tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41734734958280879682024-02-07T17:44:41.639-08:00Biker GodPopa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-80296658250840648752014-03-01T07:19:00.001-08:002014-03-01T12:26:33.812-08:00Find the crow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>And, it is finally done.</b></div>
Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-75959717286665197062013-12-05T01:17:00.000-08:002014-03-01T08:06:01.664-08:00"Find the crow" pages.<div style="text-align: center;">
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Pencil work will be quite essential for me considering I am not inking my work, so, a strong drawing and clean pencil is what I need the most for this project. Even though it takes time to do it properly.</div>
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See you soon with the next 4 pages. The sooner the better.</div>
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p.s. the perspectives were a pain in the genitals.<br />
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With all the pain and suffering I managed to upload another page.<br />
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BAM!<br />
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Now, back to the (torture) desk for next pages...<br />
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Hello again!<br />
Here are 2 other new pages. <br />
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One more to go.<br />
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IT IS DONE! For now.<br />
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Now for the rendering process...</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page
one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Up worms eye shot of a desert sand dune. On
top of a dune lies something that resembles a marker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Same view of the dune, close shot of a foot
being dug deep into the sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Same view of the same dune, full shot of Em
close to the top of the dune, trying to crawl over it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Down birds eyeview shot of Em being on top
of the dune, next to the marker. He is looking at the vastness of the desert
lying ahead of him. I intend to have the perspective as stretched as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Caption
“I was lost…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Medium long shot of Em looking tired. He is
facing the reader, having his head and shoulders tilted, his chin slightly
upwards so that light reflects from his glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
6.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Medium long shot of Em’s body. His knees
are bended and he seems to be collapsing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel
7.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Full (worms eye
view) shot of Em on his knees. The top of the dune is seen arched to the left,
gradually disappearing in the far distance, where a strange heat distorted
figure can be seen walking towards him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page two.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close
shot of the buffalo’s foot stirring up the sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “Find…” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close up
to Em’s eyes. His head is tilted to the left, the direction of the buffalo’s
voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “The…” </span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Caption: “And scared…” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Full (worms eye
view) shot. Em is on his knees, he realizes that next to him there’s a buffalo
skeleton talking to him. He has his arm raised and he leans to the opposite
position of where the buffalo is, as he would lean if he were trying to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “Crow…” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Medium close shot
of Em falling down due to his fright. He is involuntarily trying to cushion his
fall with his elbow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Far shot of Em
tumbling downhill. (The direction of Em’s fall will be right. Considering the
way I picture the storyboard, I want these first pages to produce an uneasy
feeling by shifting some of the actions in the panels as opposed to the normal
way of reading a page[left to right])[<b>it’s
better explained on paper</b>]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(This is also
necessary to point out that Em’s tendency to back down, to remain in his
comfort zone, which ends with this actual fall as it will later be seen.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 6.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Caption: “I have almost given up” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Medium shot of Em
lying silent, his arms and legs are twisted in a strange position (his right
arm going under his body to the left side where it lies in a vertical position
his right leg flexed backwards touching his posterior while his other leg is
flexed from the knee touching his left side of the thorax), face first in the
sand, after his tumultuous tumble down the dune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 7.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “ouch”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page three.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An up (worm eye)
shot of Em getting up. He is presented in 3 positions. A medium close shot
while trying to push himself up, a medium long shot of his legs as he’s trying
to walk away (his hand position over his bended right leg hints to the hit he
received on his fall) and a far shot with him on the right of the panel looking
to the left at the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Down shot of Em
walking up a dune. He is presented in 4 positions. In the first one on the far
left upper corner of the panel he happily spots a huge bottle, around which the
dune swirls. On the second position he is inspecting the bottle. The third
position is a full shot of him walking up the dune, deflated by his failure to
find water. On the last pose he is in a medium long shot, struggling to climb
up the dune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Caption: “And when I did, it came to me again”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A full up shot
worm eye view of Em looking at the sky. Around him the desert unwraps its
vastness. Bottles can be seen on and around the strange dunes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page four.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “Find…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “No.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Medium close shot
of Em on his knees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “the…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “I can’t.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Full shot of Em
on his knees and hands, with his head down, looking tired and depressed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “crow…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Close up shot.
