance backdrops
The Dance Factory of Morganton contacted me about providing backdrops for a Christmas program. To fit their needs and budget, I designed three 15′ x 20′ backgrounds, which we hand painted on seamed canvas. - Talking Decapitated head-on-a-pike.
A local playwright (Freddy Bradburn) wrote a bit in a folk tale performance that included a decapitated head, placed on a pike at the edge of town as a warning to others, that comes to life, greets its former traveling companions, and joins them in a song. And it needed to look like the actor portraying the living version of the character. We started with a life cast, and created a flexible machie mask in the shape of the actor’s face. After taking measurements from the life cast, I designed and built mechanisms for the mouth and eyes. The eyes … - Blue Flames
Wrapping vector flame patterns across a golf cart hood with a uniform “blown-back” look required a map of the changing angles, so we wrapped the nose in a giant sheet of paper and made one. Working carefully over the pattern, we built the flames from both the center out and the edge in, aiming for the transition point of the hood’s curve. Print, trim, and apply!