Gaaaah I am having so much troubles thinking out the concept for this. How it will look, I am going for a drab look. And very ill look. I want the composition for this one to be perfect and I can't seem to think of anything that will work. Here are the lyrics. Any one who can help me brainstorm?

Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun

Along the Long Road and on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut

There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder

Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide

At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world

Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we've been so many times

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river

Forever and ever

and here is what I have so far... a blank canvas.



The song is somewhat about regret. And the unstoppable forces of life.

Reading those lyrics I imagine a transition from a really bright atmosphere too a darker one, that would be cool.

I feel you're going from this the completely opposite way than how it's intended.

What I hear is hopeful youth, growing older, and looking to the past with regret. Yet still hoping they can 'right the ship' for the future. It's a song about a person continuously being let down by themselves because they set their hopes too high from the outset, causing them to fail in their own eyes.

It should first of all be a cyclical image or concept, maybe not infinite but definitely repeating. So the 'dead end' doesn't work.

It's about a person being tied down by mistakes of a younger person than themselves, not a young person being wrangled by an old one.

The song names several elements that can be used in a very visual way; high altitudes and flags, as the hopes of the future, and a shire-like environment for the past.

I'd make a 'timelapse' shot of one person of several ages looking back on themselves while walking from an untroubled meadow to a glorious but uncomfortable achievement of climbing a mountain.

What if you did something with the ember bridge? c:

Pallet change

(jinns) Probably will modify or completely change it isn't green enough.

been plotting down some Concepts with pencil. I dont want anything to throw the viewer off of the point. (So no burning bridges)

Possibly going with what Snader pointed another landscape piece showing a man looking back upon an untroubled green valley asa he travels forward on a path more increasingly tough. In the near distance a lone mountain (possibly get (unfurled) flags as sillouhetes in the BG) Which I will somehow make it clear he must climb. Probably with steps.

I am going to make the sky a bitter greyish blue. For the character I have no clue. Maybe he can wear a suit.

I feel the character design on this one is very important for If he looks to happy the whole meaning of the drawing would be false. I need a sorrowful look. Tomorrow Ill pump out some line drawings to show, Hopefully we can boot off from there.

Edited by Limes - 08 February 2015 at 10:13pm

I deleted that one it was ugly.

Like my last piece i'll just take it one dose at a time, lets start with the BG why don't we.

much happier with this



I will show him walking horizontally across the screen.

Edited by Limes - 11 February 2015 at 10:19am