For years I have had a passion for all things Disney, the standard that they create in their marketing and products is out of this world, so I've had a dream of always working for the company one day, in pretty well any role, but I think I'd excel in a creative one.
I have applied for jobs over the years, but have always thought that my resume doesn't quite convey what I am truly capable of and that was how this project was born.
I had several ideas whenever I first thought of this many months ago, but one just kept sticking with me, the Haunted Mansion. The Haunted Mansion has always been a favorite of mine, the simplicity of the ride yet the effectiveness is second to none making it a fan favorite for myself and many others. I've loved the ride since I was younger and have even used some of it's gags in other things I've done (Pepper's Ghost, Leota, etc.)
So here it is...the way I decided to send a resume and cover letter, will it work? Only time will tell, but you can't go through life avoiding the risks!
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I had a small 7"x4" plaque version of the Haunted Mansion sign but I wanted it to say something different, obviously, so I designed a medallion for the center in Autodesk123D.
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After the medallion was designed I went to 3d print with it, this is the smaller test version that I did before moving to full size.
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I then cut down the center portion of the plaque that I had and removed the 'Haunted Mansion' text, instead installing the medallion that I printed. The edges were then coated with putty to give it a smooth look again.
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I had the vision well ahead of time to make this look like it was ripped right off the wall, like someone had taken the bricks and all with it, so I came up with 4 different brick designs with slightly different textures and sizes and printed out 31 to fit the plaque that I was using.
I also took to note the scale of the project, when you look at the sign from the park you can see there are 6 or 7 bricks behind it, while I only got about 5 1/2 I was still happy with the scaling.
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The sign was given a dark base coat, I then put this all together to get a general idea of the layout, you can also see a brick color test in the top right. I went through several iterations of brick color and texture to get something I liked most.
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Bronze paint laid on.
One of the challenges was to bring back the patina look that the sign originally had, several years ago I ran across a paint that uses an activator to create the bronze patina that I used for this project.
One of the challenges was to bring back the patina look that the sign originally had, several years ago I ran across a paint that uses an activator to create the bronze patina that I used for this project.
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After the activator was sprayed you can see the change in the bronze, slowly becoming a green patina. It took several coats to get it where I wanted it to be.
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This was another test fitting, here you can see the patina on the sign, also the bricks were given their base red coat.
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Bricks weathered and finishing work on them. I took several pictures while out at stores and restaurants of their bricks, one thing I noticed were the subtle color differences in the bricks which is something I emulated here.
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All along I knew I would be handmaking the envelope for the front, these are two of the envelopes I worked on, they were cut from watercolor paper and then stained with coffee and tea and an oven to give it an aged look.
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The wallpaper for inside of the envelope was created entirely in Adobe Photoshop with some reference images of the original wallpaper from the rooms. I also gave it a bit of grunge aging to make it seem more authentic.
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I went through several different ways to create the frames for the interior stretching portraits, eventually I decided to create a frame in tinkercad and 3d print those as well. I made some sacrifices on the overall accuracy due to the sizing of the frames.
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This is the interior of the envelope, including a snippet of what the letter looks like after printing and weathering. I LOVE the stretching portraits of Haunted Mansion, so I had to use them somewhere, I 3d printed the frames and tried to make them look as close to the ones used for the attraction. Here you can also see the printed wallpaper that I made and weathered a bit.