Em’s had can be seen facing downwards, on the bottom left of the panel, the
buffalo’s boney snout can be seen on the upper right of the panel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Em: “I don’t
trust myself to do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “trust…
don’t trust?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Em and the
buffalo are standing face to face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close up
to Em’s face. Em looks like he just woke up. (Em’s reaction portrays a subtle
realization of his error in his way of perceiving situations that are out of
his comfort zone.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 6.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close up
to Em’s hand reaching for the buffalo’s jaw.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 7.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close up
on Em’s hand being pulled by the buffalo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 8.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Medium close up
of Em clenching his fist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Birds eye view of
Em walking up a dune. He appears in 3 positions. An extreme far shot, a far
shot and a full shot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Long 3 shot of a
dune half covering a huge bottle. Em is presented in 3 positions. The first one
is getting down the steep angle of the dune. The second one is stumbling down,
near the bottom of the dune. The third one is resting, leaning on the bottle,
huffing and puffing. The sand near the bottle is littered with bones, and Em
doesn’t notice them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “Find…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “I know”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “The…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “I know, I’m just…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Full single shot
of Em holding one hand on the glass of the bottle and one hand of his knee, facing
downwards and trying to catch his breath. In the background the buffalo is
facing him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “Cr…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Close shot of the
buffalo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Close shot of the
buffalo turning to the right as he would have noticed something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 6.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “…resting?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Em faces upwards
and sees that the buffalo is missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page 6<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Worm’s eye view
of the totem and the bottle that Em’s resting in the background. The totem is
holding a huge bottle that springs water. At the base of the totem, is a medium
size pond. In the background we can see Em looking amazed while facing the
buffalo’s direction. In the far background the dunes are gradually disappearing
in a misty like manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Medium shot of Em
smiling at the realization that they found water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Close up to the
buffalo’s skull. The buffalo is drinking water. Being all bones, the water sort
of behaves like it would in 0 G. (When the buffalo sticks its snout inside the
water and the paint on his snout gets washed, leaving him without the
protection of a tattoo.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page 7<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Medium shot of
the buffalo facing Em. His head is tilted on a side; water is dripping from his
mouth. His tattoos are gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “…run”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Worm’s eye view
of the buffalo being ripped apart by hands emerging from the sand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Worm’s eye view
from Em’s back, of Em falling backwards, being attacked by some of the hands
that emerged from the sand. In the background a couple of hands are
distinctively holding the buffalo’s skull.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Bones fly around,
and one of the bones pierces Em’s t-shirt, this being another reason for his
fall backwards (he tries to dodge the “bullets”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “no!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Horizontally
extremely close shot of Em, being on the ground, with hands creeping towards
him<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “run!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Same type of shot,
this time of the buffalo’s skull being held by a couple of hands, with more
hands creeping in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 6.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “no”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Same type of
shot, this time of Em is violently being grabbed and pulled by the hands that
increased in number<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Panel 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Same type of
shot, the buffalo’s head is being ripped in half.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Buffalo: “run!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: ”no!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">(I planned this
page to have a bit of a subtext. First of all the buffalo is being attacked due
to his lack of ink, his lack of tattoos. This is what happens to Em as well,
but it firstly happens to the buffalo due to his proximity to the totem. The
Mojave Indians used to believe that if you were dead and you had no tattoos at
the time of your death, after your death your spirit would be dragged into rat
holes where it would be stuck for eternity. I took this motif and gave it a bit
of a twist, considering that the whole biker god universe is some kind of
spirit world, somewhere beyond life or death with all sorts of strange things
free to happen. Second of all, I intended the “run” “no” dialogue that the
buffalo and Em have, to be a wee bit…I wouldn’t say misleading, maybe tangled
is the better word. You can interpret Em’s “no” shouts as being shouted for
more than one reason. First of all, he could be shouting “no” as a reaction to
the violent situation he is in. He is shocked and frightened, he denies the
idea that he is in a situation from which he has quite slim chances to get out
alive from. The second reason would be his empathy. He refuses to acknowledge
the certain end of the single “living” thing that helped him on his journey,
