As I was finished with the first set before the Forest set was completed, I decided to help out to make sure it was done as soon as possible so that I could get back to animating. It has taken two days out of my schedule, making me a bit further behind but I still think I can get this animation done in time for the deadline.
First, we had to make some trees. We were lucky enough to find some tubes with bark-like texture at the S.C.R.A.P place, and we bought 6 of them which was enough trees for this set and we plan to reuse them for the castle set. We paper-mached some roots onto them to help them stand up, and secured them onto the board by attaching some foam to the board that was the same size as a hole we had cut in the bottom of each tube. This meant that each tree was easily removed without damaging them or the set, but wouldn't move if knocked while animating. We used PVA glue and covered the floor of the set with soil to give it a good texture and then spray painted everything with a black base coat. Once this was dry, we painted all the trees with a couple of layers of different shades of brown paint to give it a good texture. We then painted what would be the inside of the ring of trees a slightly more orangey tone to give the impression that the campfire that will be in the middle was lighting them. We did a similar thing with the soil, painting it warmer in the middle of the circle, and then elliot used some pebbles to create a ring where the fire would be and some sticks to make it look like a campfire.
We then had to use some moss and sticks to hide the base of the trees as the paper mache had warped a little, making the bottom of the trees look strange.
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