Tomorrow afternoon the first of the guests for our Sculpture Magic Workshop will start to arrive. We still have plenty to do in order to get ready. While some of the crew worked on those chores the rest of us were welding madly on the target feature. We finished off the heavy structure just in time for our engineer to inspect the welds and bracing. He liked what he saw and signed off on the massive structure. That allowed us to dismantle the upper pieces and then button up the pencil rod frame on the lower portion. The piece is almost ready to send off to the galvanizers. We have a few more welds to finish off tomorrow before everything is pushed out of the shop and we make final preparations for the workshop.
The incredible shrinking guest
The ideas and sketches that make the cut for our new project are redrawn a final time as finished concepts. This time a little more attention is paid to proportions and scale. Guests who enter this enchanted garden will be instantly shrunk down to a quarter of their normal height. The elves and fairies who live here are then about one half of (this new) human size.
Writing the rules
As we get further into the planning of our next project we must first write a set of rules. It's an important part of the process of defining this new world we are about to create. What is the scale of things in relation to our guests? Which objects are merely objects and what has a personality and face? We need to determine the colour scheme and how the real landscaping will fit in. And all of this needs to closely relate to the story we are seeking to tell. It also necessary to work well in a commercial setting. It has to be marketable. It is a fun process that will continue for some time to come.
