Maisie Williams Gets Close To Wildlife In CORVIDAE With A Gallery Of Art And Photos

De Ville spent a long time with storyboard artist David Lupton, who will apparently also be making an animated title sequence. I've always enjoyed stories that look at the darker side of children and the natural world, ones that don't disney-fy animals and are able to find that animal nature in children. De Ville says that they wanted a more earthy, naturalistic approach to the story, with the kind of imagery found in older European folk tales.

The plan for the soundtrack (as there is no dialogue) is to use rural instruments to emphasize the bleakness, with some electronic undercurrent (de Ville, who also occasionally works around London as a popular DJ, cites Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson as an influence).

This kind of contemporary rural gothic story is this kind you can only find in Europe, especially the UK; there is the history there, and the kind of landscape, that makes one think of children connected to animals in strange and mystic ways.