A girl puts together an event that everyone thinks is a stunt to break a record, even though she told them it’s a ritual to summon a vast mythic creature.
Music: “Holy Hymn (loop)” by Albert Fernandez
Video description
Video Description: “The Stork That Drank the Stars” Trailer. Duration, 42 seconds. “Holy Hymn (loop)” by Albert Fernandez. Digital drawing. A bird-like creature perched on a tree branch. The body faces left, the head is turned to look forward. The bird has two large rodent-like ears, rodent-like legs, two antennae emerging from the head above the eyes, a large wide beak like that of a shoebill stork, and segments of fur along the chest. Large feathers drape over the bird’s back. Part of the tree is visible at right with one branch arcing over the bird. Watermark of word “Storyfeather” appears along right ear. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Mythology,” is displayed at middle. Tagline is displayed below. It reads: “A girl puts together an event that everyone thinks is a stunt to break a record, even though she told them it’s a ritual to summon a vast mythic creature.” Title card and tagline fade. Lines from the story appear: “The stork could handle being in outer space. But people couldn’t, except the people who were granted special powers by the ancients, a race of god-like beings who were in charge of the earth-world back in those days. The ancients could all handle space travel. They rode around in the stork’s bills to different worlds warmed by different stars.” Site URL appears at bottom center right throughout and fades at end. The title appears at center. Animation of a twinkling star between the last two words of the title. A text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For the tenth year, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
May Base Element:
⚡🧜🏽♀️ MAYTHOLOGY! 🦉🔱
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for May: Mythology
Fusion Element: Handstand
The fusion element actually helped me think of something. What if, there was a mythical creature that supposedly only appeared to you if you did a handstand? Like how in some mythologies, a god appears if you meditate on them long enough, and they grant you a boon. Maybe it’s because this creature believes that a handstand is the ultimate feat of physical prowess. Hmm, extending that… What if there was a person who couldn’t do a handstand themselves, and didn’t think it was safe for anyone to do a handstand for eight days straight the way someone in a myth did. But this person hires a bunch of people to do a handstand at the exact same time for as long as they can, just to see if the creature will appear. Would anyone agree to do this? And why?
How I did the digital drawing for my story, “The Stork That Drank the Stars,” from a sketch to the final art.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Duration, 22 seconds. Digital drawing. A bird-like creature perched on a tree branch. The body faces left, the head is turned to look forward. The bird has two large rodent-like ears, rodent-like legs, two antennae emerging from the head above the eyes, a large wide beak like that of a shoebill stork, and segments of fur along the chest. Large feathers drape over the bird’s back. Part of the tree is visible at right with one branch arcing over the bird. Text at bottom reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays a portion of the starting sketch. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at middle. All text and final image fade to show the starting sketch. Video transitions through several images showing sketch, inking, laying down of base colors, addition of shadows, highlights, textures, and background to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Stork That Drank the Stars” appears at bottom. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears bottom center throughout.
Genre: Mythology
Tags: Amphitheather, Colossal, Handstand, Night Sky, Romy, Stork
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