Cinematic Pop-Up Dioramas

Where the page becomes the stage.

Each piece is a collision of flat paper and full sculpture — comic panels as backdrops, resin figures mid-leap, and toy-photography lighting that makes fiction feel physical.

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Interactive Spread

The digital book

One piece at a time. The format is deliberate — a page turn, not a scroll. Each spread is its own world.

Book spread
Volume 01

Mood
Format Pop-up diorama

Artist Statement

These aren't fan tributes — they're experiments in scale and medium. The goal has always been to make something that sits in the uncanny valley between collectible statue and child's pop-up book.

Each concept asks: what if your favourite character broke through the page they were printed on?

The Process

Every image starts with the same spatial scaffold — out-of-focus library background, vertical manga panel backplate, fully 3D character hero object, physical ground layer. From there, franchise and mood drive every other decision.

Behind Every Frame

The Blueprint

Every piece in this collection was generated from a single spatial prompt — a schematic that defines the exact layering of background, backplate, hero object, and ground.

01

The library background is always out of focus — it exists to ground the piece in a real, physical world without competing with the subject.

02

The manga panel backplate is flat paper — a 2D world the 3D character is literally escaping from. The tension between those two planes is the whole concept.

03

Toy photography lighting — single softbox, vibrant colour, sharp edge shadows — is the difference between a render and a photograph of a collectible.

prompt_v1.txt
spatial_prompt.txt
<spatial_map>

  [   OUT OF FOCUS LIBRARY BACKGROUND   ]

         [   VERTICAL MANGA PANEL ART   ]
         [ (Action Scene from Series)   ]  <--- Backplate
                      |
         [ 3D [CHARACTER] JUMPING OUTWARD  ]  <--- Hero Object
         [ (Mid-Air Pose, Dynamic Action)  ]
                      |
         [ OPEN BOOK / GRASS / DEBRIS BASE ]  <--- Ground
         [ (Infer based on [SERIES_NAME])  ]

                [ TABLE SURFACE ]

</spatial_map>

INSTRUCTION:

1. Render as a high-end "Pop-Up Book" aesthetic.
2. The Background is flat paper. The Character
   is full 3D plastic/resin.
3. Lighting: "Toy Photography" style
   (Softbox, vibrant colors).
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