Diorama art, which can be defined as the 3D modeling of events or scenes that are created by one’s imagination or that have actually happened, allows us to come across historical events or movie scenes with an artist’s interpretation.
Karina, a name from our country, or Şimal Gürkan with her real name, uses the possibilities of this art to embody iconic movie scenes and original designs that came out of her own mind with her own style. Let’s take a look at his detailed works, which you will understand better when you look at the examples.
Now it’s not so scary: the miniature of the bathroom in Alfred Hitchcock’s famous Psycho movie
If you don’t know what a bathroom normally looks like, you can check it out here:
Here we see Murphy’s room from the movie Interstellar, which took more than a month to produce: Details do not go unnoticed.
So how were the books here made?
Here is the original scene:
The next scene comes from the movie Grand Budapest Hotel. Here is the miniature of the reception scene:
In the movie, it looked like this:
We are all familiar with the idea of the ‘secret room’ hidden behind the bookshelf:
Next up is ‘a house from the end of the world’, which we can translate into our language as ‘a house from the end of the world’. The inscription ‘no exit’ on a door that seems unlikely to be opened creates a very pleasant atmosphere, along with walls that are slowly surrendering to nature:
Here is the Hobbit door, which impresses with its details despite its small size.
A small part of the garden at Coraline written by Neil Gaiman and brought to the screen by Laika Studios:
This is how the treated part of the garden looks like:
- A small part of the garden in the rectangular area has been made miniature.
A miniature piano with a post-apocalyptic (post-apocalyptic) theme…
And the fascinating details:
The study titled Santa’s Visit and its eye-catching details:
We can get the ‘post-apocalyptic’ air from the work, whose name we can translate into our language as ‘tomb chamber’.
Everything becomes even more attractive when you take a look at the details:
By clicking this link, you can reach Etsy, Shopier and OpenSea pages where Karina sells the works. Finally, you can reach the Instagram account where he shares the stages of the works and the YouTube account where he uploads tutorial videos from the same link. It should be noted that Karina continues to work on iconic movie scenes and aims to make 7 different miniatures towards November 2022.