{"id":5939,"date":"2012-07-25T21:17:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T04:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2017-11-11T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T07:35:20","slug":"san-diego-comic-con-2012-interview-with-production-designer-greg-aronowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/2012\/07\/25\/san-diego-comic-con-2012-interview-with-production-designer-greg-aronowitz\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Comic-Con 2012: Interview with Production Designer Greg Aronowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Hey Convention Goers,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">While we were at Comic-Con, we had the chance to sit down with production designer and director extraordinaire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregaronowitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greg Aronowitz<\/a>. Though you may not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/cci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5964 alignright\" title=\"Comic-Con banner logo blue - Click to learn more at the official web site!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ComicCon-Logo-Blue-259.jpg\" alt=\"Comic-Con banner logo blue - Click to learn more at the official web site!\" width=\"259\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ComicCon-Logo-Blue-259.jpg 259w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ComicCon-Logo-Blue-259-197x192.jpg 197w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ComicCon-Logo-Blue-259-246x240.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>recognize his name, you are sure to know his work if you\u2019ve been watching television, films, or webseries over the last 25 years. As a special effects artist and design specialist, he\u2019s worked on everything from big budget movies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099348\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dances with Wolves<\/a>, <a href=\" http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Terminator 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0162222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Castaway<\/a>, and <a href=\" http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120815\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saving Private Ryan<\/a>), to our favorite web series, (<a href=\" http:\/\/www.watchtheguild.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guild<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/5minutehour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Lewis 5 Minute Comedy Hour<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperForceHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Save the Supers<\/a>). Greg has become the \u201cgo to guy\u201d for production design in the web world. In addition to his film\/web series work, Greg has partnered with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zydeco Studios<\/a> to bring us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floppets<\/a>, a collection of cool characters you can attach to anything. Greg chatted with us about Floppets, webseries and what it takes to be a production designer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: So Greg, can you tell us how you got involved with Floppets?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: Two of my very dear friends Ilyse and Rich live in Chicago. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/braininstorm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilyse<\/a> is a teacher, she works with special needs children and she wanted to create some kind of product that she could give them as a reward for good grades. But in schools they try to not have trading cards, and they don&#8217;t want any kind of distraction, so she wanted to come up with some kind of collectible tradable thing that they could bring in but wouldn&#8217;t necessarily take all their attention. She was on summer break at a beach and she saw the kids running around with their flip flops and she thought, well what if I make some kind of little thing that can attach to that (flip flop), and that&#8217;s where Floppets came from. They&#8217;re like flip flop pets. She talked to Rich about it, who is an engineer, and they came up with the Velcro tether and the little PVC character. Then they called me, and said they wanted to do all these things but we needed to design some stuff and I created a bunch of characters for them and I said, you know what these things are so awesome I think we can take it to the next level and go to known brands and licensing. We are a really small company so we didn&#8217;t want to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disney<\/a> or go to <a href=\" http:\/\/marvel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel<\/a> but I said you know what let me call some of my friends that have really cool things and let&#8217;s start there. So, we called <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/feliciaday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia Day<\/a> and we got The Guild and I called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0734473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rod Roddenberry<\/a> and got<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roddenberry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Star Trek<\/a> and we just started building from there. Now we have almost 100 different designs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRachelleSmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5945\" title=\"Aronowitz- Greg with Floppets\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Greg-with-Floppets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Greg-with-Floppets.jpg 427w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Greg-with-Floppets-128x192.jpg 128w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Greg-with-Floppets-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Greg-with-Floppets-240x360.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: Were The Guild Floppets the first licensed Floppets?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: No. I really like my character <a href=\" http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0756673\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labou<\/a> from the movie I directed, that you can get on DVD from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mgm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MGM<\/a>. So I thought let&#8217;s try to see how we work with the factories and the design process doing a character that I control. Because that&#8217;s the hardest thing of licensing, trying to produce a product that the owner of the brand really likes and with every kind of manufacturing process there is limitations. So I said, let me do my own character and see if I can get it to my quality and then I&#8217;ll feel more secure with asking other people if I can make their products. So we did Labou and we did three different styles and it came out really well. So the next person I called was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/feliciaday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Felicia<\/a> and she really liked it for the shows because it could be a two dollar or four dollar item, and you know when you have the posters, the T-shirts, the comic books, and the DVDs everything is like 20 dollars. So, you know, if a fan wants five things that&#8217;s like 100 bucks.