How the Magical Bakery Was Designed

I spent about a week designing the bakery that appears in the second Ranunculus Bakery film.

It is one of the locations I was most particular about, and it also gives the movie its title, since this bakery’s specialty is pull-apart bread.

To design the bakery, I took around seven days, first translating my imagined interior into text and then drawing floor plans to make sure there were no contradictions in the script.​
It all started from my own rough, hand-drawn Japanese sketches.​

Because this is a magical bakery, I did not want a simple, generic square or rectangular layout; I knew I wanted to incorporate some curved elements.​
The first of these is the bread display table.

Instead of the neat, minimal shelves you see in a typical bakery, I pictured bread crammed in everywhere, almost like an all-you-can-eat bread buffet.​
Among the piles of bread, of course, is the pull-apart bread.​

There are so many loaves stacked up, and fresh ones are constantly being added, sending up little clouds of steam; it all looks so delicious that I actually got hungry while working on it.​
Whenever a new batch comes out of the oven, the staff ring a bell to let everyone know.​