Dani’s SketchBook

[3DxJFD]

Love Boat?

[Danimaupin]

Anything goes. I’m trying to convince the director to go for something more static so I don’t have to build as many moving units.

[3DxJFD]

Ah, Gilligan’s Island.

[Danimaupin]

@3DxJFD

Ah, Gilligan’s Island.

I did that about 16 years ago and to this day it is still one of my favorite set designs.

[Danimaupin]

Mwah ha ha ha! /Evil laugh.

My minions cannot extrapolate scale, and my printer is broken.

[Danimaupin]

The cruise ship stage set launches tomorrow, and then we have 4 days to finish it.

Some VERY basic note sheets for my minions.

[Danimaupin]

4 hours later….

[Danimaupin]

Here we have a total of 12 hours work.

[Danimaupin]

8 more hours! 16 left until the deadline.

[Anssi]

@Danimaupin

Here we have a total of 12 hours work.

Kudos to your team! I would use at least the 12 hours to only scratching my head and after that to explore other procrastination methods.

[Danimaupin]

@Anssi

Kudos to your team!

They’re all brand new amateurs this year (three of them) and they’re doing so well! I have never, in 20 years of doing this, had such good luck with minions.

And this theatre is absolutely mental when it comes to time frame and deadlines. The amount of planning and pre-build required for a four day build from scratch is a fun mental exercise for me, but we do about 16 shows in 5 months with overlap and such… We’re ten shows in right now and I’m starting to hit my usual late summer mental breakdown. Ha!

[Danimaupin]

We worked right up until the actors started invading. 8 more hours down, 8 left to go. I’m definitely feeling the stress on this one.

We did two little estate rooms that push in from the sides and a lot of fiddly things with the railings and barn doors under the decking, etc.

[Danimaupin]

And… We cheated. 9 hours. Done. Finished. The show opened fifteen minutes ago.

[Danimaupin]

I’ve missed two shows between the last one and this one (health and hospital blah blah blah) but here is the bare bones for the next set going up. Should be pretty boring as far as construction goes.

[Danimaupin]

Here are the two sets that the minions put up with only minimal input from me. I will say that while I don’t really recommend “ you can use SketchUp for iPad easily while hospitalized “ as a selling point, it’s very very true.

And some of the things I was able to upload for them when they had questions.

[Danimaupin]

Draw over on a SketchUp model for a play I’m designing in central California. This is where iPad really works for me.

[Danimaupin]

[Danimaupin]

[3DxJFD]

So just, like, awesome from presentation to delivery was the plan?

[Danimaupin]

@3DxJFD

just, like, awesome from presentation to delivery was the plan?

The plan was apparently to make the lighting guy hate me, haha.