\u00a0 So we did do a full set of The Guild, we do all 6 characters and then the shield, and we can sell that for 20 bucks, so you get so much more. She (Felicia) was like, yeah let&#8217;s do it, and I think they came out pretty cool.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5949\" title=\"Aronowitz-TheGuild Floppets\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-TheGuild-Floppets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-TheGuild-Floppets.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-TheGuild-Floppets-256x144.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-TheGuild-Floppets-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-TheGuild-Floppets-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: Then you did the Star Trek ones?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: And then I was talking to Rod Roddenberry. Rod is the son of Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, and he still owns part of the brand and is allowed to manufacture and sell original props and shirts. We were having a conversation and I said that I started this new company with friends call Floppets. We&#8217;re making these cool little things and he was like you totally need to do Star Trek Floppets and I was like, yes I totally do! He set up a deal where we actually manufacture those for Roddenberry and we did series one, it&#8217;s premiering here in at Comic-Con. We have the Enterprise, the Enterprise D, the Star Trek logo, an original series phaser, the Orion slave girl, a Klingon warrior, the IDIC symbol, and the command logo, so there&#8217;s a bunch of different ones and at the shows we have an exclusive that\u2019s a blue command symbol. So if you buy all nine, you get that tenth one. We&#8217;ll be at the Vegas Star Trek show, we&#8217;ll have them there and then we\u2019re going to do series two and on series two we\u2019re just basing it on feedback from people right away. They&#8217;re just like where are the Borg, where is the Klingon symbol, they want the Gorn. Rod right off the bat wanted to do like 42 and I was like, OK. He sent me this list of 42 characters he wants to do so we&#8217;re just trying to figure out in groups of 9 which ones they&#8217;ll be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5950\" title=\"Aronowitz- StarTrek Floppets\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-StarTrek-Floppets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-StarTrek-Floppets.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-StarTrek-Floppets-256x118.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-StarTrek-Floppets-320x147.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-StarTrek-Floppets-480x221.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: Is there one that you really wanted to do yourself?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: Wow I&#8217;m a Sci-Fi\/horror (fan). I want to do them all, I want to do a Floppet of every single thing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: We see you did one for <a href=\"http:\/\/teamunicornftw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team Unicorn<\/a>\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRachelleSmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5952\" title=\"Aronowitz-Team Unicorn Floppet\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Team-Unicorn-Floppet-144x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Team-Unicorn-Floppet-144x192.jpg 144w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Team-Unicorn-Floppet-180x240.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Team-Unicorn-Floppet-270x360.jpg 270w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Team-Unicorn-Floppet.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/a>Greg: I did Team Unicorn because they are friends and they are lovely and, you know, I strongly believe in their movement. They are not just hot girls cosplaying for attention. They are saying that everyone has the right to be into things and trying to break the lines of geeks and jocks and mean girls, and they are bona fide Sci-Fi anime gamer girls. They\u2019re just trying to encourage all other women out there to be proud of what you are into no matter what anybody says. I wanted to help promote that and I thought that if we had something we could give away to everybody we see here at the show that&#8217;s coming out and showing off their geek pride (it would be great), so we did the Team Unicorn logo.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: Can you tell us a little bit about the design process? Once you have an idea do you sketch it out and then show it to Rod and say do you like this? How do you go about it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: You know right now I&#8217;m spoiled and I&#8217;m in for a rude awakening as we grow into more official licensing with companies who don&#8217;t even know who I am, because they&#8217;re going to want all of these processes. But I did it with a phone call like, hey Felicia (would you like The Guild to have their own Floppets) and she&#8217;s like oh my god that would be so great. So, I took the art from the opening animation and I just made them. We shipped in a couple 1000 of them and I was like, hey come check these out and she was like I love them. It doesn&#8217;t work that way for real. For real I have to do multiple concepts. They\u2019ll have to pick them, it has to go through a series of approvals, they\u2019ll make changes, then we&#8217;ll have to do prototypes and have the prototypes approved, and then we&#8217;ll have to have line samples. It will be a slightly longer process. Even with Star Trek, Rod and the guys that run the whole marketing and manufacturing for Roddenberry Entertainment were like yeah we totally trust you and we know that you are such a hardcore fan that you probably have higher standards than we would ever even expect. So I was allowed to just run with it and I showed it to him the first time Wednesday when we started the show. I said, look they&#8217;re here! The Star Trek ones are one of the coolest ones we&#8217;ve made so far.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: So what&#8217;s next? Where would you like to go with it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: Well let&#8217;s see, I mean I dreamed the dream. I&#8217;m all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars<\/a>, we\u2019re sitting in a Star Trek booth right now so I might get just randomly punched, but I&#8217;m all about Star Wars so I dreamed the dream of doing Star Wars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006q2x0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doctor Who<\/a>, I would love Marvel, I would love Disney. I mean Disney is infinite;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.floppets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6118\" title=\"floppetslogo\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/floppetslogo2-320x85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/floppetslogo2-320x85.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/floppetslogo2-256x68.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/floppetslogo2.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a> we could do Floppets (forever), I don&#8217;t even have enough\u00a0life in me left. It could continue on, my children\u2019s children could still be making different characters for Disney Floppets, that would be the dream. We&#8217;re also creating a lot of our own original products. We have our own line of munchkin monsters they are these cute little alien things. We have a new line coming out in the fall called FlopJocks. They&#8217;re all sports, they\u2019re angry footballs and soccer balls and every kind of ball in sports with these angry faces. We&#8217;re also doing pom poms. We&#8217;re trying to also be non-exclusive we&#8217;re doing (them) for girls and guys and everybody. There is a Floppet for everybody.