Set design

The above was the first incarnation of the set for where the majority of my animation takes place, built from cardboard, painted, wallpapered and finished with a mantelpiece and curtains (with ironed-in creases and everything). For the flooring I used brown paper and drew in the floorboards with a fine-liner.

For the wallpaper I used A3 paper soaked in tea. I thought this would make it look old and rotting but actually turned out looking rather pleasant - not what I was going for at all! So I ended up blue acrylic with a small amount of black oil paint and painting over it. I knew that the two different types of paint would not mix properly and would give a blotchy, dirty appearance which i would be much happier with.

Thats me in the set. (just to give an idea of the scale).

windows (rear view)

Whilst we're on the set it might be worth me drawing your attention to the windows, because they took me bloody ages to make out of cardboard and acetate!

Me and my moon

I built the moon using a beachball i bought from poundland, papier mache and white emulsion. The house on top was made from cardboard, complete with matchstick pillars and painted with indian ink.