19 weeks. That’s what I have to create the animated film that hopefully will launch me into the early stages of becoming an animator in the world of 3D. In the entertainment-based world this one have evolved into, it certainly have proven to be a usefull skill to those who masters it.
“Here we go”
And here we appearantly stopped, hit a brick wall, and started hammering it with our bare fists. I of course can’t come up with an idea for my animation film now for some reason. I do have certain parts worked out and goals with it, but the story won’t appear to me. I want to be original in a world where so much has already been done.
So here’s what I got, this is what I want to be the viewer to feel, think and review my animation film as when they see it for the first time(I can’t order them to like it ofc 
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EPIC! Oo Epic, why art thou so epic? That is the question… No, I do not read Shakespear but I know the basics of some of his material, having been nearly indoctrinated since childhood to know that this man, whom I don’t know or have never read an entire book from, only visual renditions from films, is the greatest writer that has ever walked the earth. That first line was of course a remix of the famous “Romeo and Juliet” and the equally famous “Hamlet”. BUT BACK TO MY FILM!
What is “Epic”?
There are several definitions of the word online, but the one I’m looking to convey on my audience is more of the modern understanding of the word. I am basicly looking for an EPIC WIN, and not the opposite EPIC FAIL. How do I define epic? Lets put some of my thoughts down:
- War = epic
- Epic event/action
- Size does matter = epic
- Large numbers = epic
- Heroes = epic
- Slow motion = epic
- explosions = epic
- destruction = epic
- epic music = epic
- epic battle in war with heroes and explosions and huge creatures and landskapes, with massive destruction and effects along with orchestrated music = pretty epic
Actually, the more there is of one of these epic things mentioned above, a rize of “epic” is registered on my “epic-o-meter”. But there’s also a certain hidden secret in all of this epicness, one must also never forget “too much of anything”…is bad or something…whatever.
That an event is epic, may very well be true. But if you want it to be the level of epic only truly EPIC goes, I’m talking legendary epic here. Those events are often, if not always unexpected. If you can see the “epic event” I speak of, coming a long way, then it’s just epic, and it may even degrade out of it’s level of epicness later on, even be surpassed by a slightly more epic event and lose it’s epicness all together. That’s not really epic at all now is it?
Another part of epic is the power to exaggerate beyond what is normal. It is actually a part of us all, since we all tend to exaggerate when we either tell or brag to someone about what we have done or what happened on this or that day, and why they should had been there to see it. “I caught a fish and it was this |———–O———–| huge”
But there is more. Contrast, I think as well. Take this scenario:
Two armies of 10,000 men race towards eachother.
But now read this:
One man, vs an army of 10,000 men race towards eachother.
I’m not the Judge Dredd of what is epic, but I’m pretty sure the last one is the most epic of the two. Movies like “300″ or ”The Matrix” might come to mind. Two glorious examples of epic indeed. Of course again you would think that the one man is the hero of the story, and that some how he would come out of it safe as the victor. Killing him right there on the spot wouldn’t really help the epicness after such anticipation, other than the “EPIC LOLS” perhaps? As I said, there is a balance in all of this.
