Ender's Game

In 2012, I was a member of the sculpting team that worked for set construction on Ender's Game.
After the Lead Sculptor and the Art Dept established the language of the Formic architecture, the rest of the sculptors ran with it. The look was a combination of organic bone shapes and stretched taffy.
Despite very tight deadlines, we got to create some really cool foam work and the rest of the trades brought it all together for some amazing looking sets.

SPOILER ALERT!!
The sets we were part of building appear in the final act of the film. If you haven't seen Ender's Game yet, you might want to return after you have.

This is the finished set, lit and painted.

The following are some in-process photos. 

The alien walls were sculpted out of polystyrene in sections, then installed on the stage and finished.

Plaster and paint came next.

Ender's quarters

There was no scale model to work from so this section just evolved as I was sculpting it.

Don't want to spoil anything by explained what this is.

And finally, under the section of something you will never seen on the screen, this was a background filler piece I did so you wouldn't see through one of the holes on the set.

It's my "Bones meet Art Nouveau" sculpt.

2013 Update

Wow, it’s been quite awhile since my last update.

From the summer of 2012 through 2013, I attempted to stay in Los Angeles to work locally sculpting for set construction. To my dismay, there was little to no work to be had. They rarely make big movies in LA anymore and it’s really a shame that such a storied tradition of working in the Movie Industry of Hollywood is now non-existent to barely limping along.

With my union benefits on the verge of being cancelled, I took a location job in New Orleans on Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes that lasted 2.5 weeks. Once back in Los Angeles, work started popping up in the summer of 2013, but were all short term. Anywhere from 2 days to 3 weeks. During those summer months, I sculpted on Captain America; Winter Soldier, Interstellar, Thor: Dark World reshoots and the TV show Raising Hope.

Everything is still thriving in the illustration world of Skulboy Designs. Disc Golf designed custom stamps for Discovering The World, Disc Nation and Disc Golf Black Market for Latitude 64, MVP and Legacy Discs molds have been very popular.  For the non-Disc Golf crowd, I’ve been producing skull inspired artwork and putting it on products from phone cases to aprons available at Zazzle and Cafe Press.