and his inability to help him in the smallest way possible. The third reason is
similar to the second one on a certain level but different. Em denies running
away, due to the realization of his frivolous will. This happened when he was
confronted with the most casual play of words that the buffalo repeated
[trust…don’t trust], in the episode that Em had admitted to have given up. In
other words, he came to the realization that if he cannot trust himself, he
cannot trust his mistrust in himself as well, and now he was confronted with a
situation that required him to trust himself. I plan on keeping the angles of page7
and the last panels on page 7 as close to horizontal, thus depicting the idea
of Em’s stillness(both mental[he is shocked, frightened, unable to comprehend
the situation] and physical[being bound to the ground and unable to move]),
besides making the threat more…menacing)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Page 8<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 1.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">A series of close
shots and extreme reactions of Em, or a long shot of Em in different poses. Em
will grab the bone that pierced his t-shirt, and use it to fight some of the
hands. He shouts and cries and in the end a hand drops “dead” next to the buffalo’s
skull. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">(I want to leave
myself the creativity to figure this out on paper. I think that it would most
likely be better resolved under the influence of spontaneity. I will probably
use a series of small panels and rush the viewer through the actions and Em’s
emotional reactions and end it with the hand close to the skull[mislead the
reader for a moment that, that hand could be Em’s]).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 2.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Crow: “no...”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Extreme close up
to the skull mask that the Crow is wearing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 3.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"> Crow: “I
somehow don’t trust myself to believe you!” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Medium 2 shot of
the Crow stretching his bow, Em is facing us with his back, his holding his
hands up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 4.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Crow: “After all that, you had the strength to find
me? How? ”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “Well…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Medium shot of Em
holding his hands up, looking beaten up and tired. He has a faint smile,
something that is close to crying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US">Panel 5.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Em: “I figured that, if you can’t trust yourself, can
you trust not trusting yourself?”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Close up to Em’s
face. He is crying and smiling at the same time. A true sincere smile and tears
in his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">(There is more
than one reason that I’ve chosen to depict Em crying at the end. First of all,
he is recovering after a shock. It is normal for a human being to go through
these kinds of conflicting emotional states after serious stress or shock. The
second reason is his realization of his goal, he found the Crow, his journey
ends for the moment, and he is safe. The third reason is his empathic nature. He
mourns the death of the buffalo and realizes the help [from more than one point
of view] that the buffalo has given him. He is crying as a result of his
realization of his act of maturing, of growing up, of being aware of the
change, a process that is both hurtful and joyful.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">The End<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-8640439307203207902013-12-03T06:47:00.002-08:002013-12-03T07:12:33.260-08:00ResearchNeed to say this from the start. <br />
Unfortunately I was wise enough to manage to erase the scans I had with the research sketchbook, that also had spontaneous sketches in it...but it's ok, I still have all the info with the things that got into that sketchbook.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">A <b>totem</b> is a being, object, or symbol representing
an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family,
clan, group, lineage, or tribe, reminding them of their ancestry (or mythic
past). </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it
is called a totem. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Normally this belief is accompanied by a totemic myth. They
have been around for many years. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">They are usually in the shape of an animal,
and every animal has a certain personality, e.g Owl:</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><b>The Owl - Wisdom</b>, silent and swift and wise.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Although the term is of Ojibwe origin in North
America, totemistic
beliefs are not limited to Native Americans and Aboriginal peoples in Canada. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Similar
totem-like beliefs have been historically present in societies throughout much
of the world, including <b>Africa</b>, <b>Arabia</b>, <b>Asia</b>, <b>Australia</b>, <b>Eastern Europe</b>, <b>Western
Europe</b>, and the <b>Arctic polar region</b>.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In modern times, some single individuals, not otherwise
involved in the practice of a tribal religion, have chosen to adopt a personal spirit
animal helper, which has special meaning to them, and may refer to this as
a totem. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">This non-traditional usage of the term is prevalent in the New Age
movement and the mythopoetic men's movement.</span><br />
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North American totems:</span></b></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The word totem comes from the
Ojibway word <i>dodaem</i> and means "brother/sister kin".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It is the
archetypal symbol, animal or plant of hereditary clan affiliations. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People from
the same clan have the same clan totem and are considered immediate family. </span><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is taboo to marry someone of the same clan.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Ojibway scholar Basil H.
