Nursery Rhymes(TB2) Ding Dong Bell

Ding Dong Bell

Ding Dong Bell, an Nursery Rhyme that describe a poor

cat has been put in the well by an naughty kid Tommy

Green( Different version, different naming). After that,

there is a kid Johnny Stout save the cat and pulled it

out. At the end, we know that the cat was a good cat

which killed the mouse in barn.

It is an happy ending in general, however, in the origin

rhyme, it does not mention the cat being pulled out by

anyone. The fear that children might be affected by the

horror and violence, it has led to several attempts to

reform it, and that is the reason of the appearance of

the "Johnny Stout".

Final Animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZnV40XDJFo

It is a story target on adult and horror lovers, it is not suitable for children, although

the rhymes does not make any changes. It is a story about grudge, death, and black

humor. The whole story using dark and grey colour to present the mood of the story.

The concept of final animation is mainly from the original rhyme, it was end up with

the cat's death. In this animation, the cat was dead and turn into a ghost because of

the grudge and anger to Johnny Flynn. Later, Johnny walked away from the well and

into the forest. Suddenly, the ghost cat appeared, and Johnny was eaten.

I decide to use charcoal rather than oil painting or sand drawing as the making

material of the animation. Firstly, I draw animatic in charcoal on the paper and film it

by Dragonframe, after that edited by flash and photoshop. Charcoal drawing easily

to create the mood of ruin and horror in the environment, which is also user-friendly

and less time consuming in editing of animation. For oil painting, I am not familiar to

the colour control and it is quite time consuming to make one scene. Sand drawing

prefer to use in some animation kind of emotional artistic expression, which is not

really suitable to my storyboard.

Storyboard 1

This is a rhyme that suitable for children read, with sweet characters and fun. It is

following the normal "Ding Dong Bell" rhyme which end up with a happy and

wonderful. It is good for children to treat animal good because it is a helpful

partner to us, and also pay attention to the one who did bad stuff on animal.

Storyboard 2

Storyboard (Final)

Character design

Character Design(Final)

Ghost, an unknown object which usually there is no

legs. This character turn from a sweetie creature to a

bloody and savage object. The design concept is

inspired from many horror movie about animals. It

reminds audiences that treat animal kindly and gently

otherwise they will take revenge on you.

Similar to Normal version, black and grey are the main

body colour. It's eyes change into sharp yellow cat

eyes, like a predator. Bloody hands presenting an

image of savage.

Tissue paper used as a media bring out the feeling of

fuzzy and light.

References

(1), (2) Schrodinger's Cat, Sain Daim

(3), (4) Death, Kitty and the Fat Man, Sain Daim

The making of normal cat is from these two

animations. They are cutie, innocent and facing death

at the end. Hollow eyes being used, it likely as an

image of no soul and hopeless to the world. These

two characters body were dead in the story,

however, it turns into another kind of creatures and

continue to live, which is an eternity life. These

elements inspire the making of the storyboard and

character design.

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Concept Art

(1) A monster cat with hollow eyes and giant

body come out from an old well. It was hungry

and want to take revenge to the one who put her

into the well.

(1)

The concept come from

a song call "The Fairy

Tale of light and

darkness" by Revo. In a

moonlit night, trees

were swinging like

catching something, at

the end of those trees,

there was an old well. A

myth said there was a

ghost cat and it would

eat someone who killed

animal.

Concept Art The well

Experimental Test - Sand Drawing

Experimental Test - Charcoal Test

Experimental Test Video

Sand Drawing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naXk4TeTvUc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jqJLQwLzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jqJLQwLzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jqJLQwLzY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_SUzrhdDA

Charcoal Drawing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2VYo4ysvaY

Oil painting on glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1ggpt2UmI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUzhD9p8__E

References

Ding Dong Bell rhyme, Glimpse, July. 2008., Shaad Afzal., Blogspot,

http://imshaadart.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/ding-dong-bell-rhyme.html

Ding Dong Bell Greeting Card, 1913, Pen-and-ink drawing, Arthur Rackman., Fineartamerica, Ding

Dong Bell. http://fineartamerica.com/showgreetingcardpreviewnew.php?imagename=images-

medium/ding-dong-bell-granger.jpg&artworkid=2184245&originx0=-

15&originy0=0&widthimage=380&heightimage=490&backgroundcolor=0&orientation=1&uniqueid=5

485acfc83e98

The Fairytale of light and darkness, Sound Horizon 7th Story Concert Mrchen, 2013, Revo,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZawjumrhbY8

Death, Kitty and the Fat Man, May, 2012., Sain Daim, http://vimeo.com/channels/432569/70517458

Schrodinger's Cat, June,2012., Sain Daim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNalMWLnt0o

Cute Black- cat wallpaper, Cattrixs , 2013http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/051/8/6/black_cat_on_white_by_wallpaperchen.jpg

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdAuMTbtlDKdjaXyuC4ZqyDVgJRF42Q5EspDIFiAkWyX9fGSnn