This week I've focused mainly on building and prop work, but I squeezed some character work in later on.
Thumbelina's home changed structure after I received a tone of feedback from my mentor Vince Fung, who forwarded my work to Ash Huang, who gave me even more advice =). I've yet to address everything they said to me, so this house is still a WIP.
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| Thumbelina and her mother's home |
Between working on this I also worked on Thumbelina's room. I struggled with this design, mainly because the door placement did not make sense. As Thumbelina lives in a fragile teapot I could not convenience myself that just drawing a perfectly door shaped hole in the teapot would work any kind of structural change to the teapot would just shatter it. I referenced back to a older sketch which had the teapot on its side so the natural hole at the top became the door and the design started to work.
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| Previous sketches- the top left sketch lead to the final room exterior |
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| Thumbelina's room exterior: at this point I moved onto a different design |
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| Finished exterior, warmer colours were used to match Thumbelina's clothes and other props |
I finished off 2 props mentioned in the book Thumbelina's cradle and bed. I changed up the colour pallet from my initial cradle design to have the contrast between a cradle, something her mother made for her when she was a baby, to her current bed which Thumbelina would have made for herself.
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| "A walnut-shell, elegantly polished, served her for a cradle; her bed was formed of blue violet-leaves, with a rose-leaf for a counterpane." |
From here I moved on to the interior of Thumbelina's room. A 3D blockout was made to test lighting and some camera shots. This was then roughly painted over for colour thumbnails.
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| Colour keys for Thumbelina's room |
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| WIP thumbelina's room |
Near the end of the week I cleaned up the butterfly character ready for the book.
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