Johnston defines dodaem, or totem, as "that from which I draw my purpose,
meaning, and being," and states that "the bonds that united the
Ojibway-speaking people were the totems." </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He further asserts that the
feeling of oneness among people that occupy a vast territory is based not on
political, economic, or religious considerations but on totemic symbols that
"made those born under the signs one in function, birth, and
purpose." </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This means that men and women belonging to the same totem regarded
one another as brothers and sisters having kinship obligations to each other.</span></div>
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In North America, there is a certain
feeling of affinity between a kin group or clan and its totem. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are taboos
against killing clan animals, as humans are kin to the animals whose totems
they represent. In some cases, totem spirits are clan protectors and the center
of religious activity.</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></sup><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In some </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Native American cultures</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, a <b>dreamcatcher</b> (or <b>dream catcher</b>; </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Lakota</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">iháŋbla gmunka</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ojibwe</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">asabikeshiinh</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">inanimate</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> form of the word for "spider"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ojibwe</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bawaajige
nagwaagan</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> meaning "dream snare"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) is a handmade object based on a </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">willow</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
hoop, on which is woven a loose </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">net</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> or </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">web</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dreamcatchers originated with the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ojibwe people</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and were later adopted by some
neighboring nations through intermarriage and trade. It wasn't until the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pan-Indian Movement</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of the 1960s and 1970s, that they
were adopted by </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Native Americans</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> of a number of different nations. Some consider the
dreamcatcher a symbol of unity among the various Indian Nations, and a general
symbol of identification with Native American or </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">First Nations</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> cultures. However, many other Native Americans have come to
see dreamcatchers as over-commercialized, offensively </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">misappropriated</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and misused by non-Natives.</span><span lang="EN-US"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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of the dreamcatcher. Storytellers used to speak of the Spider Woman, known as
Asibikaashi, she took care of the children and the people on the land.
Eventually, the Ojibwe Nation spread to the corners of North America it was
difficult for Asibikaashi to reach all the children. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, the mothers and
grandmothers would weaved magical webs for the children, using willow hoops and
sinew or cordage made from plants. The dreamcatchers would filter out all bad
dreams and only allow good thoughts to enter our mind. Once the sun rises, all
bad dreams just disappear.<i> </i></span></div>
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protective charms. Examples of these are the "spiderwebs" hung on the
hoop of a cradle board. These articles consisted of wooden hoops about
3½ inches in diameter filled with an imitation of a spider's web made of
fine yarn, usually dyed red. In old times this netting was made of nettle
fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that they
"caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider's web catches and
holds whatever comes in contact with it."</span></div>
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dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or
tear-shaped frame of willow (in a way roughly similar to their method for
making snowshoe </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">webbing). The resulting
"dream-catcher", hung above the bed, is used as a charm to protect
sleeping people, usually children, from nightmares.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Ojibwe believe that a
dreamcatcher changes a person's dreams. According to Konrad J. Kaweczynski,
"Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through… Bad dreams would
stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day."</span><span lang="EN-US"><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers
to the sleeper.</span></div>
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origin, "</span>Nightmares<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> pass through the holes and out of the window. The good
dreams are trapped in the web, and then slide down the feathers to the sleeping
person."</span></div>
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giizis- the sun, moon, month- travel each day across the sky. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is meaning to every part of the dreamcatcher from the
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSHzXH_ZI_54S2Y4SjNr0wtAy7jlvkbYwRuKkIZ3Tg0vDXRXCsgPce1Vefbw27oNG1v1xaNTW5t-Pr34Gif02dVbRN0jDed27Xr22HDUQ9tWgNsgr6pWZnVBnlEYRCiZ6YdwZH2HAYgE/s1600/e0072368_4dd08aabe0950.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSHzXH_ZI_54S2Y4SjNr0wtAy7jlvkbYwRuKkIZ3Tg0vDXRXCsgPce1Vefbw27oNG1v1xaNTW5t-Pr34Gif02dVbRN0jDed27Xr22HDUQ9tWgNsgr6pWZnVBnlEYRCiZ6YdwZH2HAYgE/s320/e0072368_4dd08aabe0950.jpg" width="237" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Native
American</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First Nations</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> cultures have diverse religious
beliefs. There was never one universal Native American religion or spiritual
system. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though many Native American cultures have traditional healers,
ritualists, singers, </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">mystics</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
lore-keepers and "Medicine People", none of them ever used, or use,
