I am a 4th year Sheridan student and have decided to post my progress on my Final year Animation project in a blog. This animation has to be between 1-2 mins (closer to 1) which means that it will become a workload of over 720 full colour drawings.
I took quite a while to decide on my story and to which it got totally tossed out the window the first day of class.After some fretting I went with a backstory to a D&D character I only got to play one session with, named Miss Murder.
•She was a multiclass Druid/Sorceress who was cursed to live as a swarm of crows. Which lead to a lot of fun and interesting situations in the 5 hours I got to play her, but it was her backstory which I found much more interesting.
•I plan on doing this in a semi myth like style, like a grandmother would tell her visitors as a warning. I'll be conveying the story through visuals, little to no voice acting. Likely a poem like story overtop read out in Italian or Spanish.
Winter was approaching and pre-cursed!Miss Murder was tending to her forest's needs. While doing so she came across a Bard (tall handsome, but has no survival skill) horribly failing at putting up a shelter for the night.
Miss murder took pity on him and brought him in for the winter, easily protecting him with her forest. Through their time together she fell in love with him. He knew this and when spring came he begged her to leave with him to the city, but she couldn't, being so intune with the forest she couldn't leave. So he left with the promise to bring back a golden band of union (a ring)
She waited years, upon years for him to return, but he never did. Her connection to the forest allows her to have a much longer life than the people from the city.
One day in early spring (while the leaves have yet to grow) a man came into her forest. He looked identical to the man she loved. She confronted him, worried about him and glad to see he was back. She became greatly hurt when he didn't recognize her.
In her painful rage she murders the man, brutally.
The forest grieves with angry rain.
When she checks the man's body she notices that it wasn't her love. To punish her, the forest sent all of the crows inside it to eat her on the spot. But her willpower collected her consciousness into the crows so that she could seek redemption.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ •This is very rough, and will likely be reworked numerous times before the final animation is finished. I look forward to any suggestions that cal be passed this way!
(I will post more images+info on friday after I pitch this to my teacher on Thursday.)
As for a suggestion for the story, i know this just a rough; you might want to add more mystical and unforgettable scene Miss Murder and the Bard both making an oath/promise of love. As i though, Miss Murder would have loved so much as well wanting the bard to live the forest with, as then their love bonded so close as both would make an oath to the other of love to see each other again.
ReplyDeleteAs for the ending of the story, I would have thought the old man would have been the young bard, and after he was killed a silver band trimmed with golden leaves would been found in his clothes.
Oh interesting! Did you change it so that the victim wasn't the bard, because I recall it originally being him?
ReplyDeleteUhh... story suggestions? How far are you gonna go with the story, just until she's turned into the murder of crows? (bc that'd be an awesome place to end tbh.) Right now I can really only think of things to include symbolically in the animation which I can discuss with you when you actually start. ^^
Oh wow very interesting, I like the concept of the story and characters. I was thinking that there needs to be a cause for Miss Murder's rage. I'm thinking that this Dark guy could be with another woman, and somehow Miss Murder see's them together, maybe a goodbye kiss to her like "I'll see you later!" kind of thing, his girlfriend having to go back to the dorms or class, before he takes his afternoon walk. Just an idea. ^-^
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