One really interesting old set I had to get finished and dressed was a salt factory, a beautiful old period set with peeling paint and faded walls. We had to cover all the ground around it with salt where the bags would have been stacked and loaded onto cargo ships. It was built near the ocean so that trucks could transport the sacks of salt for

We sat in the living room (then dominated by a flat-screen TV, with no tabletop cities even dreamt of) and he told us about his current task at ILM: the design and construction of a bloodthirsty demon with blue-denim skin. It was part of a horror movie set inside an Abercrombie & Fitch.