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ANTI BOARD TEENGIRL
Wolves In The Wood
It was an animation project for music video, but the production won't be continues because of multiple reason , since it already done some shots of the video, and the clients allowed me to showing these process as part of my portfolio (thank you),
so there we are:
STORY
it's an animation that talked about how to deal with family's death when we were feeling alone, with telling a story that a young wolf say goodbye with his father. 'Death is part of the procession of life' that is the main idea of this video. Although the music was talked about the friends' support in the situation like this, what I tried to focus in visual is how's the main character to dealing with his/her emotion in the event of force majeure . The song that in the animation was already gift as a companion /love letter from friends to support the others. I think it would be too repetitive if I do the same things in visual, so I decided show the front part(how the dealing with these emotion alone)as the visual/story in the video, and the other half ( the friends' support) is already told in the song.
At first, I did some brainstorming with clients, and see what kinds of story that they wanted to see in the video. Rather than using humans, clients preferred animals as the main object in the story ,to create more symbolic tragedy that happened in real life. I suggest using wolf as our main character, and I would like to use something dreamy, or blur the boundary between reality or fantasy, to help the main character(human) to get through the trauma of losing his father. One of the functions of having a dream is helping ourselves to process what we met/ our emotions that we had in the daytime. So butterflies appear in the story. They could be related to Zhuangzi and his butterfly dream (莊周夢蝶), as the main idea of the story, and the butterflies also represented friends and friends' support.
very raw draft that I drew when I was thinking about the shots
BACKGROUND DESIGN
But what is the video should looks like? Moon night? Of course. Near by the sea? Of course. And the first pictures from my brain is Land of the Lustrous (寶石之國) or Princess Mononoke (幽靈公主), I want to create similar atmosphere, so I drafted the first scene of the story (also the environment shot).
then I re-fined it, and tried to paint it with heavy paint like oil painting because what I think it should be like:
while I was still working on pre- production, I made some gif for the clients to promote their song on spotify, so I tried to working on other environment like the wood scene:
while the production is going on, I decided to simplify the half of the scenes for saving times, so I re-drawn some background.
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CHARACTER DESIGN
while the production is going on, I decided to simplify the half of the scenes for saving times, so I re-drawn some background.
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SHOT
there are some shots that I done and picked so far:
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