temple of the witch - Tomb of Ash https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/tag/temple-of-the-witch/ Award-Winning Videogames Blog Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:46:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TOA-link-head-120-48x48.png temple of the witch - Tomb of Ash https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/tag/temple-of-the-witch/ 32 32 Lara’s Diary: Baba Yaga https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/if-you-played-baba-yaga-temple-of-the-witch-dlc/ Thu, 17 Mar 2016 22:22:09 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/if-you-played-baba-yaga-temple-of-the-witch-dlc/ If you played Baba Yaga Temple of the Witch DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider you might be interested to watch this Soviet Film that tells a story of Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful). The video has subtitles in many languages including English. A merchant had a daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the […]

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]]> If you played Baba Yaga Temple of the Witch DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider you might be interested to watch this Soviet Film that tells a story of Vasilisa Prekrasnaya (Vasilisa the Beautiful). The video has subtitles in many languages including English.

A merchant had a daughter, who was known as Vasilisa the Beautiful. When the girl was eight years old, her mother died. On her deathbed, she gave Vasilisa a tiny wooden doll with instructions to give it a little to eat and a little to drink if she were in need, and then it would help her. As soon as her mother died, Vasilisa gave it a little to drink and a little to eat, and it comforted her.After a time, her father remarried; the new wife was a woman with two daughters. Vasilisa’s stepmother was very cruel to her, but with the help of the doll, she was able to perform all the tasks imposed on her. When young men came wooing, the stepmother rejected them all because it was not proper for the younger to marry before the older, and none of the suitors wished to marry Vasilisa’s stepsisters.One day the merchant had to embark on a journey. His wife sold the house and moved them all to a gloomy hut by the forest. One day she gave each of the girls a task and put out all the fires except a single candle. Her older daughter then put out the candle, whereupon they sent Vasilisa to fetch light from Baba Yaga’s hut.

Vasilisa the Beautiful at the Hut of Baba Yaga, by Ivan Bilibin

Also check out our Lara’s Diary Project where Lara studies the myth of Baba Yaga in preparation for her upcoming adventure; the Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC – Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch.

Starring the original Lara Croft voice actress Shelley Blond [Tomb Raider (1996), Peep Show]

 

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]]> https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/earlier-this-year-i-had-the-pleasure-to-work-with/ Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:20:45 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/earlier-this-year-i-had-the-pleasure-to-work-with/ Earlier this year I had the pleasure to work with a few talented people on a short animation in which Lara tells the story of Baba Yaga. I was inspired by the then-upcoming DLC for the Rise of the Tomb Raider (Baba Yaga – Temple of the Witch) and as someone who grew up with […]

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]]> Earlier this year I had the pleasure to work with a few talented people on a short animation in which Lara tells the story of Baba Yaga. I was inspired by the then-upcoming DLC for the Rise of the Tomb Raider (Baba Yaga – Temple of the Witch) and as someone who grew up with my grandma telling me Russian fairy tales I wanted to tell the myth from my own perspective.
I approached Shelley Blond, the original voice actress for Lara in Tomb Raider (1996) with this idea and she kindly agreed to voice Lara once again. She already voiced Lara for me in my E3 video and to be fair I just couldn’t imagine anyone else as Lara’s voice for this project.

I then asked Inna to draw me a few sketches and she gladly did so (see above).

Jonathon, who wrote the music for my E3 video, agreed to compose the music for this project. He perfectly captured the Slavic motifs.

And so after a few sleepless nights and many pages of handwritten text I’ve put together this animation in After Effects. 

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A few Tomb Raider fansite admins and fans offered their help with translating this video:

  • Bulgarian Subtitles by Tomb Raider Passion
  • Croatian Subtitles by Ana Schindler 
  • German Subtitles by Lara’s Generation
  • Russian Subtitles by Laracroft.ru
  • French Subtitles by Brice Jeunieaux

Lastly, the video featured on the official Tomb Raider Blog, Twitter and Facebook.

I’m very grateful to everyone who was involved in this! Here’s the result of our work:

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]]> https://www.tomb-of-ash.com/join-lara-as-she-studies-the-myth-of-baba-yaga-in/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:00:54 +0000 http://ashkaprielov.co.uk/join-lara-as-she-studies-the-myth-of-baba-yaga-in/ Join Lara as she studies the myth of Baba Yaga in preparation for her upcoming adventure; the Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC – Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch. Starring the original Lara Croft voice actress Shelley Blond [Tomb Raider (1996), Peep Show] and featuring incredible artwork by Inna Vjuzhanina! Bulgarian Subtitles by Tomb […]

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]]> Join Lara as she studies the myth of Baba Yaga in preparation for her upcoming adventure; the Rise of the Tomb Raider DLC – Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch.

Starring the original Lara Croft voice actress Shelley Blond [Tomb Raider (1996), Peep Show] and featuring incredible artwork by Inna Vjuzhanina!

Bulgarian Subtitles by Tomb Raider Passion

German Subtitles by Lara’s Generation

Croatian Subtitles by Tomb Raider Empire 

Rise of the Tomb Raider and Baba Yaga Temple of the Witch out now on Xbox 360 and Xbox One and PC.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

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