I love Reiniger's Cinderella - when you see one of the stepsisters cut lumps off her own foot in order to try and get the slipper on - you don't see that in the Disney version.
Okay, so hookworms it is - and in broad terms this looks to be an exciting and moody art direction. I suppose I'm a bit fuzzy still in terms of the logical relationship between the insides of the human body and the 'haunted forest' environment; obviously, we start in the 'real' wood with the wolf and its poop, so I wonder why the 'inner space' of the human body should look the same? I'm sure you can make it work, but I look forward to getting a clearer sense how we go from the 'outside' to the 'inside' and why the environment remains the same - I guess the idea is that the hookworms turn everywhere into their sneaky hiding place and that they're sneaking about in you...
You're probably familiar with many of these visual references, but I'll share them anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCA79zPaQe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR939M48BG4 (This offers nice ideas as to how you might depart from the flat silhouette approach at key moments, without breaking the aesthetic). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovNUABeCrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTdzCAGH3lU
A question: this dark bedtime story vibe might call for a narrator - or not? In terms of conveying all the information, can you achieve it as a mime show? I look forward to seeing how this develops - but remember - the wolf is only a bookend; I assume you're going to create it in 2D as a silhouette? Even so, don't let it eat your time disproportionately. I'm going to be interested too to learn how you're going to use Maya, and therefore how 'flat' your world will be. It will be fascinating to see some tests on here asap.
OGR 06/03/2015
ReplyDeleteHi Julien,
I love Reiniger's Cinderella - when you see one of the stepsisters cut lumps off her own foot in order to try and get the slipper on - you don't see that in the Disney version.
Okay, so hookworms it is - and in broad terms this looks to be an exciting and moody art direction. I suppose I'm a bit fuzzy still in terms of the logical relationship between the insides of the human body and the 'haunted forest' environment; obviously, we start in the 'real' wood with the wolf and its poop, so I wonder why the 'inner space' of the human body should look the same? I'm sure you can make it work, but I look forward to getting a clearer sense how we go from the 'outside' to the 'inside' and why the environment remains the same - I guess the idea is that the hookworms turn everywhere into their sneaky hiding place and that they're sneaking about in you...
You're probably familiar with many of these visual references, but I'll share them anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCA79zPaQe0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR939M48BG4 (This offers nice ideas as to how you might depart from the flat silhouette approach at key moments, without breaking the aesthetic).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovNUABeCrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTdzCAGH3lU
A question: this dark bedtime story vibe might call for a narrator - or not? In terms of conveying all the information, can you achieve it as a mime show? I look forward to seeing how this develops - but remember - the wolf is only a bookend; I assume you're going to create it in 2D as a silhouette? Even so, don't let it eat your time disproportionately. I'm going to be interested too to learn how you're going to use Maya, and therefore how 'flat' your world will be. It will be fascinating to see some tests on here asap.