New Hometree

Ok, finally, as promised here are some pics of our custom Avatar themed bedroom.









The bedroom light that Ato custom painted the shades to resemble a Pandoran plant:

And here are photos of the custom diorama and ikran perch that we made last week. We took a little creative license with the diorama because we had to incorporate the figures that we had.

This is a panoramic photo of the 165cm wide diorama. The photo is a little wonky because the panoramic feature of our camera doesn't like travelling sideways instead of just pivoting.


And some close ups, moving from left to right:









AND OF COURSE IT ALL GLOWS IN THE DARK!!! Although it's hard to get good photos in the dark. We had to use a blacklight to get the photos, which made things glow a bit too much in the photos. To the naked eye in the dark it has a natural bioluminescent glow like in the movie. The first photo is the closest to how it really looks at night.









And the perch we made for the baby ikran:



They are mounted on the wall above the bed.

Me likes. Me likes very much!!! Next step is that you'll start dreamwalking

Whoah, no wonder it took you that long until everything was the way it's supposed to be. How did you get that huge picture on the wall?
I'm deeply impressed... here. What a lot of work and detail, but it's been soooooo worth it.

We had the mural custom printed. We took the highest resolution photo that we could find online (which is why we chose that particular photo) and Ato did some photoshop work on it to remove part of a Na'vi weaving that was poorly composited into the original photo, and she added 12 woodsprites into the photo because there weren't any. A little more tweaking and up-rezing and we had a fairly acceptable photo. We researched mural printers and found one that could print it on self-adhesive vinyl rolls to the exact width of the wall for only $300. The "tree-of-voices" we got on sale at a hardware store during Christmas 2017 and I bolted it to the floor so it would stand on its own. The tree was a very bright cool-white, which didn't match the colour of a tree-of-voices, so Ato hand painted all 640 LED lights in shades of purple and pink. The tree is remote controlled so we can turn it on and off without getting out of bed. We are still working on painting UV glow paint details onto the mural and biolume on Jake & Neytiri so that it will glow like Pandora when the lights are off. We're adding more details to the ikran branch too, since the trees on Pandora have smaller plants growing on the bark. And our custom Avatar figures from Disney's Pandora are mounted on an opposite wall (not shown) between the closet doors. Our Sideshow Jake & Neytiri sculptures are in display cases downstairs in the living room now. The bedroom will continue to evolve as we add more plants and details.

The only problem I'd have: I can't sleep when there's any light around...