Ahn Sgig and 'The Witching Hour'

For the 30 second animation I choose to work on a different project called 'The Witching Hour'.

Its about the character Ahn Sgig, whos is dead and is out drinking in a tavern on the outskirts of the city, Crogue Togue. He forgets about the witching hour, 11pm- midnight, and must make it back to the city before the Snakes of Tambourine appear to devour those left outside the city gates.


Here is the pitch my class mate, Ross, gave to us:

and he also gave us a list of inspiration, stuff that has inspired his style and this story:

Al Hirschfeld

Albert Uderzo

Andre Franquin

Windsor Mckay - Little Nemo in Slumberland

George Herriman - Krazy + Ignatz

Occult Art/Iconography

European Calligraphy, Blackletter

Islamic Calligraphy, Art/Architecture

Art Deco

Art Nouveau

Illuminated Manuscripts (Like book of kells but not Celtic, more Germanic)

Eastern European (Russian, hungarian, romanian, bulgarian etc.) Art/Architecture/traditional dress.

Medieval design (furnitire, architecture, suits of armour etc)

Gothic Art/Architecture

Byzantine Art (for interesting layout approaches)

Vintage Halloween photos/postcards/decorations

Old Lantern Designs

Old Clocks.

Things To watch:

The Mad Doctor - mickey mouse short

Bimbo's Initiation - betty boop

Lonesome Ghosts

The Skeleton Dance

Scaredy Cat - Porky & Sylvester

Quay Brothers - The Calligrapher, Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for extinct anatomies.

http://youtu.be/WyGvGMa2RFg

Early Felix the Cat (pre 1940)

websites of note:

monsterbrains.blogspot.com

http://patterninislamicart.com/.