National Design Portfolio Review

Exciting news!

I've been selected to represent UCLA at the National Design Portfolio Review in New York City on May 28-29th. It's essentially a chance for graduating MFA students in costume, scenic, and lighting design to network with working professionals and to exhibit their work. Students from all over the country will be coming to present, so it should be an exciting glimpse into what other students around the US have been working on. I'm really excited to have the chance to participate, and anyone in NYC should definitely come by and check it out if you get a chance!

Now to get working on that portfolio..

Wrapped!

Just wrapped tonight on another AFI short, "The Great Commission," about a bible salesman in the 1950s. I'll update the film section later with some pics!

Now that that's over with, it's time to fully focus on my thesis project 100%! It's called The Incredible and Sad Tale of the Innocent Erendira and her Heartless Grandmother, based on the novella of the same name by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's an original adaptation, written by my director, Monica Payne. Very exciting to be working on something new and original, but it's also based upon an author whose work provides a lot of wonderful things to draw from. We got signed off on the designs last week, and I love the direction we've settled on. It's kind of a surrealist steampunk hybrid of modern and victorian elements with a very tight color palette. Here's a sneak peek at some of the designs:

Film update!

Updated the film section of my portfolio! Added photos two new films: Lil John, an AFI short, and Silk, Sugar, and Shadows, a UCLA short. Lil John is being screened this Friday, excited to see it completed!

Enjoy the pictures!

La Clemenze di Tito

Taking a mini break from doing alterations on the film I'm working on.. thought I'd share some of my final costume renderings from the opera designed for class this quarter. We were designing La Clemenze di Tito, an Italian opera seria written by Mozart in the late 18th century. I bumped my version forward a bit to around 1810-1815, and did a very stylized interpretation of Neoclassical revivalism. I also had to design the set and lights, which was a challenge to say the least, having no experience with either! Anyway, hope you enjoy the renderings! Now back to work for me..

Silver Gardens Trailer!

The trailer for Silver Gardens was released tonight! Take a peek!

New navigation system!

A quick note to mention that I installed a swanky new mouseover viewing system on the portfolio pages! Instead of clicking on each thumbnail, just mouseover each one you want to view and it will appear to the left! Let me know if there's anything not working properly and I'll fix it. :)

Portfolio updates include new photos of Copenhagen, and the trailer for Honest Cheat!

Copenhagen photos

Finally got photos of Copenhagen from the photographer this week! They came out really great, I'm very pleased with how these will look in my portfolio!

Enjoy!