A hillside covered in bright orange California poppies

Built from the scene shop.

I’m Brandon PT Davis, a scenic designer building native Apple tools from the problems behind real productions. This journal follows the path from a working need to a shipped app.

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Release stories and working notes.

Why each app exists, what changes while I build it, and what I learn when it reaches real creative work.

The software starts in the studio.

Before there was an app, there was a deadline, a reference folder, a paint sample, a scale conversion, or a portfolio that needed to be rebuilt. My scenic work is the source material for every tool here.

See Brandon’s scenic work