Behind the scenes: Underfoot episode 3
Underfoot has gone through some changes since our last adventure.
Underfoot has gone through some changes since our last adventure.
Dogs! I simply cannot stop buying dogs. Small dogs, thankfully. And inanimate. But, still, dogs.
In my next Underfoot episode, I’m going to be playing around with the distinction between dolls that seem fully alive and dolls that seem less so.
I take back everything I said about Olive’s (my Iplehouse Amy doll’s) posing ability in my previous post. Apparently, although she’s not always able to resist the forces of gravity, she can totally dance.
After going round in circles for while figuring out how to make a realistic-looking treehouse floor, I finally stumbled on something that seems to be working.
My fashion dolls all have pretty similar posing abilities. Not so my ball-joint dolls. Working on the treehouse with the three sisters, I’m finding that I have to re-write the episode based on who can do what, instead of based on the characters themselves.
When I started working again on this story, I realized how incredibly slapdash and haphazard I’d become about setting up for episodes – just grab a few items, set up the camera, and shoot.
I *could* do that for the treehouse, but I’m expecting them to spend much of the next year there, so I think I have to slow down and really create a space that works.
After the flurry of activity in Rosie’s last episode, it’s oddly quiet today.
I love the look of the Dollzone Gill doll. Unlike most of the 1/4th dolls, Gill is solidly a kid,