DETEKTIVE THUMB | Preston King

A collection of design and fabrication work I did on my senior thesis, Detektive Thumb and The Infinity House. My roles on the film included: Art Director, designer, story board artist, Lead set and prop fabricator and set dresser.

THE SETS

MAZE ROOM

The Maze Room was the first set I designed and built for the project. It was designed to be symmetrical, and had 7 seperate interlocking pieces. This fit a theme of the film, while also being functional for our tight deadline. Up to three shots could go off at a time in different setups.

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Mock up Process

Preliminary shots decided in mock up

Set wall carpentry

Mdf Walls with Birch bracing

8 feet of Maze wallpaper

Color testing

Filling in empty spaces in wallpaper

Two maze walls symmetry

Maze wall process

Door model process

Working door with miniature hinges

Set 90% finished

Library filing cabinet design

Cabinet pieces

Assembly process

Assembly pre paint

Final desk

Chair designs

Chair assembly

assembled chair ready for molding

chair pieces ready for silicone pouring

Molding process

Molded in plastic and assembled ready for paint

BIG HAND ROOM

The Big Hand Room was designed to allow for a pixilated hand along with our 12 inch puppet

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THE DOOR HALL

The Door Hall was the first big illusion set I designed for Thumb. The design was pretty popular in

90s music videos and I wanted to figure out how it works! During the mock up phase I found that the distance between the walls related to the size of the doors. This was set wound up being the longest set of the film measuring in at just over six feet. It was also one of the only sets built during quar

THE MIRROR ROOM

The mirror room was inspired by the funhouse scene in Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai.

The effect was achieved with two separate walls of regular mirror and one two way mirror that the camera would go behind under a blackout curtain.

THE PROPS

Note Prop Fabrication

The Note Prop was an animatable folded paper prop. I used three replacement models made from paper and cinquefoil to keep it's shape, twisted 24 gauge was used to rig the prop off the hands.