Brief record of facts, topics and thoughts:
Here is a few little facts, and thoughts in which I have picked up throughout this one project.
- The German word for a Flip book is daumenkino which translates to "thumb cinema".
- Onion Skinning: Onion skinning is a 2D computer graphic term for a technique used in creating animated cartoons and / or editing movies to see several frames at once. This way, the animator or editor can make decisions on how to create or change an image based on the previous image in the sequence. This is like in Photoshop however, it is Opacity.
- GIF animations - GIF is a type of file format, used for small, light weight animations with no more than a few frames. (Click image below to see full animation)
- Stop motion or frame-by-frame animation is a technique where a real object is manually adjusted between individual frames and shifted by small amounts so that the animation gives the impression of continuous movement when it is connected. The main advantage of this technique is that it is possible to animate almost anything. The disadvantage of this technique is that it is extremely time consuming.
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- Multiplane (Camera): A set up of layers of glass above a table that allows a rostrum camera to travel a significant distance, pulling focus as the camera 'tracks in'. This is used to achieve a feeling of depth, i.e. background, middle ground, foreground. A famous example of a Multiplane Shot is the opening scene of “Bambi”.
- A rostrum camera is a special type of camera used to film 2D cel animation, one frame at a time. The camera is mounted on a column, and frames of animation are placed in front of it and captured one at a time.
- After Effects animation - usually means either cut outs done in After Effects, or animation done with the program's Puppet Tool
- Looking on Google for The Tale of The Three Brothers, I came across this. This is a song which has been based around the tale and I found this was quite intriguing and really different,
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Death: (The Tale of the Three Brothers)
- Death was a character used by Beedle the Bard in his famous tales. In this story, he was the one who witnessed the three Peverell brothers defy him by successfully crossing a deadly and dangerous river using magic. He was upset because he could not take them for his own, so he offered to give each brother an artifact of great power. The Peverell brothers chose the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility. These items later became known as the Deathly Hallows. - Death is a minor antagonist featured in the last of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, The Tale of the Three Brothers. In the story, the three Peverell brothers (Antioch, Cadmus, and Ignotus) are featured out travelling the world, when at twilight they came to a treacherous river, one that had been known to claim many lives when attempting to cross it. The Peverells, who were powerful wizards, merely whipped out their wands and created a bridge out of thin air, and casually began to cross the river, when they were met by a black hooded figure midway across, blocking their path. - This figure was none other than Death himself, who is outraged that he has been cheated out of new victims, due to their magical abilities, and equally enraged that he cannot take them as his own. But Death was cunning and pretended to congratulate the brothers on being powerful enough to elude him, before offering each of them a prize for their skill. When Death made it clear that he would not let the brothers pass across the bridge without him fulfilling each of their personal desires, the wizarding siblings decided to go along with Death's offer, but each for different motives and reasons. Death proceeded to give the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility to each of the brothers, a collection of items that would come to be known in time as the Deathly Hallows. - Secretly each of these objects was part of an elaborate scheme devised by Death to reclaim each of the brothers as his own. Indeed, as the story progressed, each of the brothers in turn lost his life at the indirect hands of his own gift (Antioch being murdered due to the lust created by the Elder Wand, and Cadmus having committed suicide upon seeing the Resurrection Stone's limitations), restoring to Death's clutches two of his victims. - However, the Cloak of Invisibility enabled Ignotus to elude Death for a good many years, and finally when he had reached a ripe old age and lived a happy, long life, he took off the Cloak, gave it to his son, and departed the "mortal coil" with Death as an old friend, but on his own terms and not those of Death. |
Physical Appearance:- In Beedle the Bard's story, Death was described as an
imposing hooded figure - this motif is typical for many depictions of death in
literature: a skeletal figure garbed in an ancient dark robe, minus the scythe.
It was stated in the story that he also has wings that he can retract from his
attire as a means of flight so he could stalk on his victims.
Personality and Traits:- Death is portrayed as a character who does not like to be on the losing side of anything (which makes sense as he is DEATH, he is inevitable, he is supposed to be on the winning side as it is the natural order of things). However, as was said in the tale, he was cunning enough to acknowledge the difficulty in claiming the lives of those who can call upon magic to their aid (as the Peverells have done when they summoned the bridge over the river), and because of that, he was willing to pull off a ruse of friendship by offering the brothers their personal desires, intending to use such endeavors for his own ends and beat the brothers in their own game. He is shown to be angered when anyone eludes him, denying him his fresh victims, and he is described as having "grudgingly" given Ignotus his own Cloak of Invisibility, knowing that he has probably been outsmarted by the most benevolent brother.
- In both instances, he is described as being agitated when he feels he has been cheated or beaten at his own game (in this case being outsmarted by Ignotus). He is also shown to be a very cunning character, plotting an elaborate scheme using the Deathly Hallows to reclaim each of the brothers for himself. - However, he is not beyond being outwitted, as demonstrated when Ignotus sees through his façade and turns his scheme on its head, by asking for something that would make it impossible for him to be followed by Death. - It was also stated by Ron that Death occasionally gets tired after stalking his targets for so long, especially if they see him coming; which is why he relies on his Cloak of Invisibility to sneak up on them unawares. |