A Viking Journey

Teaser Poster for a Motion Graphics project from school.

We were required to choose a movie and make a video based on it.

I chose DreamWork's "How To Train Your Dragon"
I wrote a rhyme to be appearing in the video.

once upon a time,

there was a *boy* viking
he wanted to become a *great* viking,
but his viking-*ness* was so viking-*less*,
he sometimes seemed like a pest to the rest...

this boy wanted to hunt dragons,
and take his place among the best.
everyone treated his wish like jargon,
but the boy never let his desire rest.

he once caught a mighty beast
"the unholy offspring of death and night"
and even if at first he thought it a mighty feat
he discovered he could not take the dragon's life.

so he set the creature free,
and with it he began to learn,
to see thing the rest didn't see,
he discovered why he was born.

among the great ancestors
of more than 300 years before
this boy became the 1st protector
of a greater dragon lore.

And used the original music for the video.
I even created a font to use in the video, named it Square Vikings.

 I made it available for personal and commercial use.

The poster was done in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Drawings that appear in the video were done in Adobe Illustrator CS5

Motion Graphics done in Adobe Motion Graphics CS5
Font was created with FontLab

Dream sketch

Question

What temperature is peace?

My Definitions

 Music: a nice travel agency

12:19am

and lead me there,
[far away]
among the trees

and leave me there,
[hidden by hills]
alone with them,
the fairy friends....

Scribble

The Sibling Movement

That would be the name of our family band.
We also liked:
*Psycho invaders
*The miraculously Cure of Zounds
*The Weird Seasons
*Olive Day
 And our aliases would be:
-Spiff
-MusicSwing 

Some of our song titles were:
-Turtle's Dream
-Train of Thought
-The "ED" Song (bed, fed, etc)
-Four Steps Away
-Fracture

Miniature little soul

Miniature little soul

Jumping from one cloud to another

Learning lessons at every stop

Tiny wispy thing

Knows not what's to come

But keeps on moving

In danger of getting hurt

in danger of falling hard

learning to grow

learning to live

Awaiting Transformation

a cold night,
a dark moment.
complete silence,
stillness like death.

you are out there,
somewhere...
probably alone,
posibly hurt.

the urge to find you is strong,
but i must obey your last order.
"stay"

...why?

it's wrong to question the master,
but it's not wrong to care for his well-being...
you told me to stay...
but the moment i hear,
the moment i see,
the moment i sense your fall
i'll come
in my strongest,
in my fullest,
transformed to keep you safe... 

 

Magic Window

Magic Window in my room,
please get rid of the gloom.
Show me green forests and a blue sky,
Disappear the wrong that makes them die.
Show me the sun and the moon in a tender embrace,
radiating all of life's warm grace.
Show me a bird that will sing a tune,
to tend to my hurts that can be sewn.

Magic Window in my room,
I hope to come back to you soon.