Watch the latest work, based on the hugely successful ‘Legends of Avantris’ D&D 5th edition folk-horror-adventure, ‘The Crooked Moon,’ from the composers on Cartoon Network’s ‘Over the Garden Wall’ series.
The Blasting Company, composers for the Cartoon Network Series , have just released a brand-new animated lyric video for their single, “Coal Eyed Birds,” based on ’ D&D 5th edition folk-horror adventure, “The Crooked Moon.”
“The Crooked Moon” is part of the supplement that was Kickstarted last year, generating more than $4 million to become the biggest D&D project of all-time on the platform.has grown to more than 1.69 million YouTube subscribers; the single was recently released to celebrate its seventh anniversary.
The Blasting Company – the duo of Joshua Kaufman and Justin Rubenstein - also scored the recent stop-motion short released for the show's 10th anniversary.They will show and talk about the lyric video later today on a livestream on the YouTube channel in a livestream. “Coal Eyed Birds” specifically highlights one of the adventure's chapters, where the player characters encounter a demon named Raum that was created when a scarecrow named Ol' Jericho Sticks fused with the demonic entity inside him named Virgil.They are represented by the two singers, Jericho (Frank Fairfield, the Toymaker in ) and Virgil (The Blasting Company’s Rubenstein).
The song tells the story of that poor, lonely scarecrow, who succumbs to possession by a demon and slowly is driven to insanity and violent outbreak (against the birds hanging around him). Rae Gonzalez, who animated the lyric video, shared, “When I was brought onto this project to create a lyric video for ‘The Crooked Moon’ campaign, I was beyond excited.The song’s creative storyline immediately inspired me to craft a unique atmosphere that ties into its plot.I envisioned a creepy storybook and puppet show aesthetic to reflect Jericho’s lack of control, as if he were a puppet himself — a theme central to the song.” “To bring this vision to life, I drew inspiration from iconic visuals, including frames from Tim Burton films, movies and cartoon media posters and opening sequences from said movies as well,” they continued.
“Using After Effects, I transformed the assets provided into a cohesive, eerie look.This involved cutting assets into movable pieces, layering color grading to heighten the unsettling mood, and using effects to mimic a stop-motion style by lowering the frame rate.These were just some of the countless creative decisions layered into the project.
The final result turns out as a video that captures the eerie spirit of the song while iterating elements of its underlying plot.”
Enjoy the video!
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
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