Animation: Narrative Workflow

Following on from my initial ideas i began looking at the song and creating ideas for the piece. i looked a famous dream sequence done by salvador dali, to gauge inspiration for how to create my animatic. Salvador Dali Dalí was a skilled  draftsman , best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His  painterly  skills are often attributed to the influence of  Renaissance  masters.His best-known work,  The Persistence of Memory , was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the  Moors . Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric...

As odd as it is, i want my animation to be very surreal, one animation while ill related to my ideas, had a lovely animation style, while albeit weird was the video linked below I like the look as the lines, colours and imagery blend into one another and seamlessly flow into one another. Another piece of animation i looked at for inspiration was Marvel's Doctor Strange, where Strange first meets the ancient one. the sort of abstract journey that strange embarks really intrigues me and also fits with the idea of the previous researched animation piece Initial idea and research While on the bus home from the supermarket, i was listening to one of my favourite songs by the band Rush. The song is 20 minute masterpiece telling the story of a man, living under an oppressed regime, where all art and music is banned and filtered by the high priests. The man the story revolves around, finds a guitar in a cave near the river where he works.  He figures out how to tu...