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[[Image:Originalclaymodel.jpg|thumb|left|Prototype home for [[Ron]]]]
 
[[Image:Originalclaymodel.jpg|thumb|left|Prototype home for [[Ron]]]]
[[Image:Creaturesdisplaycase.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Background to Creatures. Scale: 4.5ft high, 6ft long.]]
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[[Image:Creaturesdisplaycase.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Background to Creatures. Scale: 4 1/2ft high, 6ft long.]]
 
Believe it or not, most of the background imagery to [[Creatures]] was the result of actually creating a '''model''' with suitable additional decoration and digitally photographing it; subsequent touchups were made by [[Jason Riley]] and [[Colin Swinbourne]] to adjust the image to the technology of the time. The entire model fills three large display cases! Initially the idea of [[Steve Grand]], it was drawn up by [[Mark Rafter]] and created by ''[[Complete Fabrications]]'', a team of local model-makers who were used to making models for museums. Each case cost around £5,000 to make. The model did not include the desert island or mini-waterfall.
 
Believe it or not, most of the background imagery to [[Creatures]] was the result of actually creating a '''model''' with suitable additional decoration and digitally photographing it; subsequent touchups were made by [[Jason Riley]] and [[Colin Swinbourne]] to adjust the image to the technology of the time. The entire model fills three large display cases! Initially the idea of [[Steve Grand]], it was drawn up by [[Mark Rafter]] and created by ''[[Complete Fabrications]]'', a team of local model-makers who were used to making models for museums. Each case cost around £5,000 to make. The model did not include the desert island or mini-waterfall.
  
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'''Did you know?''' The model had fairy lights (as shown) because there was originally intended to be a day and night in ''Creatures''.
 
'''Did you know?''' The model had fairy lights (as shown) because there was originally intended to be a day and night in ''Creatures''.
  
Two models - the [[Statue of Nornity]]/[[ocean]] scene <small>(4ft long, 3ft wide, 5ft high)</small> and the [[garden|forest]] scene <small>(6ft long, 3ft wide, 5ft high)</small> - were [[Forum:Creatures Display Cabinets|auctioned in May 2010]], and purchased by [[Spoony]] and [[Don]] respectively.
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Two models - the [[Statue of Nornity]]/[[ocean]] scene and the [[garden|forest]] scene - were [[Forum:Creatures Display Cabinets|auctioned in May 2010]], and purchased by [[Spoony]] and [[Don]] respectively.
  
 
The large model, from the settlement to the kitchen, is currently owned by and displayed at [[the Centre for Computing History]] in Cambridge.
 
The large model, from the settlement to the kitchen, is currently owned by and displayed at [[the Centre for Computing History]] in Cambridge.

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