Howard Cummings really got the best of both worlds. The two-time Emmy winner has been “Westworld’s” production designer since its second season and worked on the pilot of HBO’s period horror drama “Lovecraft Country,” which premiered in August.
“The cool thing about ‘Westworld’ and one of the reasons why I wanted to do it was because it has both — future and past,” Cummings tells Gold Derby during our Meet the Experts: TV Production Design panel (watch above). “To be able to do two projects that are really tonally different as well was great. … To go from ‘Westworld,’ super futuristic stuff, to 1950s Chicago was really a great adventure.”
Cummings, who was able to bring his “Westworld” set decorator Julie Ochipinti onto the “Lovecraft” pilot, worked with Kalina Ivanov, who designed the rest of “Lovecraft’s” first season. The pilot differs from the rest of the season in that...
“The cool thing about ‘Westworld’ and one of the reasons why I wanted to do it was because it has both — future and past,” Cummings tells Gold Derby during our Meet the Experts: TV Production Design panel (watch above). “To be able to do two projects that are really tonally different as well was great. … To go from ‘Westworld,’ super futuristic stuff, to 1950s Chicago was really a great adventure.”
Cummings, who was able to bring his “Westworld” set decorator Julie Ochipinti onto the “Lovecraft” pilot, worked with Kalina Ivanov, who designed the rest of “Lovecraft’s” first season. The pilot differs from the rest of the season in that...
- 12/14/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
“It’s a reboot, really, because we’re in a whole different world,” says Emmy-nominated Westworld production designer Howard Cummings about season 3, which drops us right inside our world –the human one– outside Delos’ robotic theme park.
And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia, Spain.
It’s a world that’s geometric, clean, green, sleek, and organized in shape — a perfect place for host bot Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to stomp on as she squares off to battle a megalomaniac Serac (Vincent Cassel) who wants control over human beings’ behaviors.
Cummings worked with Westworld VFX supervisor Jay Worth and Dutch architect Bjarke Ingels in creating a future where the hosts would wage a revolution. In creating the Los Angeles skyline, Cummings married the current...
And to create a near future Los Angeles, and a near-tomorrow for San Francisco where the Delos HQ is located on the show, Cummings respectively synthesized both cities’ skylines with Singapore and Valencia, Spain.
It’s a world that’s geometric, clean, green, sleek, and organized in shape — a perfect place for host bot Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) to stomp on as she squares off to battle a megalomaniac Serac (Vincent Cassel) who wants control over human beings’ behaviors.
Cummings worked with Westworld VFX supervisor Jay Worth and Dutch architect Bjarke Ingels in creating a future where the hosts would wage a revolution. In creating the Los Angeles skyline, Cummings married the current...
- 8/26/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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