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I tidy up the storyboard, collect all the changes to the first version so far, so that the music studio will better understand our animation. Also, at the end of the file, we explain a little bit on our concept. AND WE finally come up with a working title: 归去来兮/ To be or not to be Cheers! 
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1. Working Titles
Circle of Life 2. Abstract The Artists will produce a 10-minuste 2D & 3D animation to explore the philosophical beauty behind Taoism. For instance, The animation intends to use the life cycle transferred within fish, water and butterfly to describe one of the basic Taoism idea ‘nonaction’, which means the universe works harmoniously according to its own ways and human mast place their will in harmony with the natural universe. The artists will apply lots of metaphors and depth meaning involved into this dream-like abstract experimental animation. 3. Project Details The story carries on by the transformation of different life formats, which refer to the life circle of nature. At the beginning, the death of a giant whale falling from the sky into the ocean, its waves springing into butterflies. The bunch of butterflies glide across islands and mountains and when they fall upon a withered tree, the tree gets its new birth and bloom again with lively blossoms. One of the butterflies descended onto the lap of an old man dozing off under the tree. He wakes only to find a flower at the very spot he dreamt the butterfly to be. By suddenly changed to the study room, he accidently dropped some ink on paper, shaping like a butterfly. The butterfly came to life on the long scroll and flies among various objects in the study room. The butterfly finally comes out to real after across a screen of huge mountains and waterfalls. Then it flies to the old man and lands on his finger. The old man stares at the butterfly and let it choose its life. The butterfly flies to the roof, becomes a pile of raindrops and slid into the pond, where it becomes a goldfish swimming across the water just like the giant whale did in the sky. (上古有大鱼,其名为鲲。鲲游于天际,雷电劈之, 坠于冥池,须臾阴云四合,风 潇雨晦,久久未平。点点蝶影,若出其中,层层叠叠无穷数。群蝶徙千里,盘桓 于一枯树,落之成花, 花落吹树生,惟一朵飘飘然而下。有一老翁憩树下,手握 长轴,书逍遥游,蝶落长轴骤然成。老翁醒,疑之,执笔欲书所梦。墨落纸成 花,点之成蝶。栩栩然游于纸上,若出,一入莲画波光动,二入鱼盘引鱼跃,三 入疑其是水,是蝶,是花。蝶飞无踪,水落平檐,滴水成鱼。) The animation can be seen as the visualization of Taoism, with each character holding various metaphors. The tr``ansference within fish, water and butterfly indicates the life cycle in the naturalness. The perfect of this circulation and the action of the old man shadow the theory of unity of heaven and man (). Additionally, the death is regarded as the start of another life (), which is visualized by the death of whale and the birth of butterfly from the water. The combination of the virtuality and reality in the dream-like setting, as well as the image of butterfly refer to the story ‘In Dream With the Butterfly ()’ and provide a route to communicating life and death. The alternating change happened in the study room between the objects and reality indicates the spiritual thoughts wandering around objects (). The setting of the animation, in a garden on the high mountain, also holds depth meaning. Taoism see streams and mountain () as paradise and a path to achieve immortality. 4. Research I am responsible for pre-production research, the study room scene design, the Taoism theory applied in our animation, the behind meaning of each metaphors and the techniques for post-production. More research can be found here: https://www.pinterest.com/denianouyang/fyp_reference/ https://www.pinterest.com/denianouyang/fyp-big-fish/ 5. Schedule * Group : CHEN Zong (Dorothy), OUYANG Denian (Denian), ZhANG Sijing (Vera) 6. Reference list Cheng, G. (2009). Dao jia shi xue. Jiang su: Jiangsu people publisher. Moore, J. (2003). Taoism: Origins, beliefs, practices, holy texts, sacred places. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Saso, M. (1990). Taoism and the rite of cosmic renewal (2nd ed.). Pullman, Wash.: Washington State University Press. Zhuang, Z. (2009). Zhuang zi (Di 1 ban. ed.). Beijing: Zhong hua shu ju. Wu, J. (1991). Yi jing. Washington, D.C.: Taoist Center ;. 7. Attached other material * Pre-production Study Room [Concept Art] Treasure Shelf [lay out] Progress 8. Meeting sign sheet Dorothy works so efficient, high quality storyboard almost finished, and I start to do animatic. I'm a little bit worry about the sound...  
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WE HAD THE MEETING IN SCHOOL'S LIBRARY ( I WAS LATE, MISREMEMBER THE MEETING PLACE AS CMC...). AS I SUGGEST YESTERDAY, EVERYONE THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY REALLY WANT TO DO FOR IN THIS ANIMATION IF THIS IS OUR LAST ANIMATION WORK. WRITE DOWN SOME KEYWORD OR ELEMENT. MINE IS HERE: 天空中的大鱼，龟背上的客栈，车站，水墨 IN OUR BRAINSTORM, WE MENTIONED WALL PAINTING IN DUNHUANG 敦煌壁画 庄周梦蝶 逍遥游 大鱼从天坠落 AND HERE IS OUR RESULT FOR DISCUSSION 晴天->阴天，云，下雨，雨水变成鱼（START） 园林（大气） 乌龟背上的园林（ENDING） 逍遥游，庄子，梦蝶， DOCUMENTARY THE SEA 雨滴（慢动作）-倾盆大雨 屋檐下的画 鹿角 树枝 文鳐鱼 鸟 物我合一 仙鹤 HOME ASSIGNMENT: THINK ABOUT MORE ELEMENT OR OBJECT CAN SWITCH BETWEEN EACH OTHER, THINK ABOUT THE SEQUENCE, HOW THE STORY SHOULD BE NARRATIVE. 12AM Library, with Vera We were sink in the books. I grab lots of book on Traditional Chinese literature eager to find inspirations. My original thought on FYP ( when we are not yet a group), is telling a story of journey of a BIG FISH, who can fly. This idea came from the Internship I did in Summer for a Animation Film which gonna come out next year called 大鱼海棠. I also draw a picture on this imagination. And after saw another short animation video, and based on the stories I read on Chinese Monsters and Ghosts, I have another story here:   I told Dorothy and Vera about my idea about the BIG FISH when we hang out (Pizza's great).
And the story seems to be interesting. We start to think about to group for FYP. So far, the story is not complicated, but we have an idea on the beginning of the animation. 广阔无垠的海面上，大雨欲来，有什么在风云间游走。忽而，一将死大鱼（鲲鹏，逍遥游）垂天而落，顷刻间，大雨倾盆，水中出现一条条小鱼（大鱼变化而生） |
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