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Space themed movie set for the Koala Go Playground

This project all started when I wasn’t happy with how the sky looked from my first spaceship project.

I needed to find a way to get rid of the water or at least block my view of it, easier said than done. Eventually I came around to the idea of a movie set like design. Using images or sticky notes or both to control what is seen. Just like a movie set does.

As per usual I started building using one of my templates, Pyramid Escape. I rebuilt the pyramid as a hollow ziggurat (stepped pyramid), this gave me plenty of enclosed space to make my spaceship set, hiding it in plain sight.

I had been experimenting for awhile with the blackest, darkest rooms I could create and the black sticky notes are the blackest thing we have. Another fun fact about black sticky notes is that they don’t have a visible border, which will be important later.

Ok, so now I have a great big, very, very dark room to build a spaceship in, but where are the stars? 

I’m surprised it was so easy, but 2 tries later I had a pattern of stars by just filling the sticky note with random spaces, periods , and the occasional asterisk. It turned out better than I expected.

So now I didn’t have just one star pattern but several as the sticky notes can be rotated. Not only that but the lack of visible border meant that I could shrink the notes and layer them to create the illusion of more depth.

Anyhow, “the proof is in the pudding” as they say. How did it turn out?

Click the above presentation where I tear down the walls of the ziggurat to expose it’s inner secrets… including details of the spaceship. In a later issue I will show you more of this unfinished project and how I made working transporters for this spaceship! Until then…Fly safe o7