Baking tent models
Added 2023-04-29 08:40:55 +0000 UTC
One of the hardest things about drawing a story set in a consistent visual setting, eg indoors, is maintaining consistency. Most of my comics are mostly set indoors and as I've written here before, I've slowly built 3D models of a lot of those settings to save myself having to lay them out over and over again without making mistakes.
For Great British Bump Off, I made Max a 3D model of the Great British Bake Off tent so that they would not have to endlessly reiterate the same features. I used photos and video to try to lay it out correctly.
One of the difficulties of writing Bump Off was character choreography - the contestants are "tied" to their work benches by their baking tasks, so I had to think hard about how to move them around the tent, in and out of earshot of one another, from those fixed positions. Writing the series was full of what you might call technical challenges.
So my notes before I began scripting were full of little diagrams of how Shauna would have to move, how other characters would interact, and when they had to move en masse, how they would flow.
I didn't 3D model bunting onto everything because, and I don't want to put too fine a point on this, bunting is not hard to draw. But look, what I'm saying is that I'm an artist's dream to work with, the greatest man alive, wasted on comics when sainthood is open to me.
