PROP MAKER

JOB DESCRIPTION

DAILY ACTIVITIES

• Sometimes you work by yourself or with a team
• In order to make certain props.

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• For every project you're given a budget and
• a date of when you're supposed to finish the
• prop/props.

LOCATION

• A prop maker can work wherever there are
• props needed to be made.
• Most work at Hollywood for large production
• companies while others work for smaller indie
• companies.

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• I would personally like to work for either
• RoosterTeeth or Polaris.
• Both are large gaming/nerdy YouTube channels
• that are slowly starting to grow and create
• shorts and fandom based movies.

SKILLS REQUIRED

• You need a big imagination to figure out
• how to make complex props out of a small
• budget.

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• You have to be able to work with clay
• heavy machinery(such as welding tools)
• and you should also know how to sow.

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• You have to have some people skills because
• sometimes you'll be working with a team.

REQUIRED TRAINING

• The only training you need to become a prop
• maker is to know how to create really good
• looking and sturdy props.
• You should at least have a college degree in
• an arts school.(Drawing, Sculpting, Tailoring)

MATH EXAMPLE

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• Let's say you're working for a company and they
• want to make a Halo short involving a fight scene.
• Instead of spending the hundreds to buy a new
• expensive prop they give you the task to build them
• an energy sword.

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• They provide you with a few
• pictures and a budget and
• leave you to create an
• amazing sword.

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• The first part of building a prop is
• figuring out how big it's going
• to be. So what I would normally
• do is find a reference picture.

WE'LL USE THIS ONE

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• What I do next is cutout the sword and try
• to match it up with a specific body part
• on the character. In the other picture the
• sword looks like it goes from the soldiers
• shoulder to his fingertips.

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• What I do first is take a picture of myself
• holding a ruler an I put it up to a model of
• a Halo soldier.

LIKE THIS

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• I try to match myself to his height then drag the ruler over
• the arm of the soldier. After measuring I figure out his arm is
• about 2'2", more or less, and I now know how long the
• sword is supposed to be. I then figure out the rest of the
• measurements and create the sword.

MATH PROBLEM

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• You need to create a cape for a Superman movie.
• The first thing you need to figure out is how long
• the cape will be but you don't know how tall the
• actor who will be using the cape is so you need
• to look up the average height of a man.