UNIVERSAL PICTURES & SAT.1
HISTORICAL PERIOD DRAMA
ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR
HAND-DRAFTED TIMBER ARCHITECTURE
STRIVING FOR FREEDOM
UNIVERSAL PICTURES & SAT.1 (2008) • DIR. RAINER MATSUTANI
“19th-century American frontier historical realization — precision hand-drafted architectural elevations and full-scale physical backlot timber builds for early American settler log cabins and frontier military stockade forts.”
Authentic Period Joinery & Hand-Drawn Craftsmanship
“Striving for Freedom captures the arduous migration of European settlers carving an existence in the 19th-century American wilderness. The production prioritized tactile historical authenticity without relying on digital shortcuts. Warren Gray hand-drafted comprehensive architectural working elevations and cut-log joinery details for the Settler Log Cabin, followed by supervising its practical construction from local timber. Similarly, he designed and drafted the military outpost stockade fort, with reinforced palisade walls, watchtowers, and defensible gates.”
— Warren Gray, Assistant Art Director & Set Designer
