MEDIA THEORY
Research on styles that have influenced me
The 2 things that I have researched for my animation is the anime YU-GI-OH made by Kazuki Takahashi. The reason why I used this for my research is because I've watched it and when looking into more detail I could tell that the theme could really help me. Season 0 episode 1 of YU-GI-OH in the last quarter Yugi is seen putting together the millennium puzzle which was know as the millennium pendant. What inspires me about the millennium item is that it is based of Ancient Egypt mythology and on the millennium item it has a eye similar to the eye of Horus. In the anime, the lore of the world is realistic because in ancient Egypt the Egyptians believed that pyramids were made to face up to face the sun, they believed that there spirit would follow the sun every day and then return to there tomb to rest. Pyramids are is a symbol of light and RA, and this is why pyramids have a point that face up. In the anime Yugi solves the millennium but the pyramid points downwards which shows a symbol of darkness because it points away from the sun.
This is the evil ancient style that I want go for. I intend to accomplish this by this by including some powerful ancient Egyptian signs such as the eye of Horus and Wadjet Eye the difference between these is that they are eyes that belong to different gods. The eye of horus belongs to RA (the sun god) and Wadjet eye belongs to Wadjet the goddess although these look similar they represent many of the same concepts. Another sign that I would like the include is the Ankh sign which is a sign of being immortal and also is a symbol for life and death. The way I was thinking of using this in my animation is if they saw the symbol and it was upside down and not held by the loop. Also I was thinking of including the millennium scales, this was used to summon a demon that devoured peoples souls by eating there heart. How it was used, Egyptians weight there hear against a feather called feather of truth and they weighed this against the persons heart and if it weighed more than the feather Ammit a demon part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile would rise from under and eat the heart. I think to include ancient gods and demons or even include something would give a bad feeling. I was thinking that for the names of the items I might just name them backwards. I'm intending to include lots of hieroglyphs, lots of these symbols and items, as well as typical things such as tombs, pyramids, desert When I include any of these characters I want to try and get the worse thing from them what I mean by that is, to make it very gory and violent.
To conclude the research on styles for YU-GI-OH has influenced me so that I can choose colors that will match this those colours would be a dark gold and other dark colors like purple and black and it might look better as effects like to have an millennium object having a glowing dark aura. When they are showed I could have audio that could indicate danger and a presents of evil. The art style is inspiration and gives me good ideas because of the anime the coloring bright colors and when something bad will happen the atmosphere is already set in dark. For example when Yugi/Yami (Pharaoh) duels a few people
meaning of RA
Environmental research
For the environment I knew that there were going be two main environments. This was going to be a desert and modern city. To get a good idea I Google searched to see what came up with desert looked at a definition.
"A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation"
When I read this I thought of a place that is scarce and when there nothing to be seen almost like a sandbox. The only things that can be seen is the horizon, sun and sand.
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