the term "shaman" to describe these religious leaders. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rather, like
other indigenous cultures the world over, their spiritual functionaries are
described by words in their own languages, and in many cases are not taught to
outsiders.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many of these indigenous religions
have been grossly misrepresented by outside observers and anthropologists, even
to the extent of superficial or seriously mistaken anthropological accounts
being taken as more authentic than the accounts of actual members of the
cultures and religions in question. Often these accounts suffer from "</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Noble Savage</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"-type romanticism and </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">racism</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
Some contribute to the fallacy that Native American cultures and religions are
something that only existed in the past, and which can be mined for data
despite the opinions of Native communities.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXCCv-kE-sNAm78tpspI1oYsFpxtAiIkUCY5iKNpTnEdxOZrr4-8EPV29FgUQTvaxjdgydqMT4cI3fokNHI6k7cyvI7kypu6UIG2FRswpuhw0Fp8M4TCRXg6MH5MylAys2ndFaRVVRC4/s1600/Hamatsa_shaman2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXCCv-kE-sNAm78tpspI1oYsFpxtAiIkUCY5iKNpTnEdxOZrr4-8EPV29FgUQTvaxjdgydqMT4cI3fokNHI6k7cyvI7kypu6UIG2FRswpuhw0Fp8M4TCRXg6MH5MylAys2ndFaRVVRC4/s1600/Hamatsa_shaman2.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not all Indigenous communities have
roles for specific individuals who mediate with the spirit world on behalf of
the community. Among those that do have this sort of religious structure,
spiritual methods and beliefs may have some commonalities, though many of these
commonalities are due to some nations being closely related, from the same
region, or through post-Colonial governmental policies leading to the combining
of formerly independent nations on reservations. This can sometimes lead to the
impression that there is more unity among belief systems than there was in antiquity.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Navajo</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
medicine men and women, known as "Hatałii", use several methods to diagnose the
patient's ailments. The <i>Hatałii</i> will select a specific healing song for
that type of ailment. Navajo healers must be able to correctly perform a
traditional healing ceremony from beginning to end. If they do not, the
ceremony will not work. Training a Hatałii to perform ceremonies is extensive,
arduous, and takes many years. The apprentice learns everything by watching his
teacher, and memorizes the words to all the songs. Many times, a medicine man
or woman cannot learn all sixty of the traditional ceremonies, so will opt to
specialize in a select few.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the arrival of European </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">settlers</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
and </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">colonial</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> administration, the practice of
Native American traditional beliefs was discouraged and Christianity was
imposed upon the indigenous people. In most communities, the traditions were
not completely eradicated, but rather went underground, and were practiced
secretly until the prohibitive laws were repealed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">About 1888, a mass movement known as
the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ghost Dance</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> started among the Paviotso (a branch
of the Pah-Utes in Nevada) and swept through many tribes of </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Native
Americans</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
belief was that through practicing the Ghost Dance, a </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">messiah</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
would come with rituals that would make the white man disappear and bring back
game and dead native Americans.</span><span lang="EN-US"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This spread to the Plains tribes, who were starving due to
the depletion of the buffalo. Some Sioux, the Arapahos, Cheyennes and Kiowas
accepted the doctrine. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7NkfRo9yVTRC8GUzW1Qp734HpBIv2YOqSJmloHZW6iy5vy404U7yU7F07XoZYSV-LRvosb38tlG0O0Nl3bRQbGxNYhJF_b-GajB5XkDi4VKzHhmdjQFXX-hkgQq2J_08cKrtovl-flEk/s1600/qdef4g2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7NkfRo9yVTRC8GUzW1Qp734HpBIv2YOqSJmloHZW6iy5vy404U7yU7F07XoZYSV-LRvosb38tlG0O0Nl3bRQbGxNYhJF_b-GajB5XkDi4VKzHhmdjQFXX-hkgQq2J_08cKrtovl-flEk/s1600/qdef4g2.jpg" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This form of ceremony was brutally suppressed by the
United States military with the death of 128 Sioux at </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the massacre of Wounded Knee</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span lang="EN-US"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the last hundred years,
thousands of Native American and </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">First Nations</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> children from many different communities were sent into </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Indian boarding schools</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> in an effort to destroy tribal
languages, cultures and beliefs.</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">"<b>Medicine man</b>" or "<b>medicine woman</b>"
are English terms used to describe traditional healers and spiritual leaders among Native American and other
indigenous or aboriginal peoples. Anthropologists tend to prefer the term
"shaman,"
a specific term for a spiritual mediator from the Tungusic
peoples of Siberia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN-US">The medicine man and woman in
North America</span></span></span></h4>
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<span lang="EN-US">The primary function of these "medicine elders"
is to secure the help of the spirit world, including the Great
Spirit (Wakan Tanka in the language of the Lakota
Sioux), for the
benefit of the entire community.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Sometimes the help sought may be for the sake of healing disease,
sometimes it may be for the sake of healing the psyche, sometimes the goal is to promote
harmony between human groups or between humans & nature. So the term
"medicine man/woman" is not entirely inappropriate, but it greatly
oversimplifies and also skews the depiction of the people whose role in society
complements that of the chief. These people are not the Native American
equivalent of the Chinese "barefoot doctors", herbalists,
nor of the emergency medical technicians who ride rescue vehicles.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">To be recognized as the one who performs this function of
bridging between the natural world and the spiritual world for the benefit of
the community, an individual must be validated in his role by that community.
