STORYBOARD PICS

A boy peers over a glowing box of tin soldiers as it opens and emits a distinct golden glow.  *He gasps* and takes it to the counter

The boy arranges the tin soldiers in lines of 6 upon a desk, noticing that one has a broken leg and throwing it across the desks surface.  The unfinished soldier (as if magnetic) springs upright stilted upon its singular leg. a bright glare hits the eyes of the soldier, peering across the room it notices a paper ballerina near a window whos spangle is glimmering in the sunlight.  *A smile passes its somewhat motionless corpse*  A troll spy's upon this unspoken contact between the soldier and the ballerina.  *The troll emits ferocious growl*

Night passes, the soldier awakes.  *a panicked expression arrises* as the soldier finds itself falling from the windowsil. To beady eyes appear from the darkness of the enclosed room, suggestably the troll.

The soldier find itself upon the road where two kids joyfully kick around a worn soccer-ball, they spot the soldier and place him upon a handcrafted paper oragami boat adn set him in a flowing stream of water.  *the soldiers face remains expressionless*  the boat then passes into the depths of a drain upon the curb.

The paper boat falls apart as it passes throught thes running waters and the soldier is washed upon a shore of rubbish and sewage. This is when a menacing sewer rat emerges to imply a passing toll upon the soldier.  As the soldier stands there clueless and in a position of disadvatage, the rat snatches a piuece of cheese that had been scewered to his gun on passing throught the rapid waters of the sewer. the rat allows him passage. 

Moments later the soldier is snatched out of the water by a ferocious fish.

In succession the fish is washed into a lake and is caught by a local fisherman and his son. Coincedently the son is the previously owner of the soldier and his dad finds it inside the fish when he cuts it open for dinner, The father then hands the soldier to the son incase the kid found some form of interest.   *the childs face snarls in disgust*

The soldier is taken to the childs room in which he is reunited with his love, the ballerina.

This reunion however is cut short when the kid snatche the soldier and throws him thrust into the furnace. At this moment the paper ballerina is caught by a drapht and is blown into the fire with him. The two figures melt into one and form the shape of a heart.

 

 

 

 

 THE END

StoryBoard - Hans Christian Andersen. 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'

PLOT

On his birthday, a boy receives a set of 25 toy soldiers and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg, having been the last one cast from an old tin spoon. Nearby, he spies a paper ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She too is standing on one leg and the soldier falls in love. That night, a troll among the toys angrily warns the soldier to take his eyes off the ballerina, but the soldier ignores him. The next day, the soldier falls from a windowsill (presumably the work of the troll) and lands in the street. Two boys find the soldier, place him in a paper boat, and set him sailing in the gutter. The boat and its passenger wash into a storm drain, where a rat demands the soldier pay a toll. Sailing on, the boat is washed into a canal, where the tin soldier is swallowed by a fish. When the fish is caught and cut open, the tin soldier finds himself once again on the table top before the ballerina. Inexplicably, a boy throws the tin soldier into the fire. A wind blows the ballerina into the fire with him; she is consumed at once but her spangle remains. The tin soldier melts into the shape of a heart.

INK drawing of the tales premise.

 I chose to do this tale as the basis for my storyboard as i found it could be related most effectively to my hand-drawn greylead style. (continue)

WE COME IN PEACE. my design brief.

Over the last few weeks NASA (a company whom produces and carry's out all of the scientific space projects such as the moon landing) has been trying to come up with an effective approach to the idea of communicating with aliens located inside the milky way but have been producing ineffective results. In result, they have contacted me and asked if I could create for them a series of pictographic messages that could display a simple greeting in which these life forms could recognize. 

We have been chosen to design this because we have the means and the ability to think outside of the box. Considering that these 'aliens' have no visual reference to anything homo sapian, we must speak to them using the general definitions of shapes and forms. These images are to be designed to confront the aliens with a non-threatening inviting and informative presence. The image has been advised to have a somewhat lack of colour unless necessary eg. (to create emphasis on a key part of the project) but otherwise shall consist of none but thick blacks and creamy whites. Currently Mendecco Designs is creating a similar logo for an independent group whom holds the same ideals and expectations as NASA and are in co-operation with the two projects. We have a deadline of 2 week due to this as the projects conflict and NASA has been strictly advised to use the more beneficial and effective pictograph.

Our audience is quite the unusual one as the normal groups of age and society can be referenced to stereotypical response, but the audience being that of the alien kind gives more of a spontaneous and perhaps falsely influenced approach. We have to take in all accounts of these alien life forms for example they mightn't be visually abled relying on scent and touch to navigate or they might be prone to aggressive behaviour and as such the image must be perfectly channelled to their temperament. Due to all of these unknown factors, we must approach a more moderate and less radical influence in accordance to our already considered knowledge of these life forms. 

The whole aim of this project is to greet whom ever might be out there and incite a friendly response whether they be intellectual or merely animalistic space inhabitants. In reference to these aims we are to create these pictographs to be as universally understandable as possible and to be unrelated to any human cultures or activities yet to show us to be a life form in relation to any other. In the long run the image is aimed to be a simple black and white 6 by 6 metre cube image that defines these aims and the purpose of this project.

(NASA's default template.)

Paul Klee. 'A Dot That Went For A Walk'.

More Drawings (if youre interested)

Hvass & Hannible

Originally this was in a power-point but I figured i would upload it to my blog so if people were interested they could have a peek.

Illustrator Heart Design.

  

 I pretty much hate illustrator and find it to be a useless program for anything apart from cool and interesting texts. This project was probably the most difficult in relation again to the lack of access to ADOBE CS5 programs, but with alot of work and many tedious steps i managed to create this. :/

 

 

 

 

 

Then with some extra work i created this...

All together i find the illustrator system to be far more complicated that it need be and would far prefer using Adobe Flash to draw images as it is based solely on the use of an effective and easy to use brush tool.