Background characters

I used barbie dolls, action figures, stuffed animals and all sorts of toys from my childhood to fill the background with chaos. 

I repainted and restyled the dolls and action figures and put tie-downs in their feets. 

In the case of the stuffed animals, I cut them open and inserted wire armatures and tie-downs to allow them to be poseable. 

I wanted a very cute and styalized look. To achieve this I used fabrics with minimal pattern and painted only with solid bright colors. I primarily drew inspiration from children’s TV imagery and dollhouses.

There are 5 set pieces all together. Each is treated as an independent set, being animated separately in front of a green screen. I will be compositing each panel together to create one large image of a perfect little town. To ensure that the camera movements (the big zoom out) stays the same throughout each pass, I am using a motion control camera that I can program within Dragonframe.