Medicine men and women study through a medicine society or from a single
teacher.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeN14N_at-xYa0OflUsKvfPH3zipJJTkTtCnjzfjZp8rmZFpCB0UW-mkW-1o8koiwXuAH3st0fwrj6t8ABhATKjZKwef0EnvBzE2wrwZCwYuxLD7-98eXqEg3OG4lGbm_idqUPuCb-Qgw/s1600/%EF%80%A0Tal-tan_Billy.%EF%80%A0_Indian_shaman_of_the_North_Pacific_Coast_in_ceremonial_dress._-_NARA_-_298059.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeN14N_at-xYa0OflUsKvfPH3zipJJTkTtCnjzfjZp8rmZFpCB0UW-mkW-1o8koiwXuAH3st0fwrj6t8ABhATKjZKwef0EnvBzE2wrwZCwYuxLD7-98eXqEg3OG4lGbm_idqUPuCb-Qgw/s320/%EF%80%A0Tal-tan_Billy.%EF%80%A0_Indian_shaman_of_the_North_Pacific_Coast_in_ceremonial_dress._-_NARA_-_298059.jpg" width="131" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="mw-headline"><span lang="EN-US">Cultural context:</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></h3>
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ojibweherbalistmedicine.png" title=""Enlarge" "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="mso-ignore: vglayout;"></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">An <b>Ojibwa Midew</b>
("medicine man") preparing an herbal remedy.</span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">The term "medicine people" is commonly used in
Native American communities, for example, when Arwen Nuttall (Cherokee) of
the National Museum of the American
Indian writes, "The knowledge possessed by medicine people is
privileged, and it often remains in particular families."</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Native Americans tend to be quite reluctant to discuss
issues about medicine or medicine people with non-Indians.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"> In some cultures,
the people will not even discuss these matters with Indians from other tribes.
In most tribes medicine elders are not expected to advertise or introduce
themselves as such. As Nuttall writes, "An inquiry to a Native person
about religious beliefs or ceremonies is often viewed with suspicion. </span><br />
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<br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US">One example of this was the Apache medicine cord or <i>Izze-kloth</i>,
whose purpose and use by Apache medicine elders was a mystery to nineteenth century
ethnologists because "<i>the Apache look upon these cords as so sacred
that strangers are not allowed to see them, much less handle them or talk about
them</i>."</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJQys822Np9xMHM4dDCBSNqSYsMNR7t_aPWF_MLH5_ixoEdXWQGB9fySh5RLDRawVhXMzLbygxgCvZfpf6JuemHaTrLH9d9fECx9m3CaGj6owZOuSJAkhlefgxl67rTVJxzo5GKiZLj8/s1600/Shaman+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwJQys822Np9xMHM4dDCBSNqSYsMNR7t_aPWF_MLH5_ixoEdXWQGB9fySh5RLDRawVhXMzLbygxgCvZfpf6JuemHaTrLH9d9fECx9m3CaGj6owZOuSJAkhlefgxl67rTVJxzo5GKiZLj8/s320/Shaman+copy.jpg" width="237" /></a><span lang="EN-US">The 1954 version of <i>Webster's New World Dictionary of
the American Language,</i> reflects the poorly grounded perceptions of the
people whose use of the term effectively defined it for the people of that
time: "a man supposed to have supernatural powers of curing disease and
controlling spirits." In effect, such definitions were not explanations of
what these "medicine people" were to their own communities, but
instead reported on the consensus of socially and psychologically remote
observers when they tried to categorize these individuals.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"> The term <b>"medicine man/woman"</b> like the term <b>"shaman"</b>,
has been criticized by Native Americans, as well as other specialists in the
fields of religion and anthropology.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The term "medicine man/woman" was also frequently
used by Europeans to refer to African traditional healers, also known as "witch
doctors" or "fetish men/women".</span><br />
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tend to share many characteristics, highly distinctive forms have developed. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The function of the masks may be magical or religious; they may appear in rites
of passage or as a make-up for a form of theatre. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Equally masks may disguise a
penitent or preside over important ceremonies; they may help mediate with
spirits, or offer a protective role to the society who utilise their powers. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Biologist Jeremy Griffith has suggested that ritual masks, as
representations of the human face, are extremely revealing of the two
fundamental aspects of the human psychological condition: firstly, the
repression of a cooperative, instinctive self or soul; and secondly, the
extremely angry state of the unjustly condemned conscious thinking egocentric
intellect.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Arctic</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Coastal groups have tended towards
rudimentary religious practice but a highly evolved and rich mythology,
especially concerning hunting. </span><br />
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ceremonies involved masked dances and these strongly abstracted masks are
arguably the most striking artifacts produced in this region.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Inuit </b>groups vary widely and do not
share a common mythology or language. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not surprisingly their mask traditions
are also often different, although their masks are often made out of driftwood,
animal skins, bones and feathers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their masks were often
master-pieces of carving, sometimes with movable jaws, or a mask within a mask,
and parts moved by pulling cords. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The carving of masks was an important feature
of wood craft, along with many other features that often combined the
utilitarian with the symbolic, such as </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">shields</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">canoes</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, poles and houses</span><br />
