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Real models for live action movies! 
A good art department saves a production a lot of money and will make the film easier on the eyes, which in turn will bring in more profit.  Models save the art-dept time and money, they can be used by everyone intuitively.  Models are used by art directors, production designers, directors, set builders etc...   You just never know what you have, until you have a physical 3d model in front of you.  When you're making sets that will cost millions, it can really count.  The following  pictures are of art department models I've worked on.  Some of them are based or partially based  on drawn plans and some of them are designed and rendered from scratch.
TIMELINE (Paramount Pictures)
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An explosion aftermath study on a medieval armory.  It never got built as a set.  
Tom Sanders (Visual Consultant) supervised all the model designs and built quite a few things as well.
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The time machine.  Complete with swiveling half-way mirrors. 1" scale.  "Timeline",  Paramount Pictures.
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
The castle as it was in the background and it's ruin in current times in the foreground.
SECRET WINDOW (Sony Pictures)
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A hybrid mock-up and concept model for the cabin in "Secret Window".   Lighting, terrain, backdrop, shooting platform, size etc were figured out via this model. The special 40ft high backdrop was going to be very expensive($$$), so figuring out the exact dimensions was essential. Figuring out the size of the terrain and the hight of cabin was also crucial because it meant the smallest studio space possible could be rented. Lots of building and functionality bugs in the design were also caught in time.
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
MUMMY III (Universal Pictures)
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Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
A concept model for the "Great Wall under construction" for the MUMMY III.  I had a couple of chicken scratches and some oral directions from the production designer to work with for this one.   The set was built in Mongolia... or China using only this model as reference.
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Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
A 1/24 model of a cave that was started by fellow model-makers/sculptors.  After finishing the design, the model was 3d scanned and digitized.  Then set designers turned that into 2d drawings that set builders could use to build the 1/1 set.
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
A temple gateway.  Mummy III.
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
An avalanche aftermath designed quickly with aluminum foil (ended up looking nothing like this in the film).
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
The Fountain (Warner Brothers)
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This is the model in its current state as it stands in the production designers living room (James Chinland). It's in pretty bad shape and missing a lot of detail, but he was kind enough to send me pictures after so many years! This is the final version of the tree that I worked on and what the tree in the movie was based on.
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I was called to work on the final concept model of the dying spaceship tree for a brief period. The following are pictures of the first version worked on by Ronny Gosselin, since I was not smart enough to take any pictures of the final concept model I worked on. 
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Movies model concept art department film production miniatures set mummy timeline Model Making maquette design
The miniature version based on the concept model and made by Greg M Boettcher as seen on Coroflot.
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James Chinland in the foreground. These sets were based on the models we made, but were not made by us. 
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