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Do You Hear Those Crows?

Do You Hear Those Crows? is a student film directed by Ryen Gobel. The inspiration is from a poem of the same name by Dalton Day. Utilizing many different mediums such as 2-D, 3-D, stop-motion downshoot, charcoal, embroidery, etc. 

The Poem

Do you hear those crows they are announcing death but the mystery is the death of what?

Let's guess.

I'll say Summer. I'll say Summer's body was finally ready to give out & go home & listen to the unnameable birds, 

birds we will never see nor hear because what are we?

I am bones. You are bones too.

You are more deliberate than I am here.

When you speak I like to listen to you because when you speakit feels like hearing a story about the first time somebody saw the ocean, no matter what you're saying.

Those crows have never seen the ocean & that in itself is its own kind of death, probably. Maybe Summer isn't dead after all.

Maybe Summer has just dug a hole in the dirt somehwere & is ready to lay down for a while & dream of all the things that happen while Summer is gone.

Bones turn into trees.

We manage to stay warm.

Wings disappear.

Style Frames

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zh_Own_Kind_Of_Death_styleframe_1.jpg

These are some proposed style frames of mine that I plan to complete with embroidery animation, and paper cut-outs.

Tests

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Embroidery Test

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Fabric swatches testing different shades of purple

Vector trees overlaying fabric image

Embroidery Animation Test

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Print out of the desert style frame with hand embroidered embellishment

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I rotoscoped a live action reference video of a crow flying and landing, then printed every frame on mulberry paper and hand embroidered them.

Animation Tests

To transition into the desert scene there is a shot of a whale in oil paint. I was in charge of coming up with a final style for this shot and tasked with the final oil paint animation on a glass multi-plane.  

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These are style frames testing different colors.

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