What we need is a great big mountain landscape...

In the darkness of the studio, my camera fell onto the dirt floor today, fortunately the floor is padded with polystyrene...

Which came from cutting out this landscape:

You hardly ever see exterior wide shots of landscapes this big in stop motion, because I need 4 sets (2500x1800mm) all connected together to create a realistic wide shot (without forced perspective)... This particular set still needs more sculpting, rocks, then paint & snow.

The Exterior fields are being built at 1% of actual size (1:100), but the characters are 1:5 size (20%), so the sets which require characters will be much bigger. Fortunately, Nick is a genious and has saved me heaps of work with his designs (I am recycling sets, stages & materials).