The Arab in the Desert

The painting that inspired this is called 'A Struggle in the Desert'

and by current world events

The Idea

Slow but Consistant Old Arab strolling through the Desent with barrel (oil?) on back.... seemingly alone, approached by fat obnoxios kid on moped with many comfort features, Boy tries to persuade Arab to sell barrel, finally tries to steal it..... but moped runs out of fuel, Arab is seen chucking barrel into a very deep pit

The disadvantages

Mixed reactions from colleagues, lecturers unimpressed.

The references

Wow, the guy on the bottom left is such a cool character!


The Sketches

Where to begin?

Seeing as I spent so much time exploring different possibilities, I feel I should take some time to document these.

Ideas

1) My Political idea, the Arab walking in the Desert
2) My religious Idea, the Apocalypse Ho-down
3) The Present
4) The Man in the Mirror
5) Little girl holding the Universe in her hands
5) Out of Tune (this evolved from the Present idea)

The Brief - 3D Animation for the London National Gallery

The Animation Students at Central Saint Martins College / Uni of the Arts London have been asked to base their final project on a painting in the National Art Gallery. The brief is for the story or style to be inspired by a painting that belongs to the existing collection (NG number). The animation is to be roughly 1 minute long, and be focused on character animation, rather than something abstract. also, it should preferably not be a literal adaption of the painting moving.