MMZ_TimeLord Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Excellent work... Wonderful attention to detail... you get two thumbs up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 Wow! That is one incredible scene. Great job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalemation Posted May 26, 2006 Share Posted May 26, 2006 That is just breathtaking! Incredible! Really well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel_Nash Posted May 28, 2006 Author Share Posted May 28, 2006 Thanks a lot for your comments. Here is the backgroundstory: Since his early childhood Jonathan dreams to fly. Every evening his grandma told him stories of the former times, when birds of their kind still had wings to fly. Every morning he ran outside to watch the paradise birds leaving their trees and flying to the open sea. Jonathan so much wished he could join them. As soon as he was able to hold a pencil Jonathan starts drawing all different kinds of flying machines. Unfortunately he never had the chance to build one of his inventions. One day when he was out in the forest, climbing on the huge trees, he realised tiny blue spots on the bark and when he stepped on a branch which was covered all over with this blue spots the branch suddenly breaks and Jonathan managed to grab a vein in the very last second to stop him from falling to dead. Once again he wished he could fly. Later when he told his grandma from his adventure she got very excited and ask Jonathan to bring her a piece of the bark with the blue spots. Jonathan who saw the fear in his grandma’s eyes ran as fast as he could to get a piece of the bark. When he gave it to his grandma she starts to shiver and had to sit down. It took a while until she was able to speak again. Than she told Jonathan what this blue spots are. The blue spots are the first sign of a very serious illness which affects the trees. It starts quite slow, but when not stopped in early stages it will affect the whole wood and kill all the trees in it. There is only one way to save the trees. A medicine made from the Blue Moon Leaf Flower, which was quite common is the old days but now had vanished totally from the wood. There is only on person who knows where the flower can still be found. The old hermit on stone-bridge island. But there is no other way to get there than flying and we lost this ability long time ago. Now it was Jonathan’s time to get very excited. He said to his grandma that they may not be able to fly by themselves but that he could build a machine which can do. He would just need the material which he could not afford till now. Grandma agreed with Jonathan and both went to see the tree committee to give a report of what they have discovered and asked them to help build Jonathans flying machine. It didn’t take long to persuade the committee and shortly after the work on Jonathans machine started. After three weeks of hard work the airship was finally finished. Jonathan named it after the nickname of his Grandma. It referred to the time when her feathers where still black as the night and she was know through out the wood as the “Dark Lady”. The next day, when all things Jonathan would need were brought on board The Journey Begins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhar Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 That is a promising story for an animated feature. Are you planning on animating it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 28, 2006 Admin Share Posted May 28, 2006 I love the story. It reminds me of a bird story I was working on briefly several years ago. (Around 1994 by my reckoning) Yours is much more original while mine more closely resembles that of the movie Valiant (unfortunately). I even wrote parts of a few songs (including a duet) for it. Believe me when I say this is really something for me because I don't write songs! I think it was actually inspired by 'Little Mermaid' more than anything. I recall I had a great time working on the character interaction. Digging into who they were and how they worked together in the story. Thanks for bringing that project back to my mind. Ah the memories... I hope you have plans to further illustrate 'The Journey Begins'. Personally I think it would make a great children's book. In any case... Congratulations on going final on your project! Fine work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russel_Nash Posted May 30, 2006 Author Share Posted May 30, 2006 Thank you very much. I would love to make it a feature animation. While working on this image I already had an opening shot in mind. But my animation skills a quite basic. I think I will have to concentrate on improving my animation skills before I start such a big project. Making it a children's book is also a nice idea. May be I should give it a try first. But you are right Rodney. Developing the story and the characters is really fun. For the music I think I would have to ask a friend. Russel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajcedrv Posted May 31, 2006 Share Posted May 31, 2006 This is one cool image! My only remark is posing of the characters... they should show more drama with their possing... this way, they look... well... disinterested... Other than that, no remarks! drvarceto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtone Posted June 4, 2006 Share Posted June 4, 2006 HOLY BATMAN !!! that is Awesome ..... Nice working.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
case Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 great job with the ship and the bird you are a great animator one day you will be one of the best keep it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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