Most people are familiar with the famous fable of Grasshopper and The Ants but this is a reverse approach to draw the audience to a deep challenge. The sweet atmosphere of bedtime stories with Christmas snow in the mysterious world is a gift for a narrative about a genius Musician journey.
Synopsis
Winter came. Problems multiplied. Cricket the violinist forced to ask lord Ant to help. They rejected his request. Ladybug reminded him; that he spends his art to get a rhythm to greedy Ants in harvesting season. He told him, care for yourself! Art is for others! Exactly like Cricket’s inner (Crickhoper) sound, who had endless challenges with him! So despite Ladybug’s Advice, Idealist Cricket traveled to the queen’s palace, hopeful of finding a civilized solution. Soldiers arrested him. Angry Quin who had a seriously ill daughter, ordered, to his death! As the last plea he played his violin, and music echoed across the castle, and cured the princess. Everything reversed, as far as they hired him as a royalty musician. He had a royal home with an unlimited supply of food. Exactly like Crickhoper’s request, their challenge restarted, deep, poetic, musical, and action. Finally, Cricket who couldn’t change Queen’s mind about rules against crickets left Crickhupper in the mirror of his luxury house in Castle.
Ladybug: after Cricket couldn’t turn a blind eye to the rights of his fellows. The spirits of his fellows accompany him like an orchestra such beauty and warmth that melts the ice…
Project’s Concepts (Tone and Technique)
Since this story is a retelling of the fable of the Grasshopper and the Ants, prompted us to get closer to the bedtime books’ tone and traditional illustrations. The classical 2D technique is the most suitable image style for this narrative.
Category and Time
The Christmas Atmosphere and the limited story were fit for a Special films category. In the storyboarding process, we achieved a time of about 26 minutes.
Sound and Music
The soft mood of the watercolor and pencil illustrations forms the main Art style, but Sometimes if needed they have the ability to appear rough and hard.
The colors have been tried to have personality, for example, the color of the film is a combination of magenta and yellow in different ranges, and our main character, the cricket, is exclusively introduced with cyan color.
The difference in the insects’ scale has provided an opportunity to have a fantasy and mysterious space.
Visual Language
Animation production offers a remarkable opportunity for diverse arts to converge in a dynamic collaboration, resulting in something greater than the sum of its parts. This is where the true magic of animation unfolds. With its potential to unify various artistic elements, this story holds great promise in animation. 2D animation not only preserves the artistic essence of illustrations but also offers a cost-effective solution.
Graphic elements
below you can see some mentioned.
Production timing and pipeline: 18 months
Months 1-6: Story reel development.
Months 3-8: Artistic layout design.
Months 4-9: Technical layout and rough composite creation, along with music.
Month 7: Voice recording.
Months 5-16: Animation production.
Months 5-13: Background design.
Months 10-17: Final composite creation.
Months 17-18: Sound effects implementation.
Month 18: Post-production.
Soft wares
Rebelle. TVpaint. Fusion. Blender. Adobe premiere.