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: So Floppets are real versatile, what is your favorite thing to do with one?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: My favorite thing to do with them personally is to wrangle my data cables with them so when I have my iPhone and my iPod, one million Apple devices and one million cables, I have a Floppet that stays on there permanently as a marker. Because everyone in my shop has apple stuff, so they know that if there&#8217;s a Labou Floppet on it then it&#8217;s mine. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Red5Iam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red 5<\/a> has her Codex Floppet and everyone has a different character so you know that that cord is theirs. Then when you wrap them up you can use the velcro to hold it (the cord) together. I don&#8217;t necessarily wear them, like at the show I have them on like jewelry, I&#8217;m not that kind of a jewelry guy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRachelleSmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5958\" title=\"Aronowitz-Floppets display\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Floppets-display.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Floppets-display.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Floppets-display-256x170.jpg 256w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Floppets-display-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Aronowitz-Floppets-display-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: So what else do you do with Team Unicorn?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: With Team Unicorn I have designed a few of their videos. I did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QvkpBNOnpYo&amp;feature=relmfu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alien Beach Crashers<\/a> video. I worked on the Christmas Special, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0UqEhUm2B_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Very Zombie Holiday<\/a>. I made a bunch of signage and stuff for that. \u00a0I was supposed to have an exclusive Team Unicorn piece of artwork here for the show but I didn&#8217;t get it done in time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: What other recent projects have you worked on?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: Well there&#8217;s Save the Supers, which I&#8217;m super proud of, that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandeepparikh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sandeep Parikh<\/a> from The Guild created, and asked me to executive produce and design. You know, it was rough, basically we were talking about it and I said you realize that right now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0923736\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joss Whedon<\/a> is home throwing up his guts because he can&#8217;t get the<a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/avengers_movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Avengers<\/a> perfect and he only has a budget of 200 million dollars. We&#8217;re essentially trying to do the exact same thing for like a few grand, and we have this story about six superheroes and a hall of justice and all these villains and all these custom made props. But I love the challenge because within the web world the creative minds are so amazing. They joke that I can&#8217;t say no, but I can&#8217;t say no because the ideas are so perfect. I&#8217;m always like, well if I don&#8217;t help that&#8217;s going to be the greatest thing people have ever seen and I won&#8217;t have been there and that would be terrible. So I tried to do as much as possible. Save the Supers premiered this week and it is awesome. I just did a thing with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanbecker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Becker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffylew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeff Lewis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=64Us7jpBg9Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chatroom of Solitude<\/a>, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0498278\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stan Lee&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/worldofheroes?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>. It&#8217;s basically about a chat room for superheroes and supervillains. They were working on the deal and it&#8217;s taking a little while as it always does, but then the week before Comic-Con they were like, you know what we really want a trailer. And everything was a go, so they called me up and they were like, This is crazy, it\u2019s Friday but can we make supervillain costumes and sets for Sunday night? So they shot it at the barnyard. We did all four characters at one time with live cameras on everybody. I built these little vignettes and it&#8217;s amazing. I have to give it to Sean (Becker) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2300676\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Darnell<\/a>, who shoots The Guild, because they made these little 4 by 4 sets that were all next to each other look like four completely different worlds. I mean I feel like with the creativity that&#8217;s behind these guys I could do anything and it will be amazing, so it gives me so much more freedom (than non-web work). It&#8217;s been pretty awesome. And then the Jeff Lewis 5 Minute Comedy Hour, I production designed the season and it&#8217;s insane the amount of stuff that&#8217;s going on. I did season 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/husbandstheseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Husbands<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaneEspenson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jane Espenson<\/a>. It\u2019s such a good show, it&#8217;s a little out of my wheelhouse in terms of, I&#8217;m open to anything, but people don&#8217;t usually call me for drama or straight comedy. But because it&#8217;s Jane (I did it). They live in this house and they&#8217;re just like two eccentric celebrities and so I can&#8217;t really say the super crazy things I did because it&#8217;s not out yet, but there&#8217;s just a lot of crazy interior design. Mostly what I do is pull out my bag of tricks, again it\u2019s low budget. Jane and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoCheeksGo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheeks<\/a> pay for that show themselves\u00a0and the quality is like what it should be for an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108778\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friends<\/a> or like an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1135300\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dollhouse<\/a>, but the budget is like 1 \/100th of it. My job is to make it look as good as a network show without having the money and the resources, so it&#8217;s just like working with the DP (Director of Photography) and the director to creatively figure out how to fill all of the space without the tens of thousands of dollars we\u2019d normally have. And (I worked on) <a href=\"http:\/\/freshhellseries.