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December 1st, 2005, 05:58 PM
Hi guys. Bored to just work around without a real porpouse, we decided to exercise our imagination and skills on a cinematic. So we gathered a handfull of artists and we started working... I've come up with a script and started working on the concepts, the 3d artists started modeling them. But soon I've realized that, being the only 2d artist on the team, I can't handle all the aspects of the 2d preproduction. So I came here to ask you guys help. We need a few talented people to help us (well, more like me because I'm busting my back :D) with some aspects related to painting textures and matte paintings. So, if there is any of you here who would like to spend some time working on this project, please give a link to your work and state the time you can alocate to this. So, without further of my garruality, here is some sneak pic into what we're trying to do, keeping in mind that we want some blizzardish quality to all this.
I post here some of the script and some character concepts I've done.
Cinematic
Story
The Twilight of the Gods has come to pass... And from the broken sky rains with heroes, blood and shards of heaven. The Spine of the World has shattered; a sound like the death howl of a thousand demons passed like a wave of darkness over the world of Man. World upon world collapses.
Upon Bifrost, the heavenly bridge, surviving gods are walking towards another realm. Long lines of shining Lords in their clothing of Power. In the deserted Midgard starts snowing; Finbulwetter, The Long Winter is at hand. And over all this, like a bad omen, Naglfar, the black ship of the death godess, flies slowly.
Cinematic
Visual description
The cinematic starts with a camera fading out on a small, aparently deserted viking village. The voice of the story teller goes, wispering („The Twilight of the Gods has come to pass”...). Short flashes show us a huge wolf (Fenrir), swallowing a old warrior with a spear (Odhin). Black screen again and again the flash of an image with a wild Thor brandishing his mighty hammer and hitting in an explosion of lightning. Black screen again and the ugly face of an undead hissing at the viewer. Black screen. The wispered and withered of a dying old man tells the story (The Spine of the World has shattered; a sound like the death howl of a thousand demons passed like a wave of darkness...). The camera rises from the deserted village on a burning pine forest. The sky is ripped appart by vortexes through which rains human bodies, pillars and walls of stone and long waterfalls of lava. Flashes mummbles through the clouds swirling around the vortexes. Everything looks blue and cold... Snow flakes rarely pass before the camera. Near the camera a long pillar is falling crashing in the woods underneath. The camera rises. It rains broken shields, swords and banners. A banner falls infront of the camera, covering it. Tranzition.
The camera slides upon the black prow of a drakkar. It looks like is made from scales but infact those are nails, thousand and thousand of dark nails of those dead without a burrial ritual. The camera rises while the ship passes. A ghost passes infront of the camera wailling. Shields with human faces ripped from the skulls are attached to its sides. The camera goes on deck. Close to the bord, there is a headless undead. A crow is picking on his neck. He keeps his head in his hand, attached by some leather string. Hooks bite in his back, hooks with long chains finished in heavy weights. Because „the murderer shall carry the weight of his sin” especially after death.
The camera passes further and there is another undead hissing at it. Many more other swing slowly on the background.
The camera goes around the mast. Half of a body is crawling on deck, its back full of arrows. On the port of the ship you can see the silhouette of a nacked woman. The hair, long to her calfs, is half white, half black. The camera closes to her, circles her unveiling the cold beauty of her face, her blue eye inexpresivly watching into the horizont while the camera still circles unveilling her other half, a skeletic half, flesh dried upon dried muscles and bones, hidouse, with a round, lidless, black eye starring. The eye rolls watching directly into the objectif of the camera, the camera plunges into its darkness.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Helja-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Naglfar-concept-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Undead-1-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Undead-2-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Odhin.jpg
Enjoy!
I post here some of the script and some character concepts I've done.
Cinematic
Story
The Twilight of the Gods has come to pass... And from the broken sky rains with heroes, blood and shards of heaven. The Spine of the World has shattered; a sound like the death howl of a thousand demons passed like a wave of darkness over the world of Man. World upon world collapses.
Upon Bifrost, the heavenly bridge, surviving gods are walking towards another realm. Long lines of shining Lords in their clothing of Power. In the deserted Midgard starts snowing; Finbulwetter, The Long Winter is at hand. And over all this, like a bad omen, Naglfar, the black ship of the death godess, flies slowly.
Cinematic
Visual description
The cinematic starts with a camera fading out on a small, aparently deserted viking village. The voice of the story teller goes, wispering („The Twilight of the Gods has come to pass”...). Short flashes show us a huge wolf (Fenrir), swallowing a old warrior with a spear (Odhin). Black screen again and again the flash of an image with a wild Thor brandishing his mighty hammer and hitting in an explosion of lightning. Black screen again and the ugly face of an undead hissing at the viewer. Black screen. The wispered and withered of a dying old man tells the story (The Spine of the World has shattered; a sound like the death howl of a thousand demons passed like a wave of darkness...). The camera rises from the deserted village on a burning pine forest. The sky is ripped appart by vortexes through which rains human bodies, pillars and walls of stone and long waterfalls of lava. Flashes mummbles through the clouds swirling around the vortexes. Everything looks blue and cold... Snow flakes rarely pass before the camera. Near the camera a long pillar is falling crashing in the woods underneath. The camera rises. It rains broken shields, swords and banners. A banner falls infront of the camera, covering it. Tranzition.
The camera slides upon the black prow of a drakkar. It looks like is made from scales but infact those are nails, thousand and thousand of dark nails of those dead without a burrial ritual. The camera rises while the ship passes. A ghost passes infront of the camera wailling. Shields with human faces ripped from the skulls are attached to its sides. The camera goes on deck. Close to the bord, there is a headless undead. A crow is picking on his neck. He keeps his head in his hand, attached by some leather string. Hooks bite in his back, hooks with long chains finished in heavy weights. Because „the murderer shall carry the weight of his sin” especially after death.
The camera passes further and there is another undead hissing at it. Many more other swing slowly on the background.
The camera goes around the mast. Half of a body is crawling on deck, its back full of arrows. On the port of the ship you can see the silhouette of a nacked woman. The hair, long to her calfs, is half white, half black. The camera closes to her, circles her unveiling the cold beauty of her face, her blue eye inexpresivly watching into the horizont while the camera still circles unveilling her other half, a skeletic half, flesh dried upon dried muscles and bones, hidouse, with a round, lidless, black eye starring. The eye rolls watching directly into the objectif of the camera, the camera plunges into its darkness.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Helja-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Naglfar-concept-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Undead-1-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Undead-2-Concept.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/Avatarr/Odhin.jpg
Enjoy!