Re: ** New Members: Please Introduce Yourselves Here! **
Hi everyone!
My name is Jeffery Douglas. My interest in props began like many here, probably: Star Wars happened and I began making Super 8 movies.
Approximately 15 years later, I co-founded Dead Earth Productions, a San Francisco Bay Area company that designed and produced horror-based live-action roleplaying games set in the 1920s and 1930s. The greatest production design challenge for these events was creating period-accurate props that could be picked up and examined by the players and survive the encounter.
Additionally, we ran an Effects/Prop house, producing make-up and special effects for independent films. Of note, we worked with White Wolf Games creating articulated werewolf rigs as well as various other appliances for Rage, a trailer project for the then-new collectible card game; and most proudly gaffed, gripped, boomed and created props and effects for The Dark Sight, one of the shorts in Tales of the Ackermansion, a horror tryptic hosted by the mighty Forrest J. Ackerman. As happens all too often though, neither of these projects have seen the light of day (to the best of my knowledge).
Dead Earth Productions was a non-profit venture, meaning we were unable to make a profit, and thus folded in the late 1990s.
I've been an RPF lurker, off and on, for a looong time and just recently became re-engaged by the outstanding quality of the builds represented here. They are both inspiring as well as daunting!
I haven't been able to sustain myself via my creative desires and, unfortunately, my corporate life has kept me from participating. I'm attempting to shift some life priorities now, so hopefully that will change and I'll have something worth contributing!
- JD
