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Grim Reaper Lockout screen

In Macgyver S04E09 a government mainframe gets infiltrated by a mysterious hacker who’s only calling card is a sinister grim reaper figure wagging its finger. They wanted the artwork to look like an old NES game so I looked up the classic NES color palette and used that for the animation. I also was careful to use the NES’ real screen resolution to lend a little extra authenticity

 

Here’s the final version with the animation. Note each frame of the hand wagging actually had to be custom made to as the resolution was too low to simply rotate the hand in photoshop.

Here’s an early version where it was a skull, which they later changed to a plague mask to make it more interesting and unique:

 

Here’s how it appeared in the episode. Spooky!


The Shiva Weapon – Concept and Design

I was lucky enough to get to do the design concept for the “SHIVA” weapon, which was features and used heavily throughout the first half of MacGyver Season 4. It was a fictional weapon designed by Nicola Tesla himself, designed as a super-weapon that could stop war. The idea was that it was some kind of turret gun/tesla coil mashup so I ran with those ideas to make some interesting shapes that would look cool and intricate from various angles and got the concept together in about a day. Shout out to Katie Wheelock for creating the sketchup model/construction drawings and designing the control panel! Also shout out to the amazing construction team on Macgyver for building the thing, which included coiling copper wires around tubes for hours. Thanks a ton!

 


Artemis Jayne Product Box

The producers wanted something that recalled the Drew Struzen-esque movie posters from the eighties, especially those inspired by Riply from the film Alien. I had to create a fictional strong female character for an imaginary film. unfortuantely we only had a day to finalize the artwork, so there was a bit of a scramble, but the end result turned out great and was highly featured!


 


MacGyver Products and Props

As one might imagine, Macgyver, Season 4 was absolutely loaded with fictional products that needed custom skins. Here’s a selection of some of them.


Bartop Arcade Cabinet

After 8 years these years I finally finished my Bartop arcade-cab I designed! The limiting factor when I first cut the wood for this project is that some of the parts were too intricate to hand-cut easily, but I finally has a way to do them when I bought my Shapeoko 3 XXL CNC machine. This build has over 16 CNC parts.

All-original design features hand-rotated rotating monitor. It plays over 2000 arcade games!

Here’s my original Sketchup design: http://www.paulfilmart.com/portfolio/bartop-arcade-cabinet-personal-project/


Blue Post Neon BBQ Sign

Some outdoor signage I designed for our Blue Post BBQ location in Tammy. Melissa McCarthy ended up keeping the Neon sign, because it looked pretty nifty.


Newspapers – various

Over the years I’ve done loads of news papers and inserts for various shows. As we move into the modern world, newspapers have become less and less frequent, but for vintage or period pieces, newspapers are ubiquitous.


Sleepy Hollow Map

A Vintage-style map of the Town of Sleepy Hollow for the second season of Sleepy Hollow. Used as a foundation for a model as well as for set decoration and reference throughout the show. Had hundreds of buildings for detail and texture.

Some detail Shots:

Here’s the final Map:

Original map size was larger as pictured below:


Fictional Book Covers

Here are an assortment of Fictional Book covers I made for various shows. Some were Props, Some were background for Set Dec.

 


Mr. Friendly’s Frosteeez

For Mr Mercedes we had to design a creepy ice cream truck for one of our characters. I got to design a mascot and layout all the different brands and types of ice cream, many of which were real, some were original.