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Props
Props are a unique challenge, as they often require thinking about graphics 3-dimensionally and are possibly the most varied area of graphics. Of course, this is what makes doing them so enjoyable.
3 Months: Condom Box
A full box construction, ordered cut out and scored for easy assembly by the Props team. I pride myself on fully-detailed packaging that could pass for real even up close.
Average Joe: Cereal Box
Cereal box for an organic grocery store. Detailed enough to pass for real up close, fully box assembly with score guides.
Average Joe: Diner Menu Placemat
A placemat menu for a diner, with ads & coupons around the edges.
BMF: Sega Genesis box
Taking place in the 90s, there was a scene with a brand new Sega Genesis. While clearance was fine with the box design, they wouldn't clear the photo on the real box. So the solution was to shoot my own cover photo and recreate the rest of the graphics exactly.
Average Joe: Fish Sticks
Fictitious fish sticks box.
BMF: Vintage Lysol Label
One of the more fun tasks is recreating vintage items that we've been cleared to use, but which can't be sourced. This is one of those.
BMF: TV Dinner
We were allowed to use Swanson, but had to create a custom box to suit the script. This involved recreating vintage Swanson branding and box, shooting a photo of the tray that props had, and photoshopping in the proper food elements.
BMF: Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket
One of several scratch-off designs I made. We had to make them scratched and unscratched, with winners and losers among the scratched. I worked with our vendor to produce realistic-looking scratchers, matching the sheen variations to a real ticket with a complex combination of paper finishes and spot varnish application. The final printed tickets fooled people in person. Also of note: I was proud of the name of this one; "What Up Dough" is a play on the oft-used Detroit greeting on the show, "Whattup, doe."
Cobra Kai: Miyagi Scoresheet
This is a tournament scoresheet meant to be from the late 1940s, with hand-written notes.
BMF: Veteran Bumper Sticker Options
This was a last-minute request for a scene shooting same day. Without the time to run through approvals, I just made a wide variety of styles to send to set to ensure the director had options.
Cobra Kai: Cave Map
This is a cave map, made in a brushed ink style for a remote Korean village.
Preacher: Cigarette Pack
A box-top cigarette pack created with the show's fictitious "Pilgrims" brand (a nod to the imaginary John Wayne character from the comics).
Preacher: Soul Sucker Manual
These are 4 of the 45 pages created for the manual to a prop for removing and distilling people's souls. I made Ikea-style illustrations of the actual prop along with accurate descriptions of how to operate the machine that are consistent with its on-camera use.
DC's Stargirl: Soda Cans
This is the same soda brand in two different time periods. The blue stripes keep a consistency to the branding, while the logo has been updated in the intervening decades, as well as having much more nutritional information added to the modern can.
Powerpuff: Newspaper
One of several newspapers made for the pilot, each requiring a different masthead and custom photo.
DC's Stargirl: Vodka Label
This vodka label is one of many, many Easter Eggs I included in my graphics across the show. "Duginovna" is the last name of an alt-universe Stargirl in the comics.
The Walking Dead: Golf Ball Package
A meticulously laid out box for golf balls, with a window to see the contents. Made with all the detail such as box could have, printed and cut to shape with score marks for easy assembly.
Sleepy Hollow: Gun Magazine
I crafted the cover of this magazine by taking a photo of 18th century musket props in the props lockup and working the headlines around that.
Sleepy Hollow: Jack the Ripper Newspaper
This involved a lot of research into newspapers of the late 1800s. It was made to the correct size, with period-accurate illustrations and typeface.
Survivor's Remorse: Apple Brandy Labels
Labels for 2 different bottle styles.
Survivor's Remorse: Sports Ticket
A ticket to a sporting event.
Sleepy Hollow: Costume Packaging
In order to match the model to the contents of the package, we used our Art Department Coordinator, Matt, as our model.
Sleepy Hollow - Woodcut
Using a rough sketch as a guide, I made a woodcut-look illustration.
Sleepy Hollow: Menu
One of roughly 6 million menus I have made over the years.
Sleepy Hollow: Chocolate bar.
Very detailed.
Sleepy Hollow: Civics Textbook.
It was scripted as having George Washington astride a bald eagle on the cover. Yes, please.
Sleepy Hollow: Cocktail Onion Jar
A last-minute request with no time to run a fake brand name through clearance, I just made a label that says "Jar of cocktail onions" in a font that, at a glance, looks like a brand name and isn't an easy read. Worked pretty well.
Sleepy Hollow: Eggs
A last minute request with no time to run fake branding past clearance, this just says "All your eggs in one basket" -- a common idiom that had no trouble with clearance, but looks at a glance to be properly branded.
Sleepy Hollow: Insecticide
Spray can of insecticide.
Notorious: Passport
Highly detailed passport. I made the entire book: all pages.
Survivor's Remorse - Plantation Tri-Fold
Every brochure I make has full text and photos on both sides, insuring that they can always be opened and used in close-up if needed.