The Cat and the Bow

Hello everyone,

I don´t know why I find cats so fascinating, they are so pretty and majestic, I knew from the beginning I wanted a cat to be the principal in one of our videos. I started thinking story lines and most of them had a cat as a main character.

"The Cat and the Bow" was our first video, I didn't had any kind of tool to draw on the computer and I never had it before, I was a paper kind of person. 

We film it during the night, it was pretty unusual for me as I couldn't relax completely. The camera was behind me so I couldn't move forward or I would cover the pictures, and also I couldn't move the paper while drawing. But everything turn out pretty well to be the first one.

I was trying the sleep when the idea for this plot came to my mind. I thought that you can't really tell the sex of a cat, when you see it with a bow on the top of their head you will think is a girl, however if the bow is under the head like a bow tie you will think it is a boy. How we allocate gender to something depending on where a bow is?

I feel we allocate a very specific gender role to the kids from the beginning, blue for baby boys and pink for baby girls, the boys are brute and girls are princesses. 

I remember been asked a lot if I was a boy or a girl when I was a kid, I had short hair and always wear pants, nothing too feminin but I was not completely a tom boy. Random people at school used to ask me what I was, that dind't bother me at all, I used to think that makes me special. 

My idea was not to give a name to the cat, just name it Cat or Kitten, as this words won't give you any clue on the gender. But Felipe thought naming the cat Naru was a good a idea as for him Naru could work for both sexes and we would also honor our dear cat.

So Naru is a real cat, is our two year old kitten, who inspired the first story of this project.

With love,

Marina

Butterfly

Hello guys,

Butterfly is a video I was very excited about while doing it, but I was not very excited about it when we finished it, I feel I might share too much about myself, I wanted to name it "The Struggle" as for me this is what it is about.

I always carry with me a little notebook where I write sometimes, I don't write there very often but I found it very useful, it really helps you to liberate yourself. Writing down your feelings helps you to keep them in the paper and not on your mind.

So basically Butterfly express a bad moment in my life, that kind of moment we all have and makes us feel weak. I want to remind you that bad moments make you stronger and you have to keep fighting because you can do it!

If you want to check out the video Buttefly click below:

And if you want to enjoy the music on the video:

With love,

Marina

Skin

     Hi everyone, we are Draw a Tale and we just start our blog :D

     Here is one of our favorite videos from our you tube channel, we will keep updating the blog with all the videos and news from our creations!

How Skin happened:

It is funny how ideas come to your head, I was running on a treadmill in the gym when the idea

for this video came to me.

I was with the headphones on while I was watching the music video from Daft Punk & Michel Gondry for their song "Around the World".

In this video few guys dressing as skeletons dance, and then something click on my mind, <<maybe they are dressing as skeletons because the want to fit in a world full of skeletons>>, being a skeleton would be what is "normal" and not being one is weird. In a second I picture in my brain this little kid with a skeleton costume, trying too hard to be like the rest.

With this story I want to tell people that it is ok to be different, even if your differences are visible or not it is fine, you don't have to change or pretend to fit, keep being different because that it was makes you special.

With love,

Marina