Tomodachi Life Cinema Build with Truman Show Poster

Discussed the cinema design for my Tomodachi Life island with a friend, and we decided the exterior poster should be The Truman Show. At first I wanted to make the big screen look like a surveillance livestream feed, but the more I thought about it the more unsettling it felt… The second idea was to make it look like a TV static screen, but after trying it out it was terrifying at night so I scrapped that too. In the end I referenced the original poster and had my Miis appear in it. To get the poster looking clear enough, I placed vertical boards in front of the building — it took a lot of effort to get everything aligned on the same plane. As long as you're not viewing it from a direct side angle, the gaps aren't too obvious (compared to lines blurring into a mess, I'd honestly rather have pixel perler beads…) A lot of people describe Tomodachi Life as an ant farm — but isn't a life sim just another kind of observation box… Thinking about the cinema always makes me think of Ashu, so I put the café where Rei works part-time right next door, and drew a phone booth too… Even though Tomodachi Life is always sunny, this little corner always feels a bit melancholy…