In my post Hold That Thought!, I talked about how all three Lion King films are based on plays by William Shakespeare. Actually, not Lion King 1½ which is based on a play Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead which is based on characters from Hamlet. I only just found that out...
Anyways, the point is Shakespeare has helped Lion King and I said I was going to study Shakespeare. And I have started to do this through Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. They have taken 20 of the classic Shakespeare stories and rewritten them for children.
Children?
Yeah, I've been listening to children stories, seeing that I like a kids movie...
Anyways, if you want to get an introduction to Shakespeare as well you can listen to recordings of the stories at LibriVox or read the text at Project Gutenberg.
Merchant of Venice it should be noted is referanced in Simba's Pride, well worth a listen or read.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
Lions vs Elephants
*Gasp* This post is coming two days late! So, what have I been doing?
Besides school, I've been having a whole bunch of fun in blender learning some more basic tricks. Such as how to add more then one colour to a single mesh:
Far, far from finished. But I like how it is coming. Now onto the "Real Lions" post...
Two weeks ago I highlighted a video about the Lion vs Hyenas, a battle we see in the Lion King film. Yet here now is a battle not shown in the movies, and as such is crying out for a fan fiction to be based on it. It is the "Lions vs Elephant" struggle.
Maybe it is just me, but the voice in the above film reminds me of Jeremy Irons, voice of Scar.
If you want to see more, this video is worth a look as well.
As I said above, this animal battle is ripe with a story worthy of the name, Lion King.
Besides school, I've been having a whole bunch of fun in blender learning some more basic tricks. Such as how to add more then one colour to a single mesh:
Far, far from finished. But I like how it is coming. Now onto the "Real Lions" post...
Two weeks ago I highlighted a video about the Lion vs Hyenas, a battle we see in the Lion King film. Yet here now is a battle not shown in the movies, and as such is crying out for a fan fiction to be based on it. It is the "Lions vs Elephant" struggle.
Maybe it is just me, but the voice in the above film reminds me of Jeremy Irons, voice of Scar.
If you want to see more, this video is worth a look as well.
As I said above, this animal battle is ripe with a story worthy of the name, Lion King.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Circle of Life Project
I just saw this message over at http://fanart.lionking.org/ and it looks to me like this might have some promise.
http://www.skysoldja.com/index.html
The site needs some work...
OK, a lot of work. Its hard to navigate, gives little to no info on where the project is right now. When you navigate to a page so that you can listen to music or sound bytes they all load at once, and there are a number of other problems I won't get into.
What matters is the idea. Will it work? Is it a good idea? Is the script a good story?
The answers, I have no idea. I think its cool because its along the lines of what I'm working on. But, I don't know...
The first scene of the script totally lost me. I think the reason being there is no summary. So all these new characters are introduced and I'm left in the dust asking, what? Who, what, and when is this all taking place?
Then I go and see all this great art, but again I'm left asking, WHAT!
A white lion? Tons of males? Nuka had a brother? And I have to ask, is Nuka really Scar's son. Oh wait, wrong post...
Anyways, I'm going to try and read this script, but I don't know how well I'll do with that. I'll hope I can finish it, but somehow I doubt it. They've made one big mistake, the story is set in the pride lands with lions as the main charectures. Thus we'll always compare it to the first film. Because of this I think it will come short, by a long ways.
However, I wish them the best of luck and hope they can clean up the site so it will be easy to follow progress.
http://www.skysoldja.com/index.html
The site needs some work...
OK, a lot of work. Its hard to navigate, gives little to no info on where the project is right now. When you navigate to a page so that you can listen to music or sound bytes they all load at once, and there are a number of other problems I won't get into.
What matters is the idea. Will it work? Is it a good idea? Is the script a good story?
The answers, I have no idea. I think its cool because its along the lines of what I'm working on. But, I don't know...
The first scene of the script totally lost me. I think the reason being there is no summary. So all these new characters are introduced and I'm left in the dust asking, what? Who, what, and when is this all taking place?
Then I go and see all this great art, but again I'm left asking, WHAT!
A white lion? Tons of males? Nuka had a brother? And I have to ask, is Nuka really Scar's son. Oh wait, wrong post...
Anyways, I'm going to try and read this script, but I don't know how well I'll do with that. I'll hope I can finish it, but somehow I doubt it. They've made one big mistake, the story is set in the pride lands with lions as the main charectures. Thus we'll always compare it to the first film. Because of this I think it will come short, by a long ways.
However, I wish them the best of luck and hope they can clean up the site so it will be easy to follow progress.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Rafiki's Slip Up - Version 1
As some of you may know, I've been fooling around with 3D Lion King animations in the free program, Blender recently. I keep trying new things with it and here is my latest. Still very much a work in progress as is every thing I do.
Please, let me know what you think!
Please, let me know what you think!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Lion Guardians
**Warning - The Link in this Post Contains very Graphic Images of Dead Lions**
Today I'm going to show you guys another blog you can subscribe to about Lions. It is the Lion Guardians blog. The description:
I for one will be throwing this blog into my feed reader and hoping for some good content in the future. Also of possible interest is the "Mara Triangle" blog. But beware of huge images.
