Camellia Shrine

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Dream Address: DA-7399-1572-5643 Creator Code: MA-7994-6747-0555

Hi, welcome to my shrine for my first ever Animal Crossing island! Animal Crossing New Horizons is the only animal crossing game I've ever played and it immediately captured my heart back in 2020. I learned about this game on a random afternoon and decided to pre-order it since the graphics looked cute. The customization options, ability to collect any/everything, and villager interactions had me hooked within a few days of playing! I started looking at other peoples islands for inspo and learned about "themed islands" - where the island has a specific aesthetic. I thought of how beautiful it would be to re-create scenes from Avatar the Last Airbender - so thats what I did! This page is to not only share my creations & memories, but also document my creation process. My dream address should be available still, not sure about my custom designs nervous . WARNING - this page is asset heavy! Click on images below to enlarge.

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First Days

Enjoying the first days on the island. I forget why but Louie started getting on my nerves , i consider him my nemesis

I loved Shari and Merengue!

Creating Outfits & Designs

After deciding the theme of my island I knew i needed soooo many patterns & outfits that the game didn't have and probably wouldn't add themselves, so I made them myself proud

! Designing outfits was so fun & I loved seeing my villagers wearing them around (there are some pics of that in the villager highlights section).

displaying some custom outfits in abel's

Thinking of the layout

Before actually building anything I rewatched ATLA paying close attention to the architecture and geography. I did some rough sketches of the general layout for the island and spent way too much time looking through the item catalogue on nookazon to get some ideas on which items would fit in each area.

listing items that can go well in each area

listing item combos that can go well in each area

earth kingdom

This is the first area I started working on and one of my favorites! The earth kingdom went through about 3 versions. It was difficult to design & decorate since the resident services building couldn't be moved and took up so much space. I initally wanted to surround the entire area in tall walls, but during terraforming I realized that took up way too much space and didn't look as grand as it needed to. I decided to focus on making more "interactable" areas than scenic ones, so it would feel like I was actually walking through the earth kingdom.

Struggles: trying to emulate the grandeur of the Earth Kingdom with the tall walls and sprawling city in the limited area & showcase earthbending in an interesting way

Fav Area: the bamboo forest with the earthbenders & the kyoshi warrors room!

map of the earth kingdom and a bit of the water tribe

planning

earth kingdom market

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leaves from the vines

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cabbage man

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cabbage man cart in earth kingdom market

wanted posters

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wanted posters for toph, blue spirit, zuko & iroh

refugees coming in

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sokka & suki moon kiss

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secret tunnel

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bamboo forest

kyoshi warriors

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there is no war in ba sing se + jet

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jasmine dragon tea shop

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fighting ring - blind bandit

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earth kingdom throne

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water tribe

This section took me the longest to build. Even with all my planning and item organizing I wasn't sure what to do with the space! At the time of decorating the items like the frozen set and tents weren't released so it hard to create an area that resembled the northern water tribe and the the southern water tribe. Building this section made me be more creative which turned out to be sooo helpful for the fire nation & air temple areas I got to later!

Struggles: finding items that worked in this space

Fav Area: spirit oasis & water benders practicing - realizing i could use the eel models to represent the waterbending made me feel like a genius

planning

organizing items that fit into water nations

thinking of adding a house here... didnt do it

water benders practicing

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southerm water tribe village

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water tribe entrance

i messed around with the entrance A LOT trying to get it to look as grand as the northern water tribe... couldn't do it so I just settled with pretty waterfalls with stars and flowers

northern water tribe palace

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spirit oasis pond

my favorite area and the first part of the water tribe i built!

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Similarly to the earth kingdom section, this area also had a few versions. v1 was the spiral inspired by the avatar statues room but it wasn't great. I landed on creating 3 islands styled after the eastern air temples, which turned out to be great! I loved just hanging out in this area and taking pics.

Struggles: just the layout since there were a lot of scenes I wanted to recreate

Fav Area: secret library, eastern air temples & workshop room in the house!

air nomads

map of earth kingdom, water tribe, and air temples

planning

eastern air temples

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avatar statues

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monk gyatso

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air bison field

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blue spirit

secret library

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more of the secret library - huh who is that?

white lotus crew

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aunt wu tells aangs fortune

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northern air temple: teo + workshop

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sokka dessert

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To be completely honest, the main inspiration for making this island ATLA themed was my desire to recreate the final agni kai between zuko & azula. There are also so many iconic scenes that take place with the fire nation crew, unfortunately I couldn't fit them all (sad emoji). Still, this is probably the most dense area in terms of how many scenes are recreated.

Struggles: balancing everything! so many scenes to add

Fav Area: agni kai in front of the fire nation throne

fire nation