Wheel of Fortune 2003-2020.

At 2CPro, we pioneered online production coordination for Sony Television's travelling flagship gameshow, Wheel of Fortune.

Wheelinfonet.com provided an online information repository of Schedules, CallSheets, Contacts, Venue Plans, Storyboards, Travel/Location Info, etc. These were augmented by our detailed 3D renderings of the Venue, Stage, Set, Rigging, Lighting, Electrics, Sound, Drapery, Audience, Contestants & Talent, Storage, Restrooms, EMT/Fire, Technical Layers and other Supporting Areas. We'd go to a location, like a year ahead of the show, video, photograph, laser measure, tape measure, and grab all the 2D-CAD plans we could. Then I'd just brute force model the whole place in 3D Studio Max. And then coordinate with the Art Dept & all the depts, and make it into an all encompassing 3D model, render lots, and use our software to annotate it!

These visualizations greatly enhanced and accelerated planning communication, and provided explicit site-based context in meetings. Then they'd really build it for real and we'd document and timelapse that. I still dream of Wheel of Fortune. So. many.. shows... So many super smart people. It was a special time that I'm very thankful for.

WoF @ Madison Square Garden Timelapse

I recently did some background replacement photography for this show. Made somewhere in Canada look like somewhere in San Francisco. Toot some drone reference footage over the Palace of Fine Arts, that was fun.