High Hopes.
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Topic: High Hopes.
Posted By: Limes
Subject: High Hopes.
Date Posted: 22 January 2015 at 11:24pm
After the astounding success that was this piece I did.
I have decided to take up a new song based piece. This time around the song issss? *drumroll* High Hopes by Pink Floyd! This song is one of my favourite songs of all time, it is lyrically AMAZING and it sounds magnificent. The technicality of the song is out of this world and its guitar!!!.. don't even get me started. I just have to say Pink Floyd is hands down the epitome of progressive rock. ------------- |
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Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 25 January 2015 at 4:18pm
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 25 January 2015 at 8:51pm
I put down a concept I liked.
Pretty sadistic. EDIT: Ughhhhh this is pissing me off! 
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Posted By: Daruda
Date Posted: 27 January 2015 at 12:21pm
| Reading those lyrics I imagine a transition from a really bright atmosphere too a darker one, that would be cool. |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 27 January 2015 at 8:20pm
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but the question is how do I Incorporate that. ------------- |
Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 28 January 2015 at 12:05pm
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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. ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: Daruda
Date Posted: 28 January 2015 at 12:08pm
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What do you think of making the left side of the terrain green and making the cliff the border of the polluted land?
The sky too could follow that logic. |
Posted By: DrTripwire
Date Posted: 30 January 2015 at 10:02am
| What if you did something with the ember bridge? c: |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 31 January 2015 at 9:06pm
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Hmmmm. Wow thanks snader that slipped right past me.
@tripwire plausibly. :3 thanks for the comments ------------- |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 08 February 2015 at 10:01pm
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. ------------- |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 11 February 2015 at 10:02am
Needs LOTS of changes but it's a start. I don't really know how to make a mountain kinda foreground but nut background. ------------- |
Posted By: Limes
Date Posted: 11 February 2015 at 10:11am
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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. ------------- |