LEAP OF FAITH

Textures

These Textures are before they have been edited to look worn out and subdued colours - water colour style.
Sky

Bark

Painted wood effect

Texture for bird house etc

Bush

For basket

Rocks and path etc

Path texture

Leaves

window

Tiles

For inside roof

for shelves

For stairs

For lecturn

Lecturn

Librarians cusian is made of this leather chesterfield style. Sits on the shelf to her work.

Leather for books

Grass

Barrrel

Apples

inspiration for environments

Falling leaf footage

The leaves are falling, falling as from way off,

as though far gardens withered in the skies;

they are falling with denying gestures.

And in the nights the heavy earth is falling

from all the stars down into loneliness.

We are falling. This hand falls.

And look at others: It is in them all.

And yet there is one who holds this falling

endlessly gently in his hands."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Philospher, Lecturer, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he desseminated his thought through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.

This is a beautiful piece of poetry and feel very appropriate to my animation especially the opening scene. I want the animation to feel autumnal and a feel for the simplicity of nature as it plays with the season...

I wrote a poem to symbolise the beauty of Autumn...

I love autumn.......

The blessings of harvest.

The slow transition from summer to autumn.

Nature at its brilliance.....

Courageous colours of joy and plentitude perform its dance of joy and glory.

The season turn puts on its coat of honour and perform a dance of thankfulness and glory.

The touch of dew in the morning gliding gently like a silent visitor.

The sun slowly seeping out of its thick blanket of fog that covers the landscape.

The nimble folly of a fox runs across the road into dense woods...

Adorned with the rich smells of fungi and empowered with the bird songs alive with the movement of foraging and preparation for the cold to come...

Autumn is my favourite time of the year...

Outside the garden path will be covered with leaves and the old eccentric librarian will be sweeping the leaves of the path. Slight sound of a whistling wind and the brushing of the leaves. As she is old the work is slow but eventually she finishes it and looks up to the sky in gratitude and takes a gasp of breath content and happy that it is done. She turns then walks to the house.

Inspiration for Eccentric Librarian and Owly

Owl Inspiration

Owl character of Bubu in Clash of the Titans. The owl switches from stop-motion figure and a mechanical puppet creation of effects technician Colin Chilvers. Bubu is used in Clash of the Titans when Zeus declares that Athena must give Perseus her beloved pet owl. Used as a helper. Pretty much what I wanted for my owl character used as the Librarians conciousness.
Soren is a young, adventurous barn owl who loves hearing stories from his father, Noctus, about the legend of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole', a legendary alliance of owls that are sworn to protect the Kingdom of GA'Hoole.

Eccentric Librarian Inspiration

Wendy Froud

An american doll-artist, sculptor, and puppet-maker, best known for her work creating creatures for the Jim Henson films The dark Crystal and labyrinth.

Illustrations are by Jean Baptiste Monge. I love the fairy/ ethereal quality of his illustrations. Jean Baptiste Monge is a French fantasy illustrator with a specialty in portraying the world of faeries, elves, goblins and related faerie folk.

Monges illustrations are extremely detailed and have a texture quality and subdued colour palette. suited to his portrayal of the denizens of the unseen world at our feet and the edges of our vision in lives of miniature on the forest floor.

I have been transfixed with this style of illustration and environment since I was a child and remeber often picking up books such as Beatrix Potter with its beautifully illustrated drawings of a world of enchantment and ethereal quality.