After the evaluation and the reading of some literature about building a shadow box diorama I will try a different approach.
In his articles about creating a artful diorama, Ray Anderson mentioned that the following things will help any diorama:
1. Tell a simple story. You can hold the viewer’s attention for a minute or two at most.
After finishing Northall Dock and reviewing the title of the diorama scene should have been “going to the pub”
2. The figures should be “small jewels”.
On this point I have to learn and practice more.
3. The piece should be as small as possible to create a personal, intimate feeling. The scene should surround the viewer, making him feel part of the action instead of remote from it.
So I decided to follow a different approach. Instead of building one diorama in a APA-box I will build two small scenes with the same theme.
4. There should be many minute, eye-catching details.
This aspect is one of my favorites. Looking for small time based details to make the scene come alive.
5. Lighting should be indirect, often coming from the side to provide high shadow relief.
After finding my led-light set I have the possibility to create a better lightning. I will try out Mikkel’s advice to put the lights more down.
6. Elaborate costumes are a great attention-getters and crowd-pleasers.
I this case I would recommended a look at the figures of The Farting Layouts. Edwardian clothing is just great to achieve this. I try to find typical clothing styles for the period I’m building.
7. The overall effect of the diorama should be that they were created during the period depicted.
Period pictures are very useful to create a convincing total scene.
With my experience of designing and building my previous diorama’s and the advice's of Ray Anderson I designed “Station Road – Shops under arches”.
To see if the two dimensional design is correct I will build a three dimensional try-out.
For the size I used the golden rectangle . So the size of this micro diorama is about 30 x 18,5 cm
For this diorama I will only use textures from Scalescenes, except for the time period details and shop signs. If I hadn’t found his website a view years ago I wouldn’t have been modelling now.
Regards,
Job
After the evaluation and the reading of some literature about building a shadow box diorama I will try a different approach.
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