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This image was part of my design for a Stage musical:"The Dance of the Vampires" adapted and directed by Roman Polanski from his movie of the same name and currently playing in Berlin. The story tells of people wandering through a vast Gothic mountain castle. The
image was created in Photoshop with smoke fx from the Eye Candy plug in ]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:29:55 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444871

Another scene from Polanski's "Vampires". The Gothic Ballroom mirrors reflect the Ballroom and the inhabited paintings of the ancestors on the opposite wall. This image was made in Photoshop with figures & Spiral Stairs in Cinema 4d. The show "The Dance of the Vampires" is currently running in Berlin.]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:21:09 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/549893

2 more scenes from Roman Polanski's Stage musical ;"The "Dance of The Vampires," as it was re-staged in Hamburg Germany. The upper image is the Concept artwork for The Act 2 "Haunted Bedroom", where the 4 poster bed is invaded from underneath by nightmare dancers, who use the bed as a wild climbing frame. The lower image shows the final collapse and destruction of the Vampire's Castle, which was a mix of projected 3D video animation and physical scenery. The figure
bottom left (me), was there for scale only. The show is currently
playing in Berlin.The collapse was modeled and animated in c4d,
then edited in After Effects.]]> Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:04:17 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/465029

2 Concept images for a Theatre piece "The Big Picnic" about Trench warfare on the western front in World War 1. The show was staged in the Engine Shed of the Harland & Wolff
shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland, this was where the Engines for the Titanic were built in 1911. The show was a "Promenade" staging, where the audience were led on foot through the scenes on the battlefield. The female figure riding on the bridge crane, was my interpretation of the "Angel of Mons", one of the many visions seen in the skies over the trenches by thousands of soldiers, on both sides, during the battles. In our show she became the Angel of Death, claiming the souls of the dead]]> Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:04:10 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/540332

2 frames from the storyboard of a stage play called "The Giant". The play tells of Michaelangelo carving his statue of David, in
a stonemasons yard, in Florence in 1503. The men are just the default figures from C4d, as they will be played by live actors,dressed in Renaissance costume which I will design later. The block of simulated marble has to be gradually cut away over several scenes to reveal the Figure of David within. I have designed a spiral scaffold that can allow us to hide the block in order to remove various chunks of marble between scenes. The play, presented by the Royal Shakespeare Co. opens in London in November and then tours.]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:16:02 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444811

This was from a projected sequence of a girl's arrival in foggy 1870 London in the Stage musical "The Woman in White". The show mixed projected animated CGI Characters with a live cast of 35 actors. The style of the lighting and fog was meant to evoke the paintings of the 19th C. landscape Artist: Atkinson Grimshaw who specialized in "Nocturnes"
Modelled and textured in Cinema 4D based on my own location photographs and measurements plus old street maps which were all resized and combined in Photoshop ]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:28:14 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/465549

Some frames from a sequence in the stage musical "The Woman in White", which follows 2 lovers searching for each other in the mean streets of 1870s London. The 2nd image down shows the Adelphi Tunnels, a maze of wine vaults under the Strand, here Dickens wandered as a child when he worked nearby at a boot blacking factory. I used them as a hangout for winos & thieves. The 2 lower images were the Exterior and Interior of a backstreet pawnbrokers shop where the portrait in the window is the vital clue in re uniting the 2 lovers. All these scenes were projected onto curved moving screens which created endless small streets around the characters. Crits Welcome.]]> Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:39:44 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/458949

In the dusty Attic of an old house we see long forgotten toys and posessions. In the middle of the floor stands a tin Zoetrope which slowly starts to spin as we approach. It is somehow posessed by something that happened 150 years ago and so draws us into its flickering image of a deserted country station in Cumberland, England in the 1860s.
The ghostly figure of a terrified woman, dressed in white, runs out of the tunnel towards us. Later, in the climactic final scene, the sudden emergence of a train from the tunnel will kill the villain and resolve the plot of this stage musical: "The Woman in White".
Modelled and animated in Cinema 4d, textured in Photoshop. edited in After Effects. ]]> Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:15:56 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/460035

