понедельник, 31 января 2011 г.

So a bit of a research.

Those are the charachters in TV series, plays, illustrations and fan art.


1. Woland:
(I personaly don't like this interpretation, the second one I mean)


This is a great one:





This is Woland and Margarita. Actually, this Woland is quite close to my personal vision:





2. Fagotto:








3. Behemoth:






















4. Azazello:














5. Margarita:







6. Master





All the Woland's company (with Hella):

вторник, 25 января 2011 г.

As I decided to change the project to my first idea, I should make a new schedule as well.

A bit about the book at first: Master and Margarita

Week 2 - this week, I should make a research on all the charachters from Master and Margarita.

Week 3 - Research as well, first attempts and ideas

Week 4 - Koroviev (Fagotto) design ("A purported "ex-choirmaster"; this may imply that Koroviev was once a member of an angelic choir. Woland's assistant, capable of creating any illusions. Unlike Behemoth and Azazello, does not use violence at any point").

Week 5 - Woland design

Week 6 - Azazello design ("A menacing, fanged and wall-eyed member of Woland's retinue, a messenger and assassin, may be one of the horsemen of the Apocalypse. Possible reference to Azazel. In the Old Testament apocryphal Book of Enoch 8:1-3, Azazel is the fallen angel who taught people to make weapons and jewelry, and taught women the "sinful art" of painting their faces. This explains Azazello giving Margarita the magical cream").

Week 7 - Cat Behemoth design ("An enormous (said to be as large as a hog) black cat, capable of standing on two legs and talking. He has a penchant for chess, vodka and pistols. In Russian, "Begemot". The word itself means hippopotamus in Russian as well as the Biblical creature. A demon in disguise, able to take human form for short time")
 
Week 8 - Margarita design ("The Master's lover. Trapped in a passionless marriage; devoted herself to The Master, who she believes is dead. Does not appear until the second half of the novel, where she serves as the hostess of Satan's Grand Ball on Walpurgis Night. She is named after Goethe's Faust's Gretchen – whose real name is Margarita – as well as Marguerite de Valois. Marguerite was the main character in an opera, Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meerbeer which Bulgakov particularly enjoyed, and a novel by Alexandre Dumas, pere, La Reine Margot. In these accounts the queen is portrayed as daring and passionate. The character was also inspired by Bulgakov's last two wives, the first of whom loved action and was physically daring, while the last was devoted to his work in the same way as Margarita is to the Master.")

Week 9 - Master design ("An author who had written a novel about the meeting of Pontius Pilate and Yeshua Ha-Nozri (Jesus of Nazareth). Put away in a psychiatric clinic, where Bezdomny meets him. Very little is known about this character's past other than that he had no point in his life until he finally met Margarita").

Brief descriptions taken from the wikipedia.

суббота, 22 января 2011 г.












All the collages by Max Ernst



So this is the list of engravings I can use:

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12
13
14
15  - have doubts about it
16 - unicorn
17
18 - manticora
19 - man's eye
20 - horse
21 - rhino
22
23 - Jesus again
24 - another manticora
25
26 - lions
27 - lion and mouse
28 - lucifer
29 - one more
30
31
32
33 - again lucifer
34
35
36
37
38

All of them are big, so I just leave links to them here.

This is it for the moment. If I will need some particular elements - I will search for them.

I realised, that there should be no obvios plot, just symbolism in the animatiom, just like in Max Ernst's roman-collages.
I will post few of them in next message. For inspiration.

вторник, 18 января 2011 г.

Week 2 - ideas and concepts

The week is almost finished but I haven't chosen yet between two of ideas that came to my mind.

One of those ideas was to design main charachters for a cartoon series based on Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". I am really interested in charachter design, and my friend wanted me to design those charachters, but I will make it anymay, no matter if I have Cultyral Interpretation class or not.
The second concept was more inspiring, but also more difficult. I am fond of engravings as well as of Max Ernst's idea of roman-collage. He created stories by collaging victorian engravings to get a truly surrealistic piece. I would like to create a simple layer animation based on this idea.
I suppose that if I will be able to produce an interesting plot, this animation could be an expression of my inner visions - and it would be perfect. I wanted to make something really mine for a very long time.

I plan to use  basicly Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier to finalize the project. I'm not sure what the resolution and other aspects will be, as well as I don't know the plot yet, but I'll work on it.

Plan:
Week 2 - idea designed. It would be realy great if I could create a plot. But for sure I should collect all the engravings I could use. Actually I have already scanned them, but that is not so usefull without a story.
Week 3 - plot finished, quick storyboard should be made. Also I should think about the soundtrack.
Week 4 - working process with layers in photoshop should be started.
Week 5 - working process with layers
Week 6 - presentation. I should have all the materials for the animation at this point.
Week 7 - animating
Week 8 - animating, finalizing in Premier
Week 9 - finalization.

This is it. Hope I won't be disappointed that I chose this concept...