THE FIELDS
Because the fields are interacting with the warrior, I had to come up with characters that represent the respective field. Firstly I thought about the creation of some real women character living on the fields. But soon I felt that the charm the story has to convey would suffer through this concrete execution.
So I went more and more abstract. At last those mystic and spectral but also magical and beautiful beings occur in my mind. Finally I used a collage technique to bring them on paper which would make it difficult to animate the figures frame by frame. Thus I decided to get some motion in it by crossfading the most important keyframes and do the creation of most of the animation later in the compositing.
The wild fields
![WF_development Creation](https://nilseckhardt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1_WF_development.jpg)
Development of the main character: the wild fields. At some point it was a consistant decision to show all the fields naked for bringing out their natural being.
The flowerfields
![BF_development Creation](https://nilseckhardt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2_BF_development.jpg)
The flowerfields had to be glamorous and beautiful. I decided to add some butterflies that should always flutter around her.
The other fields
Vegetablefields
![GF_development Creation](https://nilseckhardt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3_GF_development.jpg)
The vegetablefields are my personal favorite. To symbolize fertility of nature I decided they have to be pregnant.
Potatoefields
![KAF_development Creation](https://nilseckhardt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3_KAF_development.jpg)
The potatoefields were the most difficult. They should look like potatoes somehow but have a sexy appearance anyway.
Cornfields
![KOF_development Creation](https://nilseckhardt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/3_KOF_development.jpg)
The cornfields weren’t easy, too. Because of their pretty angular shape they seemed not very attractive to me. So I was glad about the idea for the crown of corn, which makes them looking a little bit like a showgirl.