Set Trippin' pt. 1

These are some of my favorite shots from the 2 episodes of the National Geographic channel's new series 'Aftermath" that I worked on as a member of the art department. Over 2 months we created many sets for the show in many locations, not all of which are represented here in photos. The general plot line of an Aftermath episode is centered around some cataclysmic end of the world type of apocalyptic scenario, and what humans do to survive. I don't really care to explain any of the details here, but the photos you see below may just speak for themselves I hope. The work on the beach was definitely the most fun. the entire crew was sent up to Sandbanks Provincial Park for a week for these scenes. The link below will take you to the Aftermath pilot with which i had nothing to do. it's called 'Population Zero'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R8IkSOY9k




When our makeshift windmill was in position the wind got it spinning so fast that when we stuck a 2x4 between the blades in an attempt to stop it, it hacked the wood down like a carrot on a Cuisinart. A true hazard for any actor in the scene, so it stayed tied off.

Getting this tail section off the truck and down the trail to the beach was pretty interesting. Oh yeah and the trail was fringed with poison ivy to either side.

Getting any work done and communicating on this point was so hard because the winds did not dip below 50 km/h the whole time, just so loud and always knocking our stuff down. My face was all red and windburned by the end of it
December in July.
Quite fond of this photo.
Goat wrangler.
Special fx team on the water cannons.
i really like this shot.
Custom made emergency refugee center base camp type thing in Seneca.
The infirmary

Hyperbaric chamber at the Seneca College commercial dive school training pool. The pool has a depth of 40 feet, justifying the need for a Hyperbaric chamber. Deep enough to get the bends.

Set Trippin' pt. 2

These shots are from the second episode I worked on, shot almost entirely in Hamilton. Ont. Commuted there and back every day. Long days

Painting up this abandoned car while the on-set police officers looked on was pretty fun, felt strange.



In an attempt to be regionally correct from a graffiti standpoint I got 2 New York writers up in a set that was meant to look like the NY subway system. News1 Inkheads and Cycle BA. Tags executed in black colored hairspray that comes off with soap + water. Called streaks n' tips.

Somewhere in the Casa Loma tunnel system.

Milky Way lane

We needed a good size wall to paint one day so this was it. Sadly, Mr. Giant could not join us to re-do this one. Mike, when you come back to Toronto we will paint it again with you.





These skull photos were taken up at Jct. Joe's cottage. A wolf and a deer skull. Note the wear marks left on the posts from the wind pushing the skulls slightly causing the teeth to carve grooves in the posts.