Month: December 2022

Original audio files created:

When creating the background art I thought carefully about the colour palette I was going to choose, I wanted the outside of the shop to have cosier feel reminiscent of vintage toy shops than the inside which I wanted to come across as more commercialised. I experimented with a contrasting colour palette, having the outside of the shop exhibit desaturated earthier tones whilst the inside has bright neon colours which resemble the sickly bright plastics used to create modern toys. The characters are coloured in pastels as well as the backgrounds, creating a disconnect between the complex real people children are and the stereotypical toys aimed at them. 

All the toys in the film are created with felt, I did this to add some surrealism as well as portray them as these sort of alien objects which don’t truly reflect the real world. 

Our group’s origin story for elephant and castle starts with a man late to a chess match, when he arrives one of his knights is missing so he uses a painted elephant souvenir from his home country of India to replace it. The man wins the match by checkmating the opponents king with his elephant piece and his castle piece thus giving Elephant and Castle its name.

My work on the project:

Illustrations I created for story development on the project, they tell the story of a man late for a competitive chess match who uses an elephant souvenir in his bag as one of the pieces. The two characters in these pieces are developped from my initial sketches

Short animation by me of the man from my illustrations turning his elephant chess piece around to reveal its form to the viewer. This was used as the introduction in the final video

by Frankie Moore