I bought a big bag of cotton wool for making a snowy Narnia and now my room has at least three A2XA2 scenes set up at once. In order to show the room with the wardrobe opening into Narnia, I literally cut the back of the wardrobe away. It now has a hollow back and the wall behind it has a matching hole cut out too. When the room scene is positioned in front of the Narnia scene, the camera looks directly through the wardrobe into the snow.
I had some difficulties taking the photo as there was a lot of balancing involved and coats would fall out off their hangers into Narnia, but I think I got a good shot of Lucy seemingly 'in action', walking into Narnia here. I didn't want it to look like she was just stood still looking into the void, so her feet as positioned to be walking.
Because Narnia has a different colour scheme and tone to that of the room, I didn't know if it might look a bit odd with the colours clashing through the 'portal'/hole, but solved this by adding a dark vignette to the room, really throwing light into the wardrobe where the new colour scheme takes over.
Mr Tumnus is an odd character to illustrate because he is both charming and disturbing. He is a kidnapper but naturally a good-hearted Faun. I wanted him to be sweet and friendly but to keep some of that frightened feeling I once had from reading of his intentions.
The colour scheme makes the scene feel cold and definitely looks like winter.
The lamp-post is all made of a pencil, acetate and card. There is no actual light inside it, that is just an overlay I placed on Photoshop afterwards. I would like to see how this would compare to real practical effect lighting - perhaps some small dollshouse LEDs could be used?
Here Mr Tumnus is supposed to drop his parcels in surprise. He does look surprised, but his parcels look too strategically placed to have been dropped. His umbrella isn't snowy either!
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