Three figures built for the family photograph
Most animal groups are sized to be seen across a lawn. This one is sized to be stood next to. The three pandas are built at 1.5× body scale and arranged so a family can step between them and fill the frame, which is the whole reason the piece exists. On a park plaza or a daytime festival point it becomes the default group photo, and that is a different kind of dwell time from a night-trail piece. People stop, pose, and the plaza centres on the figures.
The black and white boundary is the hard part
A panda's coat looks simple and is not. The line where black meets white runs across the shoulder, the leg and the eye in a way that has to stay crisp or the animal turns into a muddy grey smudge. We build the panels so the black and white meet on a seam that follows the body, then hand-paint the soft edge so the transition reads as fur, not a printed edge. At 1.5× scale the faces are large enough that any sloppy boundary shows from a metre away, which is exactly where visitors stand.
Lit so the white does not blow out
White silk lit from behind flares easily, so the three figures run as separate lighting zones with the output held back on the pale areas. The 5W-class CE LED bulbs sit behind fire-retardant satin silk painted in layered black and white, and the dimming keeps the white coats from washing out while the black legs stay deep. Each panda lit on its own zone also lets you tune the group for a branded or seasonal colour wash.
Placing the group for photos
This piece needs a flat, open plaza with room behind the camera, because the photograph is taken from a few metres out, not from across a field. It is built in the Zigong workshop to your site on the XL-AN series, 0.6 to 6 m class, and the three-figure layout means a triangle of base fixings rather than a single plinth. Base layout drawings and wiring diagrams travel with the figures, and installation can be handled by our team on site or by your crew with remote guidance.
