Our group’s origin story for elephant and castle starts with a man late to a chess match, when he arrives one of his knights is missing so he uses a painted elephant souvenir from his home country of India to replace it. The man wins the match by checkmating the opponents king with his elephant piece and his castle piece thus giving Elephant and Castle its name.
My work on the project:
Illustrations I created for story development on the project, they tell the story of a man late for a competitive chess match who uses an elephant souvenir in his bag as one of the pieces. The two characters in these pieces are developped from my initial sketches
Short animation by me of the man from my illustrations turning his elephant chess piece around to reveal its form to the viewer. This was used as the introduction in the final video