This is another sequence from the stage show: The Woman in White, where the heroine is falsely locked up. I based the architecture on 19thC. prisons. The background panorama was a rotating animation of a 5 sided communal room with cell blocks leading off. The top exterior image splits in two on seperate curved video screens so revealing the barren interior. This was based on 19thC engravings.]]> Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:29:32 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/540280

A costume sketch within the set design for a Stage production of "Amadeus" which opened in London, then played Los Angeles and New York. The part of Salieri was played by David Suchet, best known for playing Poirot on TV. The set was made of half silvered mirrors sorming a mirror maze which partially refracted projected images of Roccoco interiors.]]> Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:35:24 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/448137

A Ghost Train Ride. A concept Sketch for a Dickensian theme park in London. This train is burrowing through the graves of an
old Churchyard from where we see mr Scrooge's dead partner, Jacob Marley, rising up to haunt him in "A Christmas Carol".]]> Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:48:46 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/447765

This was for a stage production in London of the Tennessee Williams play that I designed the set & costumes for. The Female figure shown is a comped in production shot of Jessica Lange who played Blanche Dubois in the show.
This was created in Photoshop ]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:37:13 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/451496

This is a section of a storyboard I did for an epic 9 hour trilogy of plays called "the Coast of Utopia" by Tom Stoppard. The whole show of 75 scenes was staged with projected CGI on 7
pivoted screens placed around a synchronized revolving stage.
The sequence shows the departure of the Anarchist Bakunin by boat on the river Neva in St Petersburg in 1848.
The venue was the National Theatre in London. I also designed the set and the costumes. The bottom 2 images are frames from the final animation. the 180 degree semi circular screen was 3048cms (100 Ft.) wide

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A Section of a very wide Panoramic image of an 1870 Casino from the stage musical: The Woman in White. This image was projected from 4 video projectors onto a 220º semi circular screen. When animated, the room rotated slowly, changing the reflections in the mirrors on the opposite walls. The gaming table was on a revolve / turntable, with 25 actors playing roulette. This gave a swirling, impressionist feel to the scene. ]]> Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:14:02 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/467283

These 2 images were part of an exhibition that I designed on the archeological site of the 1587 Rose Theatre on Bankside, London UK. The intention was to show that this area, just beyond the city limits, was a wild "red light" district, very bohemian and full of dangerous energy and ideas. This small collection of muddy, bawdy streets amazingly was the crucible of the English language for 30 years, mainly because of its Theatres & Taverns. In the lower image, "The School of Night" refers to both sexual diversions and also a secret society of writers and scientists who risked their lives to meet here in the taverns to debate Philosophy, Politics, The Church and State ]]> Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:41:23 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/447775

This was a poster for the opening of the archeological site of the 1587 Rose Theatre to the public in1999. In order to preserve the fragile pieces of timber, the site was flooded under 60cm (2'-0") of water. This gave the whole place a nice eerie feel, enhanced by the luminous green markers that locate the excavated remains of the old Theatre.The long descending shape from the central water ripple was the original front edge of the stage.The 2 men shown submerged are playwrights (L)William Shakespeare and (R) Christopher Marlowe, from contemporary portraits. Born the same year (1564),they both started writing their plays for the Rose here on this very site. ]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:23:11 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/605111

This is a comp showing the effect of overlaying a projected image into the spectator's field of view of the site of the 1587 Rose Theatre, Bankside, London . The top image shows a rendering of the site as it is, with red rope lights marking the positions of the major features of the Theatre's stage and auditorium. The remains are all under 2'-0" of water, plus 3'-0" of concrete and sand. The middle shows the composite at roughly a 50-50% mix. The bottom image shows a version of the projected image but with the C4d standard male figures standing in for our leading actors.

The triangular concrete blocks were placed there in 1989 to rest the giant girders on prior to them being raised into position. They are standing on foundations driven into the ground in 1952 for an earlier junk office block on the site of a WW2 bomb explosion which didnt damabge the theatre at all.]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:12:29 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/605100

This is a composite of 3 images showing: top- a skeletal version of the Rose Theatre partially submerged in water and sand in the Basement of the office block at Southwark, London. middle- an elevation showing the optics for the "Peppers Ghost" effect. Bottom showing the peppers ghost screen from the promenade deck of the exhibition which overlays the video image onto the spectator's view of the archeological site.

