Elliot is building my sets. To make the castle, we measured out and bought a large piece of MDF to be the base of the set. I also had a fair bit of cardboard that Elliot thought he could use for the castle. We put it in the stop motion room in 210 which is where I'll be animating and Elliot will be building the set. We measured out the cardboard to find a rough height for the castle and the walls and sketched out roughly where the path and trees would be. I then left Elliot to make a start on the set.
Elliot had gotten a bit behind on my sets, so I had to help out with this set as well so that I could begin animating on it. We used a large piece of cardboard as the castle, drew on where the door would be and then I covered it in bricks also made of cardboard while Elliot did a similar thing with the towers. I also used strips of cardboard on the door to act as planks of wood. Then, while Elliot was assembling and bricking up the wall that goes between the forest and the castle, I covered the board in PVA and soil to give it a forest floor texture. I used a thinner layer of soil for the path and inside the castle grounds so that it was easier to see the difference and easier to drill through for tie downs.
Once all the assets were assembled, we took them outside to spray paint the base coat of black on them. Once the base coat was dry, elliot mixed up a brown coloured paint with some PVA and a little water that would help the paint cover and stick to the soil texture, and we began covering the board using a dabbing technique. We did two to three layers with slightly different colours to create depth and texture to make it look good on camera. We then dry-brushed three layers of different greys (dark to light) on the walls of the castle and towers and outer wall to create the impression of worn in brick. I used a similar effect with the wooden door to create a wood texture.
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