Steampunk Myths and Legends Entry: Martin Brennand

#1

Martin Brennand is entered in the “Steampunk Myths and Legends” update: View Challenge Page

Latest Update: Storyboards / pre-visualization: Rough Concept Sketch 002 - Yggdrasil

#2

I was wondering when you’d enter, Martin! Great to see the gang together…good luck!

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Concepts now…come on…:smiley:

#3

I’m pulling apart a whole bunch of old clocks as we speak.:smiley:

#4

Hey Erilaz, looking forward to your entry.

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#5

Martin when your done pulling apart that clock send me over a couple gears, my watch needs fixing!

Looking forward to your concepts!

#6

lol yeah! me looking too!
good luck Martin

#7

good luck:)

#8

We call them ‘ladies’ here, Martin. Behave yourself. :smiley:

#9

Good luck on the challenge, hope to see some concepts soon.

#10

Doing some sketches just to work the idea out of my head.

#11

Still very sketchy at this stage. I’m obviously going along a Nordic theme here, trying to flesh the idea out.

The quote is from ‘The Poetic Edda’, translated by Lee M. Hollander.

#12

Cool bro…love the look of the first sketch. You gonna filter your final animation so it looks similar to that?

#13

Thanks Tyson!
I’ll probably work on having some textural element to the overall presentation. As soon as I posted the tree sketch I hated it. The typography is awful too! Serves me right for trying to create while i’m overtired. :slight_smile:

#14

hey Martin, keep em coming buddy.
I’m really curious what direction you will go. Also, will you be doing a 2d or 3d illustration?
And btw, it’s cool to hate your babies. More beautiful ones will be born out of that :slight_smile:

#15

Hey man! Dig the Dave McKean-ish textured thing you got going! Like Art2 asked; are you thinking 2d or 3d? I could easily see that style for a 2d anim!

I’m gonna have to agree with you on the typography… it kind of a hard read… Maybe go for something more angular (like runes only with the latin aplhabet or something?)

Good luck in the challenge! Gonna be cool to see more!

dC

#16

I’ll be watching - good luck man!

#17

Cool, the stories of Yggdrasil and the whole collection of stories from Edda makes for a great base. Can’t wait to see where you take this, love the Norse stuff :slight_smile: (Not just because I’m from Norway :p)

#18

Thanks for the kind words people!

Art2: I’ll be doing a 2D animation, sort of a cross blend of live-action and motion graphics. At least that’s the plan!
dCepT: Yeah, the typography was a really, really bad choice. I was stupidly tired when I did that. I will be incorporating some of the Elder Futhark into the work, but since most people can’t read the ancient Germanic rune sets, i’m also going to have to find a nice english one as well!
daw: Thanks man, can’t wait to see what you crop up!
Raptorus: Me too, I studied Scandinavian mythology as a child… or rather was obsessed with it. :smiley: Nice to see a Swinburnian! That was my old university. :slight_smile:

As to the concept, I will be trying to focus on Odin’s journey and the getting of wisdom from the Well of Mimir, with the subsequent famous hanging from the world tree for nine days. I want to try to fuse the concept of stempunk with the classic elements of the tale, especially focusing on the losing of Odin’s right eye, the Well and Yggdrasil.

#19

Sorry for the lack of updates all, i’ve been hammered at work recently. Here’s some great reference to tide you all over!

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/12/steampunk-art-gear-drb-series.html

#20

I really like the style of this, makes it unique. And its nores mythology, like our entry. Very strong visuals this has.