[BlueJump] Taking Care of Things (Gray Wing and River Ripple PMV)

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🛑 Оригинал: youtu.be/rQpN1w4CcJc
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📃 Оригинальное описание:

This old thing! I decided it's finally time to bring it over to Youtube, since I don't really use my old blog that much anymore. The music used is the latter part of “Taking Care of Things”, by Cavetown, who makes beautiful songs!

So Warriors, huh? I used to read tons of it when I was younger, but stopped for several years, and I’ve only just recently started reading it again. I picked up Dawn of the Clans, since it’s completely new to me, and it’s really good! Going through the books, some of my favorite interactions between the characters were the ones between River Ripple (the blue striped cat) and Gray Wing (the gray cat not having a good time) – their relationship is really sweet to me, and I just like the fact that River Ripple is kind of the unofficial hippie therapist of the clans. He’s just a genuinely nice dude that wants everybody to hang out on his island and feel better.

As for the animatic itself, it took some time to work out the colors and style I wanted to go with. I decided on three distinct color palettes based on the time of day – one for night, one for evening, and one for morning. A smaller detail, but you might also notice those flowers in the background at certain points – those are anemone flowers! In the book, when Turtle Tail (the tortoiseshell cat in the beginning... Who I completely forgot has a short tail, by the way) dies, it’s mentioned that she was covered in petals after falling through wildflower bushes, and I thought that that was an interesting image to work with, so I expanded on that and added the flowers in various scenes to represent suffering. I chose anemone flowers specifically because a source I saw said that they could represent forsaken love, which I think fits, but then various other sites said they meant completely different things, so I dunno.

You know, I honestly never thought this animatic would actually be a thing. It started when I found the song and thought “huh! This would fit this situation pretty well” and then escalated to “well, story-boarding it would be a fun exercise!” and then to “well, the story-board’s done, I might as well just start making complete frames and see where it goes.” And then boom. It was done. Something that I never even thought I’d start. Inspiration is a strange thing.