What possibilities does the concept of toy design or micro-environments present to your work?

It is a really inspired question for me.

For me, I will write a story first, a project narrative will always be fun. And base on my story, I will do character design, possibly make a model of it, which should be related to toy design. I have tried this in the week 3 assignment, and I found that it is very interesting to do a series of work about one thing.

Then I would like to do an illustration to better tell the story, for example, a picture book. And do a micro landscape with the character i made before. Maybe the character is changeable so it is more playful, and works for the different scenes of the story.

In this case, the concept of toy design and micro-environment is a tool that tells the narrative, the story.