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P E R S P E C T I V E | M A R C H / A P R I L 2 0 1 6 37 Right: SHANNON WALSH (2016) executed this Prohibition era speakeasy designed using a preexisting location. She earned her BA in theater design and technology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2008 and completed a fellowship in the properties department at the American Conservatory Theater in the fall of 2010. Over the next five years, she worked as a properties artisan, Scenic Artist, design assistant and scenic designer on a variety of projects in the San Francisco Bay Area theater community. Her other work has included selling organic produce at Bay Area farmers markets and multiple seasons as a commercial fisherman outside of Cordova, Alaska. Right: ARIELLE NESS-COHN (2016) Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ness-Cohn graduated with a BFA in theater and a minor in architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since then, she has lived in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she worked in architecture and in television production on the Israeli series ROYAL CHEF, RAMZOR, LEHIOT ITAH and Israel's THE VOICE. She has since transplanted to Los Angeles to study Production Design and most recently, she was the Art Director on the independent feature THE HAPPYS. Pictured here is her model for a rare books and manuscripts library in the year 2100, constructed by hand at 1/4" scale. Below: ROBERT BRECKO (2015) received his degree in visual communication, photography and film design from the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany. He has worked as a freelance Art Director, Set Designer and photographer in Berlin. His list of clients includes brands such as Adidas, Hugo Boss, Montblanc and Nike. For the Int. Raven's Apartment set in THIS GUN FOR HIRE, Mr. Brecko built the rendering first in SketchUp to find the proper angle, then hand-traced, scanned and imported the view into Photoshop, where he colored, textured and lit it. Left: FELIPE HERRERA (2015), a native of Mexico City, created this SketchUp model, rendered in Shaderlight and color enhanced in Photoshop, of a clock tower in the Emerald City palace for WICKED. He showed a passion for the arts at an early age. After attending ENAP-UNAM for a Bachelor of Visual Arts in sculpture and painting, he ventured to California to pursue an in-depth film education. Mr. Herrera has attended workshops at the New York Film Academy and graduated with an associate's degree from the Los Angeles Film School with an emphasis in Production Design. In 2013, he designed his first feature film, MY NAME IS VIVIENNE, as well as other short films and music videos.