Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

This is my first experiment in the Poser program in getting a model to lip synch speech. The sound track is Dylan Thomas himself reading his (part of) his poem "Fern Hill."

I had a whole beautiful video planned out in my head for this with backgrounds illustrating the poem and the speak gradually turning from an old man to a young one, but I realized it would take forever on a single home PC so I put it aside. Maybe I'll finish it someday.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• poser
• animation
• dylan
• thomas
• lip
• synch
• poetry
• fern
• hill

[dolanlj]

Why is he naked?

[billym99]

ah, because at the time i did the tests I had no clothes for the figure! and no hair... later I got these things so he will have hair and clothes.

[Eddlap]

is that the voice of Dylan Thomas?

[billym99]

Yes, it is a recording of Thomas reading the poem I found on the web. It was always one of my favorite poems. Recently I read a biography of Thomas and about how he worked so carefully on every phrase, hours or days on a single phrase!

[bpyrad]

oh, what of you

Dylan of Wales

who took words dying in lace and dust

and threw them out under the stars of mighty night

and threw them, wrung them 'round the crashing chained and harnessed sea

and wrung them thrice round the lofty and roaring moon

and tore down every banner that blocks the light

gone too soon

[skanemermaid]

Fuck. You left out the last stanza.

[danocable]

great, good pick.

[choixuts]

without dylan thomas we would have had a weaker bob dylan, and the world a poorer place.. dylan thomas -- the best voice of any poet I've heard read his stuff.

[kimbeep]

you shouldn't have cut off the end of the poem

[mossfitz]

@aggressivegeek It expresses an ecstatic nostalgia - looking back, from the point of view of someone burned by life, at how wonderous it was as a child, fresh and new to the world and knowing nothing of death and the traps life has in store for us.

Fern Hill itself is, i think,  a lovely place where he spent his childhood holidays - it sounds idyllic - even the name.

[brelfan]

Less poetic version: female's perspective. "Mosquitos bit my ass. I tried to push him off."

[brelfan]

I'm guessing it's about youth and losing one's virginity.

[amotspheres]

That's Dylan Thomas himself reading his greatest poem albeit here incomplete.

[closertofiftythanyew]

No doubt.

As it does for all jealous, unimaginative, brainwashed people in the count...., world of ours.

[aggressivegeek]

Im 15, im finding it hard to understand him.

Im sure it all means something on a metophoric level though.