After speaking with a fellow team of two that are working together
on an art book. I told them about my ideas and they strongly suggest I either
team up with somebody to pull it off, or reign in the scope to make it more manageable
just for myself. A fellow student, Georgina also known as Ed, overheard my idea
and really liked the sound of what I was proposing. She seemed keen to team up
with me so this is what we decided to do.
She gave me some ideas and we started a Pinterest board, to
start gathering reference images.
After a couple of weeks, Ed suggested that to save time,
maybe we should base the book off an existing story and just re-imagine the
designs of all the elements that make up the story. She suggested a couple of
fairly unknown fairy-tale stories, and these seemed like a potential idea.
However, I was home for Christmas and just so happened a
film called Metropolis was on TV. I thought this was Osamu Tezuka’s anime film,
which I’d seen before in passing. What I was met with was an old black and
white silent film. I read the description and saw it was from 1927 and the plot
read as something near exact to my original Miners idea. I looked into it
further and realised the anime film metropolis was based off of this silent
film.
I thought this story help great potential for our art book. I told Ed and she
looked into It too. I thought seeing as there had been 2 versions, we’d have
even more reference for when it came to designing.
We both agreed that this could work really well. Next on our
list is to organise what we’re going to include in the book. We’re writing
another blog that follows FMP’s progress. You can find that here:
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