This thing doesn’t seem to like me, but here’s rough dragon sketch, yes?

Hey guys i have a problem with Adobe flash. I seem to not be able to reinstall it. It says that a component cannot install. I have done heaps of research with websites such as these ones = http://blog.flexuous.com/2007/07/20/adobe-cs3-install-hell/ and http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401401. In the process of attempting to fix this problem i have became a big nerd. Anyway this is another set back that i shall overcome by resetting the whole computer.

Well, lets see if this works, ey?

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Because I’m mildly obsessed with squirrels. Well, that and this idea was buzzing around my head this morning.

An Opening!

Starts off with a close up shot of idealic looking country sort of scene with a great big tree, long gross, some nuts and a little squirrel gathering them (Through this you’ve got your first production credits and such appearing). It grabs a couple and then scampers up the tree, stopping on one of the higher branches and looking out over sunrise/clouds/prettysky/etcetc.. When suddenly there’s a big WHOOSH! And zooming out there’s a dragon flying overhead that’s just bent the tree a little, sending the squirrel scurrying and revealing more of the world to the viewer. The tree is actually only one of a couple on a little island of land floating in the sky.. The camera continues to follow the dragon as it flies on through the sky towards big gloomy castle/fortress thing int he distance (presumbably the badguy’s hideout and all), revealing more of the skyworld and the logo for the movie. .. Or the logo’s on the first reveal of dragon/skyworld and after it’s shown we’ve got more flying dragon/hero and approaching the gloomy/doom castle/fortress.

Huzzah we have an opening! And.. a squirrel! and a dragon! and.. I think it kinda sets the mood/scene for big epic sort of thing, yeah? I wanna try storyboarding it a bit or something to get a better idea.. though i’ve got a pretty firm one stuck in my head of how this looks and.. I wanna animte the squirrel! It’s fun and irratic sort of action thing, yes.

Anyway, yes, an idea for our animation, woo!

Nikki’s Intro Idea:
kinda thinking like, idealic lil countryish setting with big tree, some grass n a squirrel, squirrel grabs nuts, goes bounding up the tree with the but, sits on the branch with it, looks over pretty sunset/sky/whateva, then biiiig whoosh of air n you zoom out for a dragon flying over head (presumbably hero n dragon or whateva) n you realise the tree’s actually one of only a few on it’s own lil floating sky island sort of thing n then camera follows the dragon as it heads through the sky towards evil castle or whateva.
i think it just kinda sets it sorta, n peaceful n slow enough to just put like, beginning titles, n once the dragon’s flown by n you realise the true setting of it you can fit in title n then get to the story proper

Nikki is making a post! Woo!

Welcome to Epic Tales at blogsome.com! The current home of all the workings of the Tale of Aerie co-production animation project for the Advanced Diploma of Multimedia (animation) at Chisholm Frankston! Nice mouthful there.. woo.

So yes. Hello from moi!