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Anne Porter is a set designer who worked under Scott Chambliss on Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness. Both films earned her ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations in the category Fantasy Film. Porter has worked as Digital Set Designer on Star Trek Beyond. On Into Darkness, Porter created the floor design of the USS Vengeance bridge. [1](X)
Porter received her BA in Fine Art from the University of California Los Angeles in 2000 and attended the Southern California Institute of Architecture where she graduated in 2005. She also attended the Beverly Hills Lingual Institute and the Alpha Sprachinstitut and is fluent in German. Her specialities as digital set designer include Rhino 3d modeling, construction drawings, art directing, and digital fabrication.
Following her work as staff assistant on Minority Report in 2002, Porter started to work as art assistant on The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). Her work as set designer can be seen on Iron Man (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Alice in Wonderland (2010), The Back-up Plan (2010), Bunraku (2010), Thor (2011, starring Chris Hemsworth), The Hangover Part II (2011), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), and Real Steel (2011).
More recently she worked as set designer on The Avengers (2012, with Chris Hemsworth and Paul Lacovara), Nicholas North (2011), Earth to Echo (2014), Furious 7 (2015, starring Dwayne Johnson), and Tomorrowland (2015, written and produced by Damon Lindelof, produced by Jeffrey Chernov, music by Michael Giacchino, and production design by Scott Chambliss).
Beside her two ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations for her work on the Star Trek franchise, Porter received three more nominations in 2009 for her work on Iron Man shared with Kevin Cross and Tony Bohorquez, in 2011 for Alice in Wonderland, and in 2012 for Cowboys & Aliens. She won an ADG Award in 2013 in the category Commercials and Music Videos for her work on the X-Box: Halo 4 Commissioning commercial.
Star Trek awards[]
ADG Excellence in Production Design Awards nominations[]
Porter received ADG Excellence in Production Design Award nominations as Set Designer in the category Fantasy Film
- 2010 for Star Trek, shared with Scott Chambliss, Dennis Bradford, Curt Beech, Luke Freeborn, Beat Frutiger, Gary Kosko, Aaron Haye, Keith P. Cunningham, Clint Schultz, Ryan Church, James Clyne, Paul Ozzimo, John Eaves, Bruce G. Smith, Karen Manthey, C. Scott Baker, Dawn Brown, Kevin Cross, Andrea Dopaso, Jeff Frost, Scott Herbertson, Joseph Hiura, Billy Hunter, Harry E. Otto, Andrew Reeder, and Jane Wuu
- 2014 for Star Trek Into Darkness, shared with Scott Chambliss, Ramsey Avery, James Clyne, Lauren Polizzi, Kasra Farahani, Michael E. Goldman, Harry E. Otto, Andrew E.W. Murdock, Jason Baldwin Stewart, Natasha Gerasimova, Steve Christensen, Andrea Dopaso, John Eaves, Nathan Schroeder, Ryan Church, Christopher Ross, Victor Martinez, Steven Messing, Karl Strahlendorf, John Chichester, Tex Kadonaga, Kevin Cross, Andrew Reeder, Jane Wuu, Richard F. Mays, Allen Coulter, Karl Martin, Scott Schneider, Lorrie Campbell, Easton Smith, Tammy Lee, Tim Croshaw, Clint Schultz, and Karen Manthey
External links[]
- AnnePorter.com – official website
- Anne Porter at the Internet Movie Database