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• Paul Wonsek uses AutoCAD & LD Assistant at NAB SHOW
Quick and Easy 3D Scenery and Lighting Production Designs
Speaker Paul Wonsek designed a small three-person broadcast news set from scratch in Sketchup, quickly creating a design idea to communicate concepts to the production team. The initial design was exported to Autocad and LD Assistant 08, providing a platform to control the actual lighting for different cueing situations.  Drawings and lighting plots were created from the initial design concept.  Other finished 3D design projects created with the same methods employed in this seminar were included from professional theatre, television and architectural venues.