Colin Gibson (production designer)

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Colin Gibson (* 1948 in Australia ) is an Australian production designer . He worked extensively with George Miller and won an Oscar for Best Production Design with Lisa Thompson for his work on Mad Max: Fury Road .

Life

Colin Gibson began his career in 1982 in the Art Department as a prop master on the set of Fighting Back . Some of the better-known works in which he participated include works for Die Jugger - Kampf der Beste (1989), Flirting - Spiel mit der Liebe (1991) and Verführung der Sirenen (1993). He worked for Einstein Junior for the first time as assistant production designer (1988). His most famous work in the 1990s was Priscilla - Queen of the Desert . For this film, he and Owen Paterson designed the lavender-colored school bus with which the three travesty artists travel through the desert in the road movie . When Paterson received the AFI Award for this film , but Gibson did not, he is said to have literally cut it in half and passed one of them on to Gibson. The two were also nominated for a BAFTA award , which Dante Ferretti received for an interview with a vampire .

Gibson has worked with director George Miller on several films including A Pig Called Babe (1995), Piggy Babe In The Big City (1998), Happy Feet 1 (2006) and 2 (2011). In 2016, he was finally hired to design the vehicles in Mad Max: Fury Road . He was responsible for all vehicles and designed the War Rig for Furiosa, a huge truck with various extras, a Mercedes limousine , the Gigahorse for Immortan Joe and the Bigfoot for Rictus Erectus. He also created the now famous Doof Wagon, a car that the so-called Doof Warrior, who plays wild metal solos on his guitar while driving, held with four bungee ropes . He also modified the Interceptor, a Ford Falcon XB GT that was already used in the original Mad Max . All cars and motorcycles had to be roadworthy and had to be able to cope with the sand underground in the Namib desert in Namibia , as the driving scenes had to be filmed without CGI at first . Work on the more than 200 vehicles in the film took a total of eleven months before shooting began. For working on this film, he and Lisa Thompson received an Oscar for best production design and a Critics' Choice Movie Award at the 2016 Academy Awards .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luke Buckmaster: The Adventures of Priscilla - five things you didn't know about the Aussie hit. The Guardian , June 17, 2015, accessed January 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Luke Buckmaster: Mad Max: Fury Road: meet the Aussies behind the wheel of Furiosa's War Rig. The Guardian , June 3, 2015, accessed January 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jason Guerrasio: Here's how the insane vehicles were created in 'Mad Max: Fury Road'. Business Insider Germany, May 13, 2015, accessed January 3, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Gibson, Colin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian production designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia