The Busy World of Richard Scarry

One of my favourite things in my childhood was getting lost in all the details of systematic things like maps, toy cars, lego, or the children books of Richard Scarry. I equally enjoyed the kids show based on it, and I believe it played a major part of the childhood of not just nineties kids, but for kids of many generations. During building out this proof of concept I definitely wanted to work with my own collection, which resulted in some corners cut, and lots of untapped potential in the source material (such as the cutaway houses, and detailed interiors). With what I had, I tried to capture what was most iconic, so I recreated the apple and cucumber car, the town hall and of course the beloved lowly worm. I also wanted to bring together the building experience of sets of old and new, by using lots of simple bricks and techniques in the town hall, and using more advanced snot building on the cars.