My project 3 idea is an opening to a TV series. The TV series it will be the opening to will be a series about the struggle between two nations at war – a community of angels and their God, and a community of fallen / dark angels and their Devil. My project will be an illustrated animated sequence depicting the history of how the war between the two races started – or more specifically – how the fallen / dark angel race came to be.

                The story within the opening sequence will be about a male angel living in the angel community. He has a female friend that he has liked for a long time. Unfortunately, she is infatuated with another guy. In a jealous rage, the main character ends up murdering the other man in the middle of the night. When the other angels and their God find out about this, they condemn him and exile him from their community. This includes depleting him of his angelic powers and his wings. In agony and pain, the main character lies alone in a barren landscape, when help in the form of the Devil arrives. In anger, the main character creates a pact with the Devil and becomes a fallen / dark angel. In the last scene, we zoom in on his eyes and face and the title appears in white against his new dark wings.

                The method I will use to create these scenes is digital illustration via Photoshop and a Wacom Intuos4 tablet. I will try to use pure hand drawn illustrations in all of my pieces, with little to no filters and editing work from Photoshop. I’ve always been interested in digital illustration on Photoshop, so this will be great exercise for me. The only problem I can foresee if that I have nine proposed scenes, and each scene will probably take 6+ hours to illustrate. I might eliminate one or two slides to make my workload a little more reasonable.