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Jotundalen as a parallel world where Norse myth and Norwegian folk tales are real; begun as a Peter Pan retelling at art school in San Francisco; Espen is "a boy with a tail and pointed ears"; the article names no elf people
She draws in Photoshop on a Cintiq and tries to give the drawings "a less digital expression"; Disney Renaissance and Ghibli as inspirations, leaning toward manga
The northern lights as a portal; landscapes "as national-romantic as they can get"
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Not confirmed in any source: a statement by Falch on her colour or light. "Northern-lights palette" and "warm fire
against a cold night" are the brief's reading of the books, used here as given.
Figures "delineated with thin, single-weight outlines, and filled with areas of flat color or gentle gradations"; most backgrounds "muted suggestions of detail overlayed with gradients of textured color", with detail saved for establishing panels; Miyazaki as an influence
He redraws a scene eight to ten times as "rehearsals"
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Not confirmed online: how Amulet's elves are drawn (grey skin, long ears, slit eyes, uniforms, the king's mask). The
README's description is from the books as remembered. Looked in: the Wikipedia article, the Lines and Colors review,
search results for interviews.
The autumn palette cut yellow in favour of orange-red and red-violet to stay cool; no blue sky in the forest, layers of atmosphere; foliage placed shot by shot so it would not pull focus from the figures
Lisa Keene on Eyvind Earle: "sculptural deep spaces" with "the verticalities" layered over them; strong straight trees; David Womersley on designing trees elegantly
Each land of Kumandra has its own environment, building material, clothing colours and shape language; Heart is built of drop shapes, Fang is over-scaled
Wolfwalkers: forest "more rounded and softer in shapes versus the town, which was hard, woodblock geometry"; characters drawn in the manner of the place they belong to
Lysalver "beautiful as the sun" live in Alvheim, home of Frøy; in later belief the word gives way to huldrefolk and underjordiske; offerings of butter, milk and beer; alveblot
The eight-petal rose is old and widespread, was made famous by Selbu mittens from 1857, and is now "an international symbol of Norway …, Christmas and winter": the reason the rose is woven, never knitted, and never red or white here
Bauer: muted greens, browns and greys with one bright thing (golden hair, a lantern); small figures among huge trunks; Tuvstarr (1913), watercolour and gouache
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Not looked up, written from general knowledge: the stabbur (a storehouse with an upper storey wider than its foot),
the warp-weighted loom (oppstadvev, already in docs/mountains.md), stave-church shingle roofs, how unpainted timber
weathers silver-grey, moonstone's adularescence.
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Path
Taken from it
a local file
the two looks, palettes, the glow rule, the STYLE blocks, the audit
a local file, world/alvheim.ts, world/regions/fjellfoten.ts
the village, the way up, every distance in README rule 10 (polyline lengths computed from the points)
a local file
the built sizes and the kit's colours (moonstone, moss, cloaks)
a local file, a local file
the existing elf images and the mesh grades (what tears, what fuses)