February 2012
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Prologue
Eight immortal spirits desired to create the perfect being. Two gave it life and immortality. Four gave it the control over the elements. One gave the gift of logic & reason. And the last spirit, Esu, gave the gift of death. Angered in this imperfection, the other 7 spirits came together and sealed Esu away, hidden within the world. The world was then divided among the spirits to rule. All...
“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
“Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy...”
– Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays And Reflections
“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for...”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you...”
– Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
“Increasingly, I realized that I could not merely tell his story. Rather, I would...”
– Ronald Steel
“We are the first generation bombarded with so many stories from so many...”
– —Sam Keen
“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.”
– Joseph Campbell, Mythologist (via storytellingquotes)
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Watch021212 Animatic, Some animation in the beginning, with no transitions. Changed some of the ending frames.
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Prologue re-writes
(still having trouble fine tuning that last line, but want to show that what Esu left behind was a curse and it relates to the mask and the earrings of his and it is a power that Oyo would need to fight the true evil/antagonist of the story)
In a world of chase and darkness, evil spirits have used you humans as slaves. The spirit Esu had a mysterious power over death and fortune. And he was...
The intro, and the music perhaps for the...
January 2012
34 posts
bg sketches
from Monica Ramos
New Revisions
Prologue// seen in a somewhat ink and silhouette style minimal color.
In a world of chaos and darkness, it was said the spirit Esu was the cause of this evil. He had a mysterious power over death and fortune. Out of the 9 great spirits, I was chosen to kill him. I searched for him, but Esu disappeared without a trace. Inside his temple I found he left two treasures. Chaos still remained, an evil...
More
Not final, more experiments.
Some Experiments
1/18/12
Initial Background Sketches
more dope sounds from Lord Davis, ambient....
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some more sounds, basically the sounds you hear...
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Shot03
woooorkinonit making experiments
Dream State Version 2.
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Shot 02
some of the rough animation for it
Just got some sounds from Mr. Bryant Davis. ill...
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Shot 01
Very rough animation. Still thinking of changing the dialogue to fit the imagery.