Testing Testing...

Yesterday evening I chose miniatures over cocktails. Yes, it's really come to this.
I'm still creating the 'enchanted forest' which is part of my set for 'Myrtle the Witch'. Each tree is individually sculpted and wired with glowing glass lanterns (filled with fireflies / will o' the wisps). I've only made 1.5 trees thus far. Playing with gel filters and a three point lighting set to see what kind of mood can be created with just the light from one tree and 'moonlight'. Came to the conclusion we're going to need about 4 or 5 more lit-up trees.

Stay tuned for more of this forest...

In the Woods...

A quick 'Myrtle' update before I nip out to my second screening of the day ;)

I'm in the process of building out an entire enchanted forest in one inch scale as part of my set for the Myrtle short film. Trees complete with faces and jelly jars hanging from the branches filled with fireflies / will o' the wisps. It's starting to look pretty good and I'm pleased with how the glass jars light up. They're all hand-blown glass and less than 1 cm in height. So like me, this project is pretty teeny.

I'll show and tell a bit more in the next few weeks. Most likely getting this enchanted forest set of mine featured in a magazine, so won't show too much too soon.

miniature scale sets for films, TV, music videos by Caroline McFarlane-Watts

The Magic Trade Shop - Final Result

I started working on this miniature model commission back in Dec of last year (2010) whilst working full time in visual effects (doing 3D conversion) at 'Illuminate Hollywood'. It gained interest from a trade magazine editor who asked for an exclusive on this project for the Nov issue of her magazine. (See previous post about this here)... but now that this mag has wrapped yesterday's fish and chips I can share this with you... 

It's the smallest model I've worked on. Most are 1/6 scale (6 times smaller than real life). You'll be familiar with model sets of this size if you've seen 'The Nightmare Before Christmas', 'Wallace & Gromit', 'Coraline' etc. A lot of the models I've worked on have been smaller, at 1/12 scale (12 times smaller than real life), but this project was actually 1/24 scale. Pretty teeny.