Cry Babies Magic Tears S5 Happy Flowers (Visual development & production desing)
In this season, the Cry Babies discover the Cotton Candy Forest, home to the Happy Flowers—characters who are experts in perfumes and floral essences. It’s a world that quite literally smells amazing! I was deeply involved in designing this new environment, creating a dreamy forest filled with cotton candy trees and blooming fields. It was a visually rich and joyful world to bring to life.
As in previous seasons, I adapted the toy capsule packaging into the animated version of the houses, designing both the exteriors and the small greenhouses that sit atop each one. A special task this time was translating the Perfume Tricycle Playset into the world of the series. Full of charming perfume bottles and tiny details, it turned out spectacular in 3D!
This season also introduced a group of fun secondary characters: The Singing Flowers. Designing them filled my Cintiq with color and petals for quite some time!
As always, I worked as production designer, overseeing modeling and texturing across characters, props, and environments, and ensuring strong visual consistency between the toy line and the more detailed, expressive animated versions.
Early concepts from Cotton Candy Forest.
Cotton Candy Forest. Render provided by Hampa Animation Studio.
Happy Flowers basic house design.
Color proposals for the different little houses according to their looks.
Exterior and interior of the pink house, final colors.
Colors for the houses of the characters Ava, Mía and Sophia.
Ava's house. Render provided by Hampa Animation Studio.
Houses from Rose, Mía and Sophia. Render provided by Hampa Animation Studio.
Playset concept Perfume Tricycle adapted for animation series.
Amazing final model of the Perfume Tricycle, created by the 3D modeling artist of Hampa Animation Studio.
Color guides painted directly on the render.
Concept, indications and render of the jars of the essences Happy Flowers.
Final render of the Perfume Tricycle provided by Hampa Animation Studio.
Character design for the Singing Flowers from the Cotton Candy Forest.
Final models of the Singing Flowers. Render provided by Hampa Animation Studio.