Daniel Jennings

Daniel Jennings has a career in motion picture design spanning thirty-five years as a set designer and an art director for television, feature films, theme park and facilities design. If you admired Sum of All fears, Armageddon, the original X-Men, Mirror Mirror, or National Treasure-Book of Secrets, you have seen some of his work. His oeuvre includes the Oscar winning films Dick Tracy and Argo, and the Emmy award winning ER.

An early adopter of digital design technology, particularly the use of digital models in the art department design workflow, Professor Jennings stands among the top art department modelers and draughtsman working in the LA motion picture industry.  Professor Jennings is an active member of the Art Director’s Guild of America, where he teaches skills development classes for established art directors and production designers interested in digital design software. He also teaches Stage Craft to incoming Junior set designers at the Contract Services Administration Trust Fund; the organization that certifies all union members as fit for professional work on union shows. 

Professor Jennings is committed to establishing in his students a solid knowledge of the technical and aesthetic aspects of cinema design and the use of 3D modeling and draughting systems to communicate design ideas dynamically.  This knowledge will serve as a foundation for positive work management and communication in today’s art department environment.