final thoughts

As I want to do work in set design and building the sets to me were the most important part. I do feel like they could have been better if certain things, beyond my control hadn't happened. The trees and ground will be difficult to get right. Just like Avatar, who didn't want the environment to look fake and tacky I want don't want the same fake look in mine. The shape, branches, leaves and colours were mostly done spontaneously, the first one was the tester which just so happened to turn out fine the first time. I then applied the same techniques of building the tree body and branches. I loved creating my own little fantasy world, my land of piece.

The final piece wasn't as final as I thought it would be. Something's weren't as they should have been. Some friends of mine noticed a few things that weren't quite right and by the time I could do something about it, it was too late. They could have been easily altered but only myself to blame. I should have double checked and checked the export file. I have taken a lot out of this course, gotten into the University I wanted to go to. Even if the film isn't as how I pictured it, I've still learnt from mistakes and I no how long certain things may take. All this I can transfer onto my University course in September, which I can not wait to start creating.

Mini me

more sets

I tried to pack away the set after it had dried and it wasn't easy and it didn't sound good- I could hear rice coming of. So I may have to build what I can at home then put the grass on at college where it needs to go to avoid any more mishaps.

progress

Mask bought from Ebay for £0.99. Will experiment with a different mask first

Pound shop mask. Used tissue to smooth out the paint so there would be no streaks. The just painted the lips and eye lashes on. I think for the proper mask I may use fake eye lashes instead of painting them

"Grass" made from rice and green paint

 Set base with the plan of where objects will go

 Levels made from newspaper, recyclables and a mixture of water and PVA glue 

 The underside to show what is made from

 I made a ledge on floor so that the built up parts can slot in with out seeing any gaps

Grass rice mixed with glue to stick it down.

By this point I had used 2 1kg bags of rice and I had run out so I asked for donations of Facebook

When this was finished it had about 5kg's of rice on it and at the moment I'm thinking of doing 3-4 sets.

Tree painted by using a spray bottle to cover it quickly and to get streak marks going down to look more like tree bark

 Small polystyrene balls for the characters eyes taken from my laptop lap desk