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North-East and around the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Great Lakes</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, cross-fertilized culturally with one another.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Iroquois</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
made spectacular wooden ‘</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">false face</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’ masks, used in healing ceremonies
and carved from living trees. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These masks appear in a great variety of shapes,
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for masked religious ritual, especially the </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hopi</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> and </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Zuni</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span><b><span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">kachinas</span></i></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, god/spirits, frequently take the
form of highly distinctive and elaborate masks that are used in ritual dances. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are usually made of leather with appendages of fur, feathers or leaves. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In more recent times, masking is a
common feature of </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mardi Gras</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> traditions, most notably in </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">New Orleans</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Costumes and masks (originally
inspired by </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">masquerade balls</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">) are frequently worn by </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">krewe</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> members on Mardi Gras Day. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Laws
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American sculptures have been very popular. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Archeologists have found many
carvings such as fetishes. Fetishes are the Native American sculptures or
carvings of animals that are often used in religious ceremonies. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many times today, especially the Zuni still carve fetishes. </span><br />
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form may be decorated with stones, shells, and feathers.</span></div>
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sculptures such as fetishes were what the Zuni tribe called Ahlashiwe. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Zuni believe that these sculptures were real animals that had been turned
to stone by the sons of the Sun Father. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This meant their life force was
still inside the stone and these fetishes were treated as very powerful. </span></div>
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the Native Americans believed that everything had an invisible spirit and
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to have contained the spirit of the animal it represented. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Zuni believe
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The mountain</b>
lion represents the north. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This fetish can be used to protect people
going on long journey or working on long term projects. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b> The wolf</b>
represents the east. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This fetish helps one when searching for game, but
also when searching for answers to their destiny. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The badger</b> represents
the south. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This fetish helps people find the correct herbs for healing
ailments. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The bear</b> represents the west. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This fetish too involves
healing, but not only the body, but also the spirit. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The mole </b>represents
the earth. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>The eagle</b>
represents the sky. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This fetish also involved healing, but it can take
one into the spirit world where they can seek answers to questions about
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ph0bDC6p2E_f29CMr4ZCSoIyOuCOR6m20WQ8C95Vyt-1vCQ5DrzFJwy887A4CKLGAuu7PYlnub3OREm1oUFDUSDEprY2SK3itQTuht_hEQ8dcnwU6kPWBTcI3x18d6GnnmtS1CAdexU/s1600/xctmpXBGzQc.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8Ph0bDC6p2E_f29CMr4ZCSoIyOuCOR6m20WQ8C95Vyt-1vCQ5DrzFJwy887A4CKLGAuu7PYlnub3OREm1oUFDUSDEprY2SK3itQTuht_hEQ8dcnwU6kPWBTcI3x18d6GnnmtS1CAdexU/s1600/xctmpXBGzQc.png" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some Native American sculptures will
have a coral heart line on both sides. This heart line usually runs from
the mouth or nose to where the heart lies. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>An arrowhead may symbolize the heart
line or life force. </b> </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some fetishes may also come with decorations such as
turquoise, coral, an arrowhead, or feathers. These are considered
offerings to evoke the spirit of the fetish.</span></div>
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fetishes as many view saints or a sacred statue. It can be used when you
need to pray or meditate. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The animal fetish also reminds us that we all
need aid with challenges from time to time. In addition, we realize that
