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My second idea is a collection of short animations/gifs. To get some more inspiration, I looked into short anime gifs. After looking into them, I decided that if I did go with this idea I would create 3 short gifs about 3 different nightmares I’ve had. I did some quick sketches to get a briefContinue reading “Major Project_Idea 2”

My first idea is a game trailer in which my characters will be a part of. To get some more inspiration, I looked into anime game trailers. After looking into them, I decided that if I did create my own game trailer it would be for a ‘who done it?’ game. I recently had aContinue reading “Major Project_Idea 1”

Ibaru no ou (2010) “Japan cryo-preserves a select group of patients to save humanity when a virus turns people into stone. Kasumi, one of the chosen ones, wakes up after years of being frozen in the midst of total chaos where monstrous creatures lie in wait all around.” Deadman Wonderland (2011) “Ganta’s life is quicklyContinue reading “Anime references”

Howls moving castle is about Sophie befriending a wizard named Howl who lives in a magical flying castle. The evil witch of the waste takes issue with their budding relationship and places a spell on Sophie which ages her prematurely. Howl now has to use his magical talents to battle the witch and return SophieContinue reading “Howls Moving Castle (2004)”

Spirited away is about 10 year old Chihiro and her parents stumbling upon an ‘abandoned’ amusement park. While looking around, her parent are turned into giant pigs. Chihiro meets Haku who explains that the park is for supernatural beings taking a break in the earthly realm. He tells her that in order for her parentsContinue reading “Spirited away (2001)”

In order to get accustomed to dark anime styles, I started to look into films made by Studio Ghibli; the first of which was princess mononoke. Princess Mononoke is about a boy named Ashitaka. Ashitaka is infected by an animal and begins to seek a cure from the God Shishigami. When he is on thisContinue reading “Princess Mononoke (1997)”

During last weeks group tutorial, I was advised to try out scary character designs in moving images. I was really stuck on how to go about this, so I decided to look into imagery based on folklore from around the world. Bakhtak (Persia) Bakhtak (which means small fortune) is a creature which sits on aContinue reading “Folklore”

Amy’s Choice is the seventh episode in the fifth season of Doctor Who. It follows the eleventh doctor, Amy and Rory as they constantly switch between 2 ‘realities’ trying to figure out which one is real and which one is a dream. The first reality takes place in 2015. Amy and Rory are married andContinue reading “Amy’s Choice (Doctor Who- 2010)”

Metropolis is a science fiction film by Fritz Lang. This film isn’t directly related to nightmares however, the plot of the film has a nightmarish dystopian feel. Metropolis touches on the loss of humanity through different classes. The working class seems to have lost their humanity by becoming part of the machine they work for.Continue reading “Metropolis (1927)”

Dreamscape is a 1984 Science fiction film by Joseph Ruben. In this movie we follow psychic protagonist Alex Gardner as he is coerced into joining a secret government project. This project is about dreams and the ability to enter them. At first, Alex is trained to do boring tasks like guessing the colour of aContinue reading “Dreamscape (1984)”