Week Two

As I was going through ideas for the Victorian House and looking through my previous posts, I came back to the Lello bookshop. Looking at this with the knowledge that I don't have to make a carbon copy and I can add a layer of something else, I began to throw some ideas round on how I could change it as I still think it would be a good place to model.

I came to the conclusion that I could turn the bookshop in to a Wizard store, or something along those lines. I'm more interested in fantasy and magic than I am in horror so it would strengthen the interest in completing it and making it look the best I can. There seems to be a lot of good reference here as well with tons of films but I want to keep the strong Gothic architecture that comes through in the bookshop.

Starting to look at reference, the obvious route would be Diagon Alley and looking at the different shops from Harry Potter.

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It would look really good to have the shop cramped and just full of junk but it would just be time consuming, making all the different assets, but it could be something I can simple down. I also don't want the shop to be creepy, I want it to give off a mystical feel but still slightly mysterious as it's magic.

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I think I would keep the bottom floor as a bookshop with maybe a few cauldrons and then have the top floor as more of a potions shop/apocrathy.

Next step is to sort out the block out and get cameras in to show where the main focus points are.


References:
1 - http://www.mugglenet.com/2014/06/exciting-new-photos-from-universal-studios-orlando/#prettyPhoto[gallery]/1/
2 - Photo taken by my at the Harry Potter Warner Bros studio Tour