And Babymouse then, instead of being this sort of like loose story through her day, where we didn’t really follow a tight narrative, became a very tight narrative where we had, you know she had a specific struggle throughout each book, and it followed a normal narrative pattern, like any novel or chapter book would.
And then we also started developing things like, how are we going to deal with her fantasies? Because she has these crazy daydreams, and we didn’t really know how to show that transition from the real world to the fantasy world. And we were going to make the hearts on her dress pink, we knew that, we were like, we’ll have one little tiny splash of pink in everything, everything else will be black and white.
But as I was coloring Babymouse’s bedroom in one of the first scenes, her bedroom is covered in hearts, there are hearts on the wallpaper, hearts on the bedspread, on her dresser, on the floor, on the carpet, you know everywhere. And so I said, “Oh, there’s going to be a lot more pink than we thought here.”
So, when we got to the first fantasy sequence I just put a pink wash over the whole thing, I said, “Oh, this is how we can show that she’s transitioning from the boring black and white world into the exciting vibrant pink fantasy world that she has.”