all things live are interconnected with each other.</span></div>
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<br />Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-48376863382162091452013-11-19T15:19:00.000-08:002013-11-20T02:58:22.381-08:00Early concept art.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<b>Okay. So, here, you may find a couple of my sketchbook concepts that I made in the process of development of the Biker God universe.</b></div>
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<b>This is our main character, Em.</b></div>
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<b style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Em and the Snake.</b></div>
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<b>Em and Crow on a regular day in one of the deserts from that world.</b></div>
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<b>Em racing the snake inside of the "Big Bottle".</b></div>
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<br />Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-65936208295437174382013-10-04T02:12:00.000-07:002013-10-10T02:13:48.459-07:00Concept art<div style="text-align: center;">
You may find here some other concepts that I developed, in the hope of coming up with some visual style that would properly depict the feeling of the world.</div>
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Ok, so I started with these kind of concepts, trying to get a geometrical look and almost flat colours, but I felt like there was something missing, some of that plasticity that the pencil sketches had.</div>
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After a couple more failed attempts I tried to come up with a style that would combine my pencil sketches with the digital paint, so I came up with these ones.</div>
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But the results weren't what I was expecting from this.</div>
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I even tried to use the lasso geometrical kind of feel, and combine it with the style of painting from above.</div>
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Here's an example.</div>
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Then I realised I was involuntarily copying Jake Wyatt's style...in a bad, and non flattering way haha </div>
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Here's an example of his work.</div>
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<a href="http://jakewyattriot.tumblr.com/post/53309195174/test-number-three-necropolis-will-launch-at-the"><b>CLICK ME</b></a></div>
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<a href="http://jakewyatt.deviantart.com/"><b>AND ME...</b></a></div>
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Oh well, the search will go on...</div>
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A long long time ago in a place far far away from here I stumbled upon an interesting animation. It was called the Shaman King.<br />
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It's the story of a boy and his friends who are revealed to be shamans, mediums between the world of the living and the dead, which have the ability yo unite with ghosts and achieve shared goals.<br />
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The story revolves around a competition between them at the end of which the winner will become the Shaman King, the God of this world.<br />
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I'm mentioning this as a great source of inspiration, both the animation and comic being full of ideas that reach into the real world and different cultures and into their take on death and spirits, but at the same time not taking them too seriously and keeping a playful element about it.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDClpxA9-Yo&list=TLd0sk_qNLq2OaZbHFDwYGxOz50PqeYQxs"><b>Click here for the link</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.mangareader.net/138-7753-11/shaman-king/chapter-1.html"><b>And here for the comic</b></a><br />
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It is a good reference and a great example as what I have in plan for my project considering how much I plan on twisting and modifying the information from the references that I will use.<br />
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Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4173473495828087968.post-58581434870554741342013-10-03T01:39:00.000-07:002013-10-10T02:14:27.306-07:00Elevator pitch and synopsis.Allright.<br />
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Just before I start with the synopsis, I want to add a couple of words just so you know what the backstory is.<br />
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Em (our main guy) dreams of joining his uncle's biker gang. When he comes of age, he leaves with the gang to ride in the desert, but at one point they stop at a diner. At this diner, he is being treated a glass of mead, which after drinking has a bit of an unsuspected result.<br />
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Having his consciousness altered, he steps into a strange world, where he meets the Biker God. The god promises to bestow upon him gifts that will turn him into a true biker, and a way back to his world. But first, he is being asked to look for The Crow.<br />
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<b><i>"If you can't trust yourself, can you trust not trusting yourself?"</i></b></div>
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<b>On his journey to find The Crow, Em meets The Buffalo. The Buffalo is considered to be</b><i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i><i>"<b>the provider</b></i><i>"</i><b> in the native american folklore. He will guide Em on his arduous journey through the harsh desert and help him find Crow, and maybe something else as well.</b></div>
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Now... let's see how this turns out.<br />
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<br />Popa Constantin Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07763474006134376814noreply@blogger.com0