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Thank you Quote Investigators!

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/

In conclusion, I found that this saying has been quoted many times in history. There are also a lot of variations of the authors that's been credited to. In the end, I think the best choice for credits would be "CREE PROVERB". 

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Also, here's a bit of research for what was traded for the oolichan fish:

Research on First Nation portrayal and stuff...

http://maps.fphlcc.ca/
This is the website Lou Ann provided me with, I found all the tribe names around the Enbridge pipeline.

I went to the Aboriginal Centre at the back of school cafe and I met Lou Ann. She was nice enough to give me feedback on my character designs. She also provided me links to start my research.
http://www.ecuad.ca/people/profile/135649

Lou Ann educated me on the actual usages of Indigenous accessories. All in all, it is hard to represent all the Native tribes with just one or two accessories, the safest way to go is to use just add long hair and braids.  

A recent example of Indigenous misrepresentation.

Many accessories aren't daily wears but for special occasions only.

Again, other than ceremonial purposes, First Nation's daily looks are simple as they are.

The photography of Edward S. Curtis shows a genuine portrayal of the First Nations people in B.C.

The First Nation people appears twice in our animation, the second time as protesters. For this, i believe it is safest to study real life Enbridge protestors.

The Canoe should make it obvious enough that they are the Native people. The Protestors are referenced off of the photos above. They are fully gears in their cultural clothing, it serves as a sharp contrast to their simple looks from their first appearance.

Studies of canoe carvings

I referenced off of the Eagle design as the safest choice for canoe art.

Yes, they use both spears and nets for fishing.

Net-fishing.

This is an underwater fish trap.

Making oolichan grease is actually a pretty complicated procedure, so for animation's sake, I will just portray it like the grease is getting rinsed out of the fish.

***Btw, I carefully checked my website and photos to make sure they are from believable sources. I also double checked the tribe names to make sure i'm not looking at any American First Nations (their way of dressing is different).

And so the production begins...

The renewed storyboards are here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ps0lpkbi3t61d3a/AABq-DOFvJ42f9DnmPt2vxAia?dl=0

My Flash tool setting

Model sheet for characters (will make more later)

Wednesday night is the cut off date, I will assemble everything on thursday but i may not do that every other week, depending on how much free time i have.

I tried to assign similar scenes to the same person. Also, i didn't let multiple people work on the same scene, as in case one person delays everyone else behind. Everyone's responsible for the character animations in the scene, I'll add backgrounds after everyone finishes.

Storyboarding + More Researches

Storyboard is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ps0lpkbi3t61d3a/AABq-DOFvJ42f9DnmPt2vxAia?dl=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnbf4gRjHT4

CEPA's members include the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Connection... connection...

Ok so the grey line will be the Enbridge pipeline, but it's like 600 km away from Vancouver. Where is that connection...?

Et Voilà ~ Fraser River connects the pipeline to us!

Andddd guess what, Steveston is located at the mouth of the Fraser River.

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/animal-facts/animals.asp?region=bc

http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/pipeline-incidents/

By comparing to the previous nation-wide leak graph (in the last 12 years), Vancouver has had three leaks. Clearly, the result of the leaks weren't catastrophic enough, because the urban citizens are still very indifferent on the pipeline issue.

Due to the above reasons, I feel it is necessary to include an oil apocalyptic Vancouver scenario.

Did I miss anything?

inspiration for the look of the business man, this is taken from UP

reference for factory, we can do more than this!

Further Thoughts

I was very interested by Tom's suggestion last week on how we should view the matter from the oil's perspective. Oil is neutral, it only became problematic and "bad" when people started mining, transporting and making profits out of it.

If oil becomes a character, the first thing I related it to is Muk from pokemon. He is essentially a slime monster. However, I feel that it is important to eliminate any emotion of the oil in order to stay neutral. The oil character should be something like a rag doll, he doesn't decide what he wants, where he is going, and he doesn't respond to anything that's happening. He simply observes.

slime animation can be really fun and is doable both in 3D (rigging challenge!) and 2D

Muk is a great inspiration for me because I want the character to be just as simple as Muk, maybe even simpler. Speaking of simple characters, the first thing that comes to mind is Lucas Bleackley Petter's animation. In his work - "The Mountain", the character has no mouth and the eyes are pretty much responsible for all of its emotion.

Everyone's animation ability is different in this class, but one thing I know for sure is that everyone's done the flour sack exercise. So if that is the case, then everyone should be able to animate a character as simple as the oil.

After thinking about the character, I thought about the technical aspect of the animation. Since our class has a pretty good balance of 2D and 3D animators (plus a couple illustrators), I imagine it would be likely that we will eventually merge 2D and 3D animation. In that case, a great reference film is Salesman Pete:

http://vimeo.com/15126262

Somebody last week also mentioned the idea to do an info graphic type of video, or we can have info graphic aspects merged into animations later on. Anyhow, here are some inspirations I found:

bold and rich colors are used effectively to distinguish one thing from another

motion graphics makes statistics and facts less boring to watch

anyone good at AFX?

I made a couple scenes demonstrating how the oil character might look like and how he will likely behave.

http://www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/pipeline_mining_s.mov
http://www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/pipeline_traveling_s.mov
http://www.ecuad.ca/~qwang12829/movies/pipeline_pollution_s.mov

 A little research I did on understanding the structure of the oil mine.