Notes on the Making
Process, decisions, behind the scenes — how the stories get made.
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Building the treehouse
Early morning, and Olive and Fern are busily discussing the treehouse. Olive scouts out a likely tree. And then the sisters get to work. Willow arrives with some refreshments and all three sisters admire their handiwork. ******* Next week is going to be a little discontinuous. I’d planned a little dance session for the three…
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Creating 1/4 scale flooring for $4
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. For something to work for me, it needs to be: Easy Cheap Realistic-looking I’d dismissed the stick-on parquet tiles, because I doubted the girls would install parquet floors in…
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From each according to their abilities
My fashion dolls all have pretty similar posing abilities. The two dolls on the Barbie Made-to-Move bodies (Lily and Daisy) are easier to pose than the two dolls on Obitsu bodies (Camellia and Rosie), but they all pose in pretty similar ways. That means that, when I sketch out a plot, I’m not figuring out…
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Back to the treehouse
While the Mia Fiarello team is making their way to Camellia, let’s check in with the treehouse sisters. 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…
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My Doll Adventure 34: Worlds in motion
After the flurry of activity in Rosie’s last episode, it’s oddly quiet today. In Silverton, OR, not a creature is stirring. And everything is quiet in Syracuse, IT as well. I wonder where everyone could have gone? Ah, *there* they are. Well, looks like they’re all taking off. Let’s hope that Rosie’s map is…
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A sense of place, revisited
In one of my first posts, I wrote about trying to find a place for Camellia in the real world. Her location was difficult to find, since I needed a livable, sparsely-inhabited island which might house a panther. Since there’s not going to be a real reveal on place for her (just far away shots…
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New eyes: Changing the look of a doll
I love the look of the Dollzone Gill doll. Unlike most of the 1/4th dolls, Gill is solidly a kid, although maybe a kid who’s prone to allergies and is always on the outer edges of the crowd. But, when I got my Gill, the only eyes I had for her were these odd blue…
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My Doll Adventure 33: Back to the beginning
Camellia recalls the night she fled. There had been a dance. Camellia dances with the stranger, and then sees that Cado is watching And then, when she realizes that Cado has left, she goes upstairs to find him . . . and finds him holding Daisy, with a gun to his head. ************ As the…
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When the going gets tough, the tough start . . . organizing
I had a millions things to do this weekend. I’m on job hunt, so lots of time and effort in figuring where/how to apply. And I have the last critical Doll Adventure episode – the one where we go back to the very start and see what set everything in motion. On top of that,…