Season Six Visual Development I

Part One

Hello Hedge Witches!

Today, as we come up on the anniversary of Summer Camp Islands Season 6 release, I thought i’d share some visual development from our final 20 episodes. As Episode One was a classic camper romp, it didn’t have any predesign. So we begin with:

Episode Two - If I Only Had a Wand

Our design references for this episode were Rugrats, Clarissa Explains it All and 90s summer outfits.

Kent Osborne taught me how to do a New Jersey accent for this episode - the trick is saying ‘Joy-sey.’ I didn’t learn any other tricks and as a result my accent is… err… spot on and really good!

All designs by Thomas Wellmann

Episode 3 - See Bees Gee Bees

Our design references for this episode were the More Than Honey documentary, British gardens and this gorgeous John Singer Sargent painting.

We also spoke to a bee expert who told us that in order to make a beard of bees you just have to put the Queen in the middle.

For Hedgehog’s witch outfit we toyed a lot with what her symbol should be, experimenting with an elephant for our sweet Oscar

and her Key from Hall of Mooms, which is ultimately what we chose.

All designs by Thomas Wellmann

Episode 4 - Pepper’s Funeral

One of my favourite episodes of the whole show - soft painted clouds, stormy weather and an entire illustrated eulogy by Seong Ryul which you can see it’s in it’s entirety here.

All designs by Thomas Wellmann

Thank you for continuing to support this substack. Part Two coming soon. <3