Of carps and dragons

Pheww... I thought that I would never manage to finish this video. ^^ Sorry for being so late. Editing the audio took a very long time... (12 audio layers...)

Song: cover of DanielGardner's "Carry Me".
The mp3 is in stereo, but I think it was reduced to mono on the video file (that's why it sounds a bit weird...or maybe it's because of the low-frequency sound amplification).
Original song (waaaaaaaay better ^^) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jv92Ajb30U

Drawings: in Asia, carps are said to be brave animals. I've heard of a legend about a carp which managed to jump up the Dragon Gate (I don't remember all the details) and was transformed into a dragon, as a reward.
It can be understood as a metaphor standing for the ability to overcome life's difficulties.

The dragon here is inspired from a japanese statue.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• carp
• dragon
• gandalf
• lenniegallagher
• drawing
• painting

[sainter1]

nice, Lenaig, I enjoyed all of your hard work...great story, too :D

[LennieGallagher]

Thanks :)

[Minniver]

Beautiful art, Lennie, my husband and I collect dragons, well, not real ones, he loves them. Anyway, really nice art and music.

[LennieGallagher]

Thank you, Deb. A collection of real dragons would take up too much room, I assume ;)

Thanks for taking the time to drop by and comment.

[DeXimE]

Right, nice one ;P

(don't know any other Dragons tho, but don't tell anybody mmkay)

[LennieGallagher]

lol *thinks hard*

Well, no, not necessarily cocky: the comment can also be understood as follows: "As a dragon, I know many other dragons quite well and I can assert that they rock." ^^

[DeXimE]

lol, yeah get another ice cream ;P

Now reading back, my Dragon comment sounded kinda cocky...

[LennieGallagher]

Thank you, you rock indeed ^^

Err... Ice cream? (see above) *runs to the refrigerator*

[DeXimE]

Bah, dono why but somehow I didn't notice this video earlier. It may sound easy [and it is, lol] but I fully agree with the comments above me! You would do fine being an illustrator imo :)

Dragons Rock. I know because I am one ;P

[Magnulus]

Wow, yeah I remember that! Well, the dragon really does look nifty. Your linework in general has improved a lot since the early work as well. ^_^