Henry Morgan was a privateer who turned pirate. He became a buccaneer commanding over 36 ships and 2,000 buccaneers. With which he took over Panama. He then left it all with his loot and went back to England where he was knighted and sent to govern Jamaica.
I really like this image of Panama. It shows the country as it was when Morgan took it over. Also the image has type on it which will help me in the future looking for type faces that are appropriate to pirates.
Calico Jack - He was a normal privateer until he met his with Anne Bonny, and turned to piracy. They terrorised the Caribbean around the same time of Blackbeard.
Calico Jack is responsible for the stereotypical pirate flag
that we associate with pirates today. This is interesting because
I never actually knew where it had come from.
This is Calico Jack with two other female pirates
that were famous in their time.
Henry Every was a rouge pirate who amassed a huge fleet. A song was composed around his story, he was also nicknames Benjamin Bridgeman:
- In '94 we took the Charles and set Gibson ashore
- And set a course for southern seas, to sail for evermore
- Round the Cape in a hurricane with the devil on our beam
- And clear to Newgate London Town you could have heard us scream:
- Here's to gentlemen at sea tonight, and a toast to all free men
- And when the devil comes to take us home, we'll drink
- To old Long Ben!
- Now off the coast of Hindoostan we spied a musselman
- She'd 60 guns and musket men, but still away she ran
- "Ho!", cried Ben and ran the grinning skull atop the mast
- "I'll wager half my share me lads, there's not a ship this fast!"
- Here's to gentlemen at sea tonight and a toast to all free men
- And when the devil comes to take us home, he'll drink
- With old Long Ben!
- We ran her down off Malabar as she lay becalmed
- And there beneath the burning sun stood Al Ibrahim Khan
- He twirled his 'stache and raised his sword and gave a might roar
- Then cowered like a dog below and hid amongst his whores
- Here's to...
- We turned the Fancy from the wind and ran out 40 guns
- And soon the sky was filled with smoke that hid us from the sun
- Then up and down the ship we fought, until the decks ran red
- And when the fight was done we drank and this is what we said:
- Here's to...
- For thirteen days aboard the Ganj, we made a merry sport
- A thousand pounds of Mughal gold, and whisky, rum and port
- Some men we shot and some we walked and some of them did hang
- And while we made free with the girls, well this is what we sang:
- Here's to...
This is an image of Avery. I really like the textures
created in this image and it is a texture/style/colour i could
possibly use in the future. I find it interesting with all the detail
that is picked out and the gun fight happening in the background.
This is the flag that is connected to Henry Every.
Again it is very simplistic and stereotypical of the
pirate flag. By looking at pirate flags they are very similar apart
from certain things changed to represent certain pirates.
I am going to have to research flags in more detail
because they could be interesting to animate.
Black Bart - The Real Captain Jack Sparrow
"His name was Bartholomew Roberts. The most successful raider in the history of piracy, he took prisoner an astounding 470 vessels, and so renowned was his ferocity that many of those ships were surrendered to him without a fight.
Black Bart was the nickname he was given - and not only because of his black locks and dark eyes. When this swashbuckling Welsh buccaneer had to fight for his prizes, he was merciless.In 1720, the crew of a 42-gun Dutch vessel anchored off Dominica in the Caribbean dared to resist. In the close-quarters cannonade which followed, several of his crew were cut down. Even more were slaughtered in the hand-to-hand fighting as Black Bart?s pirates swarmed over the vessel.Roberts ordered an exemplary revenge. Those Dutchmen who had not been killed in the fighting were hung from the yardarm, or stripped of their shirts and lashed at the masthead until they lost consciousness in the blistering sun, then mutilated.The Dutch captain?s ears were cut off and presented to him as a reminder to listen harder when Roberts told him what to do. The torture and butchery did not end until the last Dutchman had been dragged out and carved up in similar fashion.Roberts renamed the ship the Royal Fortune, and sailed it with his great black flag at the helm, which showed Black Bart standing, with cutlass uplifted, on two skulls, representing his dominance over the islands of Barbados and Martinique.He was one of the many sailors who took to freebooting after his own ship had been captured by pirates.Born in Wales, 325 years ago this month, he went to sea in 1695 at the age of 13. He served on British merchant vessels before fighting in the 1702-1713 War of the Spanish Succession.Apart from a brief mention of him as mate of a Barbados sloop, he is not heard of again until 1719, when he sailed as third mate aboard the slave ship Princess.The Princess was anchored at a small, semi-derelict fort on the Gold Coast of West Africa (present day Ghana) when she was captured by two pirate ships, the Royal James and the Royal Rover, led by another Welshman, Captain Howell Davis.Roberts was said to have been reluctant to be forced into piracy - but he soon saw the point of it.A contemporary quotes Roberts as saying: "In an honest service, there is thin victuals, low wages and hard labour. In this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power..."No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto." "
More information here.