A couple of credits for details on the stage set wall (the Frons Scenae): The 4 carved torso figures were by Janis Labelle and the square columns and cornice by Mash O'Neil. these were both from an earlier collaboration (The Woman in White)]]> Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:35:48 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/445424

Collated in Photoshop from archeological evidence and Survey Drawings for the onsite exhibition in london 1999. Subsequently developed in 3D using Cinema 4D for a project to recreate the Rose in Lennox MS USA 2001]]> Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:31:26 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444820

The recreated GlobeTheatre on London's Bankside is shown set up for a performance of Shakespeare's Titus Andronnicus . The Theatre's yard was used as a Roman Gladiatorial arena. This production was staged in June 2006. I designed the set and costumes. The Sunshade or "Velarium" was part of the show's set and was based on a controversial belief that the original 1590 Globe had just such a shade or"Shadow".
The structure was modelled in Cinema 4d from the architect's plans imported from vector works and retouched in Photoshop.
The textures were made from onsite photographs

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This image was assembled in photoshop from archeological surveys made at the 1st excavation in1989 plus an Architect's plans in Vectorworks. this was used in the onsite exhibition which I designed in 1999]]> Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:48:13 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/446203

A flyby over an imaginery house in Cumberland in the North of England in 1870. The house was built in Cinema 4D from engravings of various Elizabethan houses. This was used in The stage musical "the Woman in White" and followed the 4 seasons on the estate up untill harvest time. This shows it in Midsummer. The wide panoramic format was cut into 4 seamless sections in After Effects for front projection on a semicircular screen using 4 video projectors ]]> Sun, 31 Dec 2006 20:23:08 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/445370

5 Frames from a panoramic movie travelling through a village in
Cumberland, England in 1870. This was the background to a "Hoe-Down" dance, bringing in the harvest Sheaves of corn at sunset into the church. Another scene from The Woman in White stage musical. The movie was projected onto moving screens that encircled the dancers.]]> Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:09:43 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/446164

3 Frames from a storyboard for a new prologue proposed by Jim Steinman, Composer of the music for Roman Polanski's stage musical "Dance of the Vampires". The scene was a peasant village graveyard deep in the woods of Transylvania but with one grave that really didn't belong in such a hallowed place. Created in Photoshop.
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A set of rendered images from a play called "Hitchcock Blonde"
first Staged in London then in Los Angeles and soon to open in Houston. The play investigates the theory that Hitchcock made an earlier, silent version of the notorious shower scene in "Psycho" in 1919. This design and its animations won the Olivier award for best London set design for the year 2003.
Modelled in Cinema 4D, textured in Photoshop then video edited and split between 2 projectors in After Effects.]]> Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:43:05 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444905

4 Frames from a short animation showing the sinister Blackwater house in the stage musical "The Woman in White". The house was modelled in in Cinema 4d from my own photos and some archive plans of an old Gothic monster house in Somerset England called Tyntesfield. Since 1960 it had been occupied by just 3 people The old owner and his 2 Servants]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:23:16 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/447801

In the story of the "Woman in White", The Boathouse is the place of assignation for the 3 opressed women characters, but unknown to them, this is where the Villain drowned his unwanted child!
This is a still from a movie in the show, modelled and animated in Cinema 4D textured in Photoshop and edited in After Effects]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:07:34 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444861

A panoramic projection image that used 4 projectors on a 220 degree circular screen. Physical doors in the screen allowed actors to enter through the carved walnut doors. The room references were assembled from many sources in Photoshop then modelled and lit and animated in Cinema 4d using After Effects to seamlessly divide the long panorama into 4 ]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:35:06 +0000 http://bill-d.cgsociety.org/gallery/444847

A Night Scene also from the Woman in White with a ghostly figure drifting over the Lawn. The house was modelled in Cinema 4D from 17th Century engravings of a now destroyed, country house. The trees are all Alpha maps because I think 3D trees never look real. The bottom image is of the village churchyard which is where the ghostly figue is ecaping to.]]> Wed, 27 Dec 2006 17:01:36 +0000