For two weeks I was working on this set, and now it's done:

The set is approx. 70 cm wide and each 50 cm high and deep.

HORRAY!
A few weeks ago I already showed you some furniture that I made for Orpheus' house. Now that house is fully equipped: I built the room with a door, a window and wallpapers, and I added a bed, curtains, and some smaller light sources.

The door is made of strong cardboard, and the Tiffany glass-like window is a strong cel material painted with acrylics. I made the door's joints from strong paper and tooth picks. The little paper lantern is made of, well, paper. To be more precise, it's my all-time favorite sandwich paper. The sandwich paper offers a tactile experience similar to these fine Chinese papers which I like for its subtle quality. There's a small ballon LED inside so I don't need to hide any cables or batteries. (Hat tip to Shelley!)

In the picture above, you'll get an impression of the wallpaper. I originally designed a floral pattern for Eurydice's skirt, and here I used it for some of the furnishing details as well. I had the idea that the audience may not see the pattern here consciously, but somehow remembers and connects it to Eurydice when meeting her in the underworld. I printed the pattern in small stripes on 120gr office paper, and decorated the walls with them.

Like the door, the window is made of strong cardboard. The glass is the strong cel again, and the curtains are made of soft tissue paper. There is some wire in there to keep it in shape. I actually sewed the paper with my sewing machine – but I guess it's hard to see that in a picture of this quality. The curtain rack is simply twisted wire covered with paper.

The bed mainly contains of a box of cardboard. To give the impression of crinkled fabric, I ripped of the upper layer of paper from a piece of corrugated card board, so you now can see its flutes (it's visible in the picture of the dresser). I pretty much like the bed because I had the idea of using handmade paper for the linen and pillows.

The special thing about this paper is, that it also contains rags next to the typical paper ingredients (it's called Bütten in German). It's very strong and has a nearly textile quality. So I sewed the pillows and the blanket, and worked some wire in them to keep them animatable or in shape.

The little candle is made of wax and black yarn. The candleholder is made of several brass thingies from my tool box, and covered in acrylics. I'm not sure if I'm gonna animate a flame or if it's just too much. I think I'll decide that while shooting. I also added a small lamp from my old doll house to the scenery. It's still working, and I ripped of the old fabric and added a new one made of paper.

I now just need to paint a background landscape to hide my studio if anyone is looking through the door or the window, and to tailor Eurydice's bridal dress. I already tested all the camera angles and they seem to work pretty good.

I hope I don't miss a thing. If you want to know anything else, feel free to ask in a comment. I'm so happy because I finished another set. There are still two sets to go, and then I'm nearly done in preproduction.

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Oh, and I just stumbled about this picture:

This is from 2008, and I'm quite glad to see how the things are developing…

Here is the 2010 version again: