Last April (2011), over a week long break from work, I startedworking on the song, "A Race to the Center of the Sun". Well...that'snot exactly right.
Most of the musicfrom Foraelia has come in rather chaotic fashion. Usually, I look up from thekeyboard or guitar and wonder, "what the heck (헐) just happened?"
That is...until Irealized how Khepri works.
The song wasreally created in two pieces. (That's usually how my process goes). The firstmajor moment was the aforementioned "night of chaos". The 2nd nightusually helps to carve the blob of feeling into some sort of coherent song.
The speed andenergy of the song made me feel like I was racing. It's that simple. And that'swhen the lyrics: "a race to the center of the sun" came. From there,the idea to depict the origin story of the Chinese zodiac emerged. And on andon...
I talked withPatricia (Patricia Krebs, the production designer) about the idea of doing ananimation. She mentioned that she and Edgar (Edgar Alvarez, the animator) hadbeen wanting to work together for some time.
We pitched theidea to Edgar. He furrowed his brow, bit his lip, and agreed to work with us.
So, the team wasborn...
- Khepri
