In my assignment I planned to create little stories showing morals and animate them.
Whilst Researching I found out that I wasn’t creating stories I was creating fables. So I decided to research into Aesop’s fables and tried to understand his work.
Aesop's Fables"The Aesop's Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620—560 BC), a slave and story-teller that lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular choice for moral education of children today. There are many stories included in Aesop's Fables, such as 'The Fox and the Grapes '(from which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), 'The Tortoise and the Hare', 'The North Wind and the Sun' and 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf', are well-known throughout the world. In the 3rd century AD Apollonius of Tyana,"
(Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop)
Aesop’s Fables contain a short narrative try to illustrate a hidden message.
Each of his fables has a simple moral that hasn’t changed for hundreds of years. For example, the fable of 'The Tortoise and the Hare' declares that: slow and steady wins the race.
I asked myself what is the secret of his fables' appeal and how they are still around today. I started by reading some of his fables and noticed that they are all short, sometimes only a few lines and are never longer than a page. I think that this is why they are still remembered and thought of today.
I also think that part of the appeal is that not only humans, but animals, rodents, fish and even the trees and plants talk within his fables. In stories animals often make more sense than humans. When the animals do something controversial they seem to get away with it. I think that by using animals as characters, Aesop could speak freely and frankly without offending anyone.
Fable"In its strict sense a fable is a short story or folk tale embodying a moral, which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. "Fable" comes from Latin fabula (meaning 'conversation', 'narrative', 'tale') and shares a root with faber, "maker, artificer." Thus, though a fable may be conversational in tone, the understanding from the outset is that it is an invention, a fiction. A fable may be set in verse, though it is usually prose. In its pejorative sense, a fable is a deliberately invented or falsified account."
(Oxford Dictionary)
Maxim "Maxim. A fundamental priniciple or rule. A maxim is a wise saying, especially one intended to advise or recommend a course of conduct. In comparison to its approximate synonyms: saying, adage, saw, motto, epigram, proverb, aphorism, the term maxim stresses the succinct formulation of an ultimate truth, a fundamental principle, or a rule of conduct. The word derives from the Latin word maximus, "greatest", via an expression maxima propositio, "greatest premiss"
(Oxford Dictionary)
I really enjoyed reading and trying to understand Aesop’s fables, I would like to capture some of the magic of his work and translate it into the 21st century. I will try to make my animations more grey than black and white morals so that people can interprate them in different ways. I will start to create more storyboards and more surreal morals.
Story 1 (baby tree)
