I had vowed to take the night off and not do any work. Wednesdays are usually "TV Night" at my house and I usually settle in and watch Enterprise, The West Wing, and Law & Order. Earlier today I decided to pick up a pencil and grid paper and draft a rough layout of the set for downtown Marmora in Bear Town. This is actually a very important set in the film; the calculations I made last night mean that it will likely be the film's biggest at 60'0 x 70'0 which is pretty enormous when you consider you're dealing with 2'0 tall puppet characters. It will also likely be the most detailed and expensive set to build. Unfortunately, that means if the budget is tight and a set eventually has to be cut, it'll probably have to be this one as we could save on construction costs and shoot on location somewhere in Toronto employing a lot of forced perspective tricks to conceal the fact that the buildings are way too big for the puppets.

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