character profile

This is my first drawing of my character Adrestia the Goddess of Revenge and also drawn different outfits that she would wear first one her old Ancient Greece armour and then another in her school uniform i also drawn several emotions and faces to get a more better picture with her character and personality.

Then i also had a try using photoshop to colour in one of the frame shots that i would be using for my production and also to see if it would be an good atempt to colour in my animation but depending on my time with the drawings and also time to develop the voices and script for the characters. This was my first time in colouring my animation on photoshop and use the software for this idea.

 Adrestia character profile

  coloured page

stop motion drawings inspirations

Along with researching greek mythology for my synopsis learning about different stop motion with using the same technique that i will use will also help learn to improve on my techniques and also to get a better understanding with each video and it is presented.

Take On Me - A-Ha is one of the best examples to describe about stop motion and also about drawings converting into the video and also how it changed from a stop motion world and bringing it into another world this was brought out in the 1980s. This music video features the band in a penicl-sketch animation called rotoscoping  but it is also combine with live-action.

Calling Out Your Name - Darren Hayman and Emmy The Great is another example which also brings out the pencil-sketch animation but it completely different from the take on me video this one is mostly based on drawing a picture and then changing every picture and even put colours on it telling us a story behind each shot this video was using only one card that was constantly scanned in between each shot with drawing and erasing and painting over and over again. this has helped me to learn to have a better understanding with the amount of time and scanning to also prepare to create a music video.

Inspirations

I been watching many films which has Greek Mythology and also some animations to help me research and gain more ideas and also what sort of design the Greeks have and even films that are relevent to Modern daytime and ancient Greece time which has helped me gained a more understanding for each film.

 Gladiator

 Hercules

 Percy Jackson and the lighting theif

 Wonder Woman

 Xena warrior Princess

Clash of the Titans

Research Development

To also help me improve on my research about Greek Mythology i decided to look further into my research and ask for professors and many museums and to ask them to send me any information about the Anicent Greek Gods and also any information about there Greek children and also any pictures and so recently sent out emails to each one explaining who iam and what iam planning to do with the research so far i already got an email back National Archaeological Museum in Greece and The Director of the National Archaeological Museum Dr. Nikolaos Kaltsas was very helpful to me by answering my email and also helping where to look for any information with the new research i was able to find i found the research more enjoyable and more interesting as i look at many of the myths and legends i became more intrigue by it and found this research very useful and gave me lots of inspirations for my final major project.

here is the reply that i have recieve from them

National Archaeological Museum
1 Tositsa Street
Athens 10682, Greece
Tel. 0030 210 8217724
Fax 0030 210 8213573
Information: El. Vlachogianni

                                                                   Prot.No. 4100


SUBJECT: Information about Ancient Greek Mythology

Dear Mrs Higginson,

In reply to your e-mail, dated 27/4/2011, we would like to inform you that for further information about Ancient Greek Mythology you should search easily in the website http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/. Additionally a “holly book” for archaeologists and historians is the LIMC = LEXICON ICONOGRAPHICUM MYTHOLOGIAE CLASSICAE, Zürich – München 1981-, which is a fully illustrated thesaurus of ancient myths and their protagonists.

Yours sincerely,


The Director of the National Archaeological Museum
Dr. Nikolaos Kaltsas



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Από: Rebecca Higginson [coolzonebecks@hotmail.co.uk]
Αποστολή: Τετάρτη, 27 Απριλίου 2011 4:31 μμ
Προς: Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Αθηνών
Θέμα: More information about Ancient Greek Mythology

Dear,

Dr Nikolaos Kaltsas

My name is Rebecca Higginson, I am a Film student at Blackburn College in Lancashire, England. I am creating an animation in the style of Manga based on the Ancient Greek Mythology. I am looking for some more information about the Ancient Greek Mythology, and if you could help me by forwarding some information and images I would be honoured.

I am keen on finding out more information about the Greek Goddess' and Gods:

 Adrestia who is the goddess of revenge and daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ,
 The Ancient Gods (e.g Zeus, hades and poseidon) ,
Myths and Mythical Creatures ,

I hope you can help me,
Thankyou,
Rebecca

(Blackburn College Student, Foundation Art and Deisgn, Media, Level 3)

Storyline

recently i have been looking for more information about myths and legends and also decided to have only one charactor in the synopsis so that it would be better to know more about her and also to explain her story so after hard considerations of the two charactors i have decided to go along with Adrestia Goddess of Revenge because in my own opinion i would believe that she would be a good idea for the story and since her powers of revenge hopefully create a story to which how her powers can become godly and also what sort of distructive power she will have too.also been sorting out the storyline too by starting off with a beginning , middle and end and also been drafting out charactors and also sorting out what she is going to wear also been looking researching along with greek mythology strong women charactors and been using examples such as Xena Warrior Princess, Wonder Woman and also been looking at many films which has involved in somewhat greek mythology but also in animation Wonder Woman, Hercules, Clash of the Titans and Gladiators but also been going into more depth with the amount of research and also discovering that many researchers do believe that Adrestia is also Nemesis another Goddess except she has more power and more titles if not also but also some also say that they are identical too but with this research it has helped me gained more knowledge and more inspiration for my animation project.

Research

finally had found a basic idea which i hope will be progressing i have decided to research about greek mythology especially about the Greek Gods.Found interesting stories about the greek gods and also i thought about looking more into there children there wasn't that much information about them especially in the books too but i got a basic idea so far it involves two girls living in modern daytime until they have discovered that they are not normal children but instead the children of Greek Gods Macaria (Goddess of Blessed Death) - daughter of Hades, and Persephone. Adrestia (Goddess of Revenge) - daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. i thought about the characters but i still need to think of how to bring them together and would they fight against each other or worked together to stop an greater evil from takeing over the world and cause destruction along it's path. But today been thinking what sort of personality they each have and also what do they look like and what will they wear? and will they have weapons or not? i need to think of a main plot and too make sure it dosen't give away too much of the story.

Presentation

had two basics ideas for my final major project of what i wanted to create. For my first idea i thought about doing an music video with a story to match up with the lyrics and too make it emotional. for my second idea i thought about doing an trailor/proposal about an animation film where there be lots of action and excitement and also will use colour into it after presenting the ideas i got good feedback and also i decided to choose my second idea because it something new and challenging and will help me gain my abilities but i needed to find a new source something which noone hasn't done yet and so i been researching different backgrounds with the Egyptians gods, greek gods and also religion i decided to look more into the greek gods and do a story there so far there are lots of different myths and stories between them and also the family tree so the more i read into it the more interesting each stories is so far im thinking about the story about hade daughter and persephone (macaria) but she set in the modern times but although this idea worries me because it similar to percy jackson and the lightning thief so might to need to do some more thinking on that one.