These are just a couple more pieces I made for the scene in the garden at the end of Chapter 4. Both of these could easily have been made in Blender, but I'm trying to subtly interweave digital and physical pieces. As a side note, Poison Fruit has a lot of gardens, since it's set in Renaissance (sort of) Italy. Having already shown Isabella's garden in Chapter 2 (based on the historical Isabella's actual garden) and Giovanna's courtyard garden in Chapter 3 (based on the outside dining area of a modern restaurant), I needed to try and differentiate the Contessa's garden. Hopefully they are different enough...and Poison Fruity enough. More gardens to come!
This is the corner of the stage that the musicians are standing on, under the pavilion. It's just a box tacked together with brads, and I'm sure I'll repaint it later and use it for something else.
And here is the wrought iron gate, which is visible in several scenes. This piece ended up being a little more involved than I had expected. I used a razor knife and a bench chisel to cut it out of the cardboard from the back of a legal pad. So many little rectangles! I think it came out pretty well, though.
Incidentally, the black around the edges is from using an APS-C lens with my full frame camera and not bothering to adjust the crop factor. There's no point when most of the image will be cropped anyway.
Another thing that the garden has a lot of is grass. Of course I have lots of grass textures on my hard drive, but I wanted something more irregular. After all, they haven't invented mowers yet in the Poison Fruit world. I went to walked to the local park and took pictures that I could slop together in GIMP to get the effect I wanted. Here is my QA supervisor, making sure I did the job right.
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