Making the Cobbled Pavement

At first I was going to have the pavement as concrete looking slabs like you'd see in a city but after experimenting I realised this didn't fit the style I was going for in my film, even though if I had used this technique it would have taken a lot less time and would have been easier to animate on. When experimenting I found that making cobbled pavements would fit my style a lot more, and I could find something to use as moss growing in-between the cobbles. To make the cobbles I used Sculpey to mould stones that would be completely flat on the bottom and not too round on the top to make it easier for my characters to stand on. I would fill up baking trays with them and then once baked removed them and put them aside for spray painting. I decided not to spray paint all the cobbles the same colour as there needed to be some variety as cobbles aren't always the same colours so some were left unpainted. I put these all onto my set by positioning them as close together as possible kinds of like a jigsaw, I also made a separate larger pavement for when Sam falls over as the set pavement wouldn't be large enough. To make the moss I bought some fake moss from games workshop and then glued pieces down between the stones. I really like how the pavement turned out in the end and I'm glad I found this way rather than the pavement slabs. It was a very time consuming method but it does suit the style of my film a lot and I couldn't see it any other way. To improve on this I would have done this earlier because of how much time it took because of how many stones I needed, but luckily this didn't heavily impact on my timeframe.