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.