Earl Ridgell
Illustrator, Creative Director and Producer specializing in children's book Illustration, scenic design, model making and graphic design.
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Earl Ridgell - Model Making
As a producer, Earl believes that 3-D model making is so important to creating a great set and also important for the bottom line. Earl has done financial studies which proved that the cost of the model is completely covered by the savings in the actual scenery. "Models at first seemed to be a luxury, however on the TLC's Junkyard Wars project, we saved almost 23% once the vendors were able to view and touch the model," Earl claims when talking with his former supervisor Gordon Becker, chairman of the Becker Group a Baltimore-based marketing firm. "Models are the best selling tool, it is a large leap from the second dimension to the third and model making helps flush out all the strange geometry that goes into a piece of scenery."
