If you take a look at the book Boo and Baa, Have Company (Bu och Bä får besök) by Lena and Olof Landström, you will see that the models we built is looking very much like the original illustrations. We wanted to keep the world for Boo and Baa very close to the world kids already recognize from reading the books. But we also wanted to give Boo and Baa a more real world for the film. We wanted to give the picture more depth, so we choose to build models instead of using illustrations for the backgrounds.
Here is a collage I made to find the feeling of the garden.
Then I made a simple mock-up in the studio, to get the size and perspective right.
I put the picture in the computer to pick colours for the houses.
Then we started building the houses. Here is Annika Bergström painting.
The houses in place in the studio. Annika at the camera.
The photo for the background turned out like this (after some adjusting in photoshop).
And the image from the finished film.
(written by Anna Erlandsson)
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