Miniatures, extensions & forced perspective · Core
Model maker
ELI5
A craft specialist building physical scale models, miniatures or prototypes.
Used in conversation
“Please bring the model maker into the next art-department meeting.”
Pitch context
You may encounter “Model maker” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.
Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.
Sources & evidence · 3
Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.
- ScreenSkills — Online Learning Glossary and Job ProfilesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- Association of Independent Commercial Producers — AICP Guidelines and Best PracticesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- pitch.dog — Pitch Dictionary Deep Research SynthesisSupporting source family · practitioner · checked 2026-08-14