Narrative
By the small pond there was a tree with lush green leaves. Two leaves are chatting in a windy afternoon.
One asked the other: "What will happen after we fell from the tree?" The other replies: "Well there has
to be a place where all our fallen friends rejoice."
"But how can you be sure?" says the other. "None of them ever come back to tell the tale."
"If there was no life after this, where were we before this present life? As we venture into the unknown, we need to keep our faith in the hope for a better life, as we live the fullest."
A gust swept past the garden and both the leaves fell down. As they were falling down, they remembered their earlier conversation and together they prayed and hoped for the best.
They felt a cooling sensation as they hear the chattering and laughters of their old friends getting louder and louder. Silently, they rested on the surface of the pond, with many other fellow leaves from the tree.
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Process
Sketch and Test Model
Material: Acetate, Coloured cards, Greyboard and Papers
4 subjects form the composition: the Tree, the Gust, the Pond and the Leaves.
The foreground are the greenery and the Tree, with soft and flowing motives representing the gust and the water movement in the pond.
The background would be the pond with leaves on the surface.
I am thinking of using cutouts from the photos (resembling leaves) and sandwich them with acetate.
The centre piece is nothing but the acetate and leaves to gives the weightlessness sensation of the leaves.
To do's:
- the Pond ( Leaves paper cutouts and acetate )
- more greenery (more layers) for the background
Close-up's
Where is the fantasy? Your 3d tests are looking good, but you’re missing that element of surprise and wonder. The wind has been thought of as a character/ personality in many traditional fairy tales, there are many references that you can look up to help you build some more depth and fantasy into your story. What is the dominant element of your narrative, there is no bigger picture, the story is too bland, all the elements complacent. Maybe the magical element is that some of the leaves get transformed into something else (like the vortex portal you were sketching before) before they hit the water.
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