Notes on the Making
Process, decisions, behind the scenes — how the stories get made.
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Underfoot: A visit to the dollhouse
The girls start their adventure in a world largely in their own scale – a visit to Lily and Rosie on the My Doll Adventure set. They start with a visit to Lily Then Jinjur stays behind for Lily to try to fix her hair While upstairs, Buu and Rosie go for a wild dog…
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Seeing in 1/6 scale
I find it very hard to look at everyday objects and imagine what they might be in 1/6 scale. For my main doll adventures, that means I mostly either make everything in their world, or buy readymade playscale objects. But, for my Underfoot adventure, it doesn’t make much sense for them to have object built…
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What I’ve learned about building a set (diorama)
Here’s the most valuable piece of information I’ve picked up so far from Part 2 on the Stan Winston stop-motion class: you’re building the set *for the camera* and not for normal view. I’m so used to dollhouses – where every item is faithfully reproduced at 1:6 scale, that this was a huge revelation. If…
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My Doll Adventure 17: Rosie’s fairy adventure, part 2
In our last episode, Rosie was grabbed by the fairies. Her adventure with the fairies continues
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My other project: Underfoot
I’m just starting a second project called Underfoot. It has a simple premise – it follows the life of a few dolls who are trying to make their way in a normal scale world. Unlike my main My Doll Adventure storyline, it’s very loosely plotted. I assume there will be a general thread of a…
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A plot too complicated
I really struggle to make decent photos of my plot complications. I can usually get one or two that please me, but the rest are just mundane pictorial representations in service of an overly-convoluted storyline. I’m far enough through My Doll Adventure that I can’t make mid-story plot corrections – the twists and turns are…
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My Doll Adventure 16: A trip to the past
10 years ago . . . a letter from her son-in-law “. . . some devastating news to share with you . . . ” ” . . . she has been unfaithful to me . . .” “. . . refused to leave him behind . . .” “. . . took the children…
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Learning resources: Stan Winston School of Character Arts
Or what I did over the Christmas holidays 🙂 My husband got me a subscription to the Stan Winston School of Character Arts. It’s very affordable – $29 dollars a month for 4 on-demand web courses. I’ve finished the first course – a very detailed start-to-finish 7 hour course on creating a puppet for stop-motion…
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Hopelessly distracted
I managed to get hopelessly distracted over the winter holidays. Between being frozen out of my (unheated) garage workspace, starting a terrific online course about stop motion animation, and purchasing my first ball joint doll, I’m so busy that I can’t get anything done 🙂 The doll adventure will go on, but it may proceed…