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Hell<\/a> which is wrapping up with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrentSpiner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brent Spiner<\/a>. I love the whole web world. When I would work on the big shows it&#8217;s like you meet different celebrities and you have to work with them, I did make-up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000096\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gillian Anderson<\/a> for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0106179\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> X-files<\/a>, and you get to hang out with them. But the web world really is, like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethGreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seth Green<\/a> told me that he thinks it&#8217;s like summer camp, we are all just buddies hanging out trying to do something and it&#8217;s true. For instance on The Guild, we shot a lot of that at my house at the studio in the barnyard so when Stan Lee gets kidnapped and is in the basement, that&#8217;s my workshop. So it\u2019s like I have freaking Stan Lee in my workshop! When I did Fresh Hell, Brent Spiner was filming there and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/levarburton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Levar Burton<\/a> came into the house. You know like every childhood dream I could ever imagine. All the people that would come over, it&#8217;s just super bizarre. I take a picture of every celebrity that comes to my house with my dog Art, so he has this whole portfolio. Also, I directed an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbyakid.geekandsundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Written by a Kid<\/a> for<a href=\"http:\/\/geekandsundry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Geek &amp; Sundry<\/a> so that&#8217;s coming out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRachelleSmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6116\" title=\"Aronowitz- Brent Spiner\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_0160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_0160.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_0160-235x192.jpg 235w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_0160-294x240.jpg 294w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_0160-442x360.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: How many people do you have working with you?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: It&#8217;s usually just me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Red5Iam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red 5<\/a>. Red 5 was an intern for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1866426\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dragon Age<\/a>. She applied to the The Guild intern thing and she came in and did such a good job on the show that I hired her and now she is my art director. So in the past 2 years that she&#8217;s been there she&#8217;s done like 100 shows with me so her resume went from nothing and trying to get an internship to now working on all of these projects. I have this guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2360469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mazin<\/a> who does a lot of the computer graphics. He did a lot of the stuff for the guild hall at the end of season four. And then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2403226\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amish<\/a>, he builds a lot of stuff. He help me build the Voltron lion for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexalbrecht\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alex Albrecht\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1g6QJ5TfA7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voltron: The End<\/a>. It did pretty good. Actually the guys from Voltron said that that video did more for the brand in a couple weeks than they had been able to do in years and it brought a lot of attention to it again. We built a big model of one of the Voltron lions. Amish did that and does a lot of the after effects and he did a lot of the blimp effects in Guild season 5. We all work together on the Floppets. Red does the tag design and Amish does the vector art. I&#8217;ll come up with the concept of each one and draw it out and we do it in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/illustrator.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Illustrator<\/a>. We create a vector art so the factories can work with it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">WHR: So if there was someone reading our article and they decided they want to be you when they grow up what would be their path be to becoming a prop master?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">Greg: If you want to be me the first thing is you have to really love art and love movies. That was the thing, I am worthless to society. I cannot do <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrRachelleSmith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6123\" title=\"Aronowitz- Greg \" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_06021-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_06021-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_06021-192x192.jpg 192w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_06021-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_06021.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>anything else but the art I do for film. I&#8217;m an artist in films. You have to really just love art and have it consume you and love movies. If you want to be a prop master or a production designer or a director, you just have to absorb all of that information. It&#8217;s better than any film school, just watching every movie you possibly can and having those in the back of your mind as preexisting storyboards for how you want to do things, and then from there your originality grows. But the biggest thing you can do is try to work with somebody that&#8217;s already doing it. It doesn&#8217;t have to be like a Hollywood professional it could be like in school and some shops. But try to learn the trade. You can&#8217;t really go to a school and learn all of this stuff you have to be able to do it and you have to be willing to make the mistakes and learn from your mistakes and be prepared for long, long hours because it never ever ends. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\">We&#8217;d like to thank Greg for taking the time out of his busy Comic-Con schedule to talk with us. If you&#8217;d like to keep up with Greg and his latest exploits, you can visit his website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/barnyardfx.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/barnyardfx.blogspot.com\/<\/a> or chat with him on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregaronowitz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregaronowitz<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Calibri'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Calibri';\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri';\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WormholeRiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-422\" title=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" src=\"http:\/\/wormholeriders.org\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WormholeRiders-New-Logo-150-Blue.jpg\" alt=\"Click to visit and follow WormholeRiders News Agency on Twitter!\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> We hope you have enjoyed this article. 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