Today I'm going to show you guys another blog you can subscribe to about Lions. It is the Lion Guardians blog. The description:
Maasai murran and Lion Guardian co-ordinator, working to save the lions of Maasailand.
I for one will be throwing this blog into my feed reader and hoping for some good content in the future. Also of possible interest is the "Mara Triangle" blog. But beware of huge images.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Lion King Returns to the Big Screen in 2008!
Yes, you read the title correctly. The Lion King will return to the silver screen in 2008, but not in the way you think. "Be Kind Rewind" is a new film coming out on February 22 staring Jack Black and Mos Def. Summary from the Internet Movie Database:
A man (Black) whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Back to the Future, The Lion King, and Robocop.
Sounds like fun to me! See the trailer here on YouTube.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Fan-Art by Kivuli
Yeah, I know. This is a day late, so lets see if I can make this extra good.
Today I will highlight art by Kivuli. She has 190 Lion King pictures on lionking.org, most of them all of a very high quality. I'm going to review two of them but she has done many more then two pictures. Check out Nuka's Presentation, Sarabi and Zira, and Taka's Scar. Now for the pictures I'm going to review.
Zira's Exile
I'm not going to talk about the amazing characters or the empty background, instead I will discuss if this fits into Lion King canon. For those who don't know what Lion King canon is, a podcast is coming about that.
So, first question is the timing. When does this take place?
It could not have happened between when Scar is killed and before Simba steps up and takes his place as king, which was were I thought it could go at first.
And as the pride lands are still relativly "dead" looking I believe it safe to say this event as shown must have happened close after the end of the rain which "clensed" the pride lands. So far, so good. This picture can fit into the Lion King timeline as an event right after the rain. But their is one stumbling block.
Where is Kovu? Only Nuka is shown and he is shown as a young cub. But as Kovu has already been born at this point and is the youngest he should be the one Zira is carrying. And not only is Kovu the youngest, but he is Scar's heir, he should be the one in Zira's mouth.
In the end I would suggest that this pictures shows an event we assumed happened, but its details are a little off. Why are there only three Lioness being outlawed? This picture is great to look at and well done to Kivuli but there are still some unanswered questions.
Mufasa's Death
She's got Scar and Sarabi down perfect here, I love it! Mufasa looks very much like Simba and the Hyena is something to laugh about, but overall another great image. Does it work with the Lion King canon?
It would if it wasn't for the caption she game it:
"Who can loves me like Sarabi loves my brother?"
If we compare this to the musical, that thought must be thrown out. Scar apparently did not consider having a queen until after his bout of madness and Zazu tells him that Mufasa had a loving queen. It is presented as if that is when Scar first thinks about having a queen and cubs.
I have no doubt the lioness visited Mufasa's dead body, but Scar did not slink away wanting a queen.
I hope you enjoyed. Think I'm wrong? Tell me below by leaving a comment.
Today I will highlight art by Kivuli. She has 190 Lion King pictures on lionking.org, most of them all of a very high quality. I'm going to review two of them but she has done many more then two pictures. Check out Nuka's Presentation, Sarabi and Zira, and Taka's Scar. Now for the pictures I'm going to review.
Zira's Exile
I'm not going to talk about the amazing characters or the empty background, instead I will discuss if this fits into Lion King canon. For those who don't know what Lion King canon is, a podcast is coming about that.
So, first question is the timing. When does this take place?
It could not have happened between when Scar is killed and before Simba steps up and takes his place as king, which was were I thought it could go at first.
And as the pride lands are still relativly "dead" looking I believe it safe to say this event as shown must have happened close after the end of the rain which "clensed" the pride lands. So far, so good. This picture can fit into the Lion King timeline as an event right after the rain. But their is one stumbling block.
Where is Kovu? Only Nuka is shown and he is shown as a young cub. But as Kovu has already been born at this point and is the youngest he should be the one Zira is carrying. And not only is Kovu the youngest, but he is Scar's heir, he should be the one in Zira's mouth.
In the end I would suggest that this pictures shows an event we assumed happened, but its details are a little off. Why are there only three Lioness being outlawed? This picture is great to look at and well done to Kivuli but there are still some unanswered questions.
Mufasa's Death
She's got Scar and Sarabi down perfect here, I love it! Mufasa looks very much like Simba and the Hyena is something to laugh about, but overall another great image. Does it work with the Lion King canon?
It would if it wasn't for the caption she game it:
"Who can loves me like Sarabi loves my brother?"
If we compare this to the musical, that thought must be thrown out. Scar apparently did not consider having a queen until after his bout of madness and Zazu tells him that Mufasa had a loving queen. It is presented as if that is when Scar first thinks about having a queen and cubs.
I have no doubt the lioness visited Mufasa's dead body, but Scar did not slink away wanting a queen.
I hope you enjoyed. Think I'm wrong? Tell me below by leaving a comment.
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