Graduates

Ethan Chang

BFA in Illustration - Motion Illustration — Illustration
Course:
GMOT-403 Sequential Design 3
Faculty:
Ara Devejian

The Murder of a Murder

There was a scarecrow who stood up on a hill, constantly harassed by a murder of crows it was meant to scare off. It stayed still and quiet, with no complaints. One day, the scarecrow suddenly grabbed a crow by the neck, shocking the others and sending them into fight or flight. It grabbed and tortured the crows that had annoyed it for so long. Eventually, the scarecrow ate them up and all that remained on the field was nothing but the scarecrow, plump and full, with a pile of bones.
Learning Outcomes:
I wanted empathy in this project to run two ways. One way for the tortured scarecrow and its even darker downfall into the villain and the other for the crows and how their mistreatment becomes the result of their deaths. While difficult to figure out the story path from bad to worse, it was an exciting challenge to figure out narratives can go downhill even more.
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