DREAM FORGE FACTORY

Here we are, my final submission for the GWCC.

After months of work, my Wizard’s Office, inspired by Dumbledore’s office, is finally complete.

The project started with an old hexagonal glass display cabinet and a simple idea: rather than building a miniature inside a box, I wanted to transform the cabinet itself into a small magical world.

That unusual shape became both the starting point and one of the main challenges of the build. Everything had to be designed around it: the architecture, the tall libraries, the central columns, the balcony, and finally the office itself, sitting at the heart of the scene. From there, the project gradually became an accumulation of tiny builds within the build. The desk and furniture, hundreds of books, astronomical instruments, armillary spheres, telescope, chandelier, candles, scrolls, Fawkes, the Sorting Hat, Gryffindor’s sword and countless other little objects were designed, printed, built, modified or painted specifically for the scene.

One of my main goals was to make the office feel lived in rather than simply filled with recognizable objects. I wanted your eye to travel through the cabinet and keep discovering something new: an object hidden on a shelf, a book on the desk, a small light in a corner or another detail deeper inside the room.

Lighting was also a major part of the project, and another first for me. Once everything started glowing inside the cabinet, it completely changed the atmosphere and was probably the moment when all those individual pieces finally started feeling like a single place.

Sure, there are things I would approach differently now and plenty of lessons learned along this journey, but I am really proud of how this build turned out. It pushed me through architecture, miniature furniture, painting, lighting, composition and an unreasonable amount of tiny books 😅.

So here it is, finally complete.

Wizard’s Office.

Thank you to everyone who followed the build throughout the GWCC, and for all the encouragement and feedback along the way.

Good luck to everyone with their final submissions, and see you on the next build!