This is a really good insight into Black Bart - He was a well renowned pirate and again there is a lot of imagery surrounding him and what he did. He was defiantly one of the more grotesque pirates that i have looked at. I also like that there is a quote around him and his perspective on piracy this is defiantly something that I would possibly use in my animation designs in the future.
A real letter composed by Black Bart. Not 100% sure
what he says but i like the type and this gives me an insight
into what fonts i could use and the style
they used to use when writing letters etc.
Grace O'Malley was female pirate, she was taunted and joked that she could never sail because she was a girl. So she decided to cut of her hair and turn her clothing into boys. After her 30 years of pirating she was hung after she was caught.
These are the images that i got for Grace, they aren't brilliant and very different. There was a a lot of information about her online but not many pictures which was annoying. If i decided to draw her i would have to do my own design i feel and have some type t help illustrate who she is.
This is another video that relates to Pirates of the Caribbean, i defiantly prefer the look of this type and the quote that is used. Again i think i am going to be using a quote i just need it to be interesting and funny. These are just options that i am exploring. I like the black edge around the screen giving it a focused view on the type. I think the animation is lacking texture, and again isn't that interesting looks at.
Here is some Kinetic typography inspired by a speech from the movie. Now its very basic, i don't think there is anything special to it and the speech isn't that aw inspiring. The reason i am looking at it is to see what i DONT want to do. I want my animation to be more complex than this. I think i want to involve text and quotes from movies but they have to be just right, this would be a good test idea though to make sure that the pace is right within the sequence.
When researching these pirates I am looking for things that can give me inspiration towards the imagery and type i will be using, I am not so concerned about the content. So when i was looking through Blackbeard's history it has given me ideas to look for other things such as the varying pirate ships there were, the weaponry, the maps. All possible things to vectorize and animate.
Blackbeard terrorised the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea from 1716-1718. The process he took was to ransack cabins looking for coins, silver, gold and jewellery. There are a lot of possible imagery based ideas here such as the images related to old fashioned jewellery etc.
"...and the devil knew where it was and the longest liver will take it" - Quote from Blackbeard himself, with regards to where his treasure was buried.
Blackbeard - These are painters ideas of what Blackbeard looked like and who he was. These are the images that i find most interesting. I like the texture that they create and generally they are similar to one another.
These are the images of the Queen Annes Revenge, which was Blackbeard's ship.
Looking at all of this has been useful because it has given me ideas on what i want to research in the future. I want to focus on images that would be easily transferable. I want to do some drawing and then vectorize it and include it in my animation some how and by getting some intricate designs for ships etc would be really useful.
I have decided to do my next project the 'Top 10..' brief on pirates. I want this project to be fun, and i want to find it interesting. I have always enjoyed the pirate culture and the stories that have evolved around them. Obviously the most current stereotypical pirate culture is that that surrounds 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. I will be researching this, to help me find inspiration. But at the moment i want to focus on looking at famous pirates, that were either fictional or real. I have drawn together a small list of famous pirates that actually existed;
Blackbeard
Grace O'Malley
Black Bart
Henry Every
Calico Jack
Henry Morgan
Barbossa
Captain Kidd
Black Bellamy
All of these pirates were either English/Welsh or Irish. This would make sense seeing as the english were ahead of the times compared to other countries when it came to ships and fleets etc. Alot of the piracy that happened was around spain and the Caribbean. The golden age of piracy last just over 100 years and lasted from 1500's to the 1600's. The most commonly used safe holds for pirates were Port Royal and Jamaica.
For the next stage of my research I am going to look into each famous pirate i listed above, and hopefully find out interesting facts and stats that run with them that i could possibly use for some of my project.
(famous pirates)
Today i found this growing elements on creative cow. I think its going to be useful for my research in the future and help me to use this style on some of my animations.
Growing Elements
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