Will Trent Pilot - Set Design / Illustration - Production Designer Adam Davis

Key Shot Bull Pen The Atlanta PD and GBI sets are both housed inside a great old brick warehouse building. The APD sets are meant to give a sort of gritty retro feeling, In stark contrast to the GBI which is modern and clean.

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Promo Video

Schematics and design model views,
These design models were pretty huge and full of details, accurately depicting the "as built" condition of the siteas well as what would be built...

Schematics and design model views,
My work was handed off in the end to a team of set designers who produced the shop drawings needed to build the set pieces. Accuracy is important so that the work can easily be put into that process...

Schematics and design model views

APD-BullPen concepts

APD - Captains Office

APD - interrogation Room

This is some of the work I did for the ABC series Will Trent Pilot. I did this work directly for Adam Davis ( production Designer ) and Matthew Carey ( Art Director ).

At first the production was looking simply for a set designer and they contacted me to come in and talk. Adam quickly realized I could help him much more as a senior illustrator designing the spaces and establishing look and feel. which is what my actual role for film projects has primarily been. Because this was a pilot and therefore had budget constraints on building sets, much of the production was shot on exising locations with heavy redesign.

The first task I set upon was to take the basic massing models of the chosen set areas and flesh them out with details and texture. I then proceeded to add more and more levels of detail based on Adams design intent and working in set pieces the production had available to them. At the end I produced a myriad of design views and illustrations...

This is very much the same process I use for Television Commercials but on a much greater scale and scope. Over a month and a half, 6 to 7 days a week, I did multiple takes on 5 of the environments within the Pilot episode, 3 of which are central to the storyline of the series. Wills House, The Atlanta PD and Georgia Bureau of Investigation. A huge amount of work went into this project and Im proud to say the Pilot was well received and picked up so I guess it was all worth it...