Lay of Leithian Rock Opera (Luthien Animation) Project
This is concept art for an animation project I don't think I'll ever actually have time to do, but I do hope to try. It came from watching ballet clips on Instagram and then finding an ideal piece of music on YouTube:
The soundtrack of Ocarina of Time, but it's a prog rock concept album
The idea is to animate The Lay of Leithian from the Silmarillion as a ballet, using this music. The music, which is about 30 minutes long and is a medly of different music from the Ocarina of Time video game, is broken up into sections that work well as different points in the story.
A major influence in this idea os the cut scenes from early 2000s jrpgs, which didn't have voice acting yet and would instead choreograph non-verbal scenes to depict important story moments. Because of this I would want the entire thing to be non-verbal; there's something elegant about that style to me, and from my limited understanding, ballet seems like a good fit for that style.