US artist creates incredible miniature film sets including Harry Potter and Friends

An artist makes incredible realistic dolls' house-sized miniature film sets - including Friends, Harry Potter and Jurassic Park.

Bridget McCarty, 37, creates miniature film sets – but they're so detailed you wouldn’t even know they were fake.

Her works include iconic scenes from Jurassic Park, Friends, and Harry Potter and can take up to a MONTH each to build – but the outcomes are astounding.

Bridget, from Los Angeles, California, US, says it started as a hobby – but it became her full-time job when people started queueing up demanding to buy her pieces.

She said: "Creating miniatures can really take you away to another world.

"My ideas can be found everywhere - from my favorite TV shows to theme parks.

"They can be made from anything you can imagine.

"I love having a finished piece and knowing I used my best skills to create it."

Bridget told how she was inspired by her grandmother, who used to collect miniature items whenever she traveled and would store them on shelves.

But as a child, Bridget was never allowed to touch the delicate items - which made her more and more curious.

She said: "Knowing I couldn't touch them made me more obsessed with them."

As she grew up, she began to create miniature pieces of her own as a hobby alongside studying in school.

But when she started visiting conventions and set up a small online shop, people were fascinated - and demand for her tiny scenes meant it soon became a full-time job.

Bridget, who is also trained in animation art, said: "Other artists bought a lot of my pieces and motivated me to keep it up."

Her pieces are doll-house-sized rooms made room wooden boxes - with dimensions of 50cm or less - and depict film sets.

She creates the incredible sets from "anything you can imagine" you can imagine after fitting tiny electrical wiring to light the rooms up.

She said: "Sometimes, you can go to the craft store and your mind will be blown by ideas."

Her tiny sets take up to a month for one project - or even longer if she juggles several at once.

Some of her most recognizable pieces include iconic scenes from well-known films and TV shows - including Monica's flat in Friends, and Flourish and Blotts bookshop from Harry Potter.

She has even made a tiny but incredibly detailed version of Big Bang Theory's Comic Centre of Pasadena.

Bridget's inspiration most commonly comes from her favorite TV shows as well as theme parks and attractions she visits.

And she has no plans to stop - with her tiny scenes and other tin
y items becoming more and more popular.

She said: "I love having a finished piece and knowing I used my best skills to create it.

"I know the scale is correct.

"Followers love to see photos of my work.

"It can really take you away to another world and inspire many more people."