During this time of lockdown we, like most of the world, have been confined to our home. As our apartment has become such an important part of life - it is at the centre of all of our time - we thought it only right that it should feature as the prominent part of our new illustration project, Casa Patata.
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We used real world references and recreated our own clothing for the illustrations to play with the concept of depicting our real selves in stylised character form.
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We chose four different areas of the house to depict typical scenes that have become our day to day: preparing food in the kitchen, eating and drinking in the dining area and working at the computer or spread out at a craft table.
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To make the real photographs feel like a graphical illustration style, we took them all from a similar frontal perspective. This helps to mix the real world and purely 3D character, and gives the audience a moment of confusion between what is real and what is created.
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We sketched out each illustration before moving to 3D to get a sense of colour and composition. We wanted each image to have a different feeling and represent a specific moment that has been key to this time.
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