This is my 2nd, and last, entry for the 2010 Supernatural BigBang. This time it is for "Over the Hills and far away" by hansons_angel@livejournal. "Over the Hills and far away" has been my first claim for the BB, but it goes online last.

Why did I pick this fiction? well, as you can see, when you check the name of the community, this title has a special meaning to me. To say it would not have been the reason why I choose to give this fiction a closer look, this would be a lie. At the end I call myself lucky I took it, not only because of the title.

"Over the Hills and far away" was able to move me on many levels. Because of personal reasons, reasons which I`m not going to get into. After, and while, reading I was a crying mess. The video tore me into pieces while working on it. Although this was one of the hardest pieces of art I`ve ever worked on, I won`t say it is a bad thing. Sometimes one just has to face the fears. While working on the art for "Over the Hills and far away" I was able to face some of my demons, this was a step foreward for me.

For this years BigBang I, somehow, managed to pick up AU and death fics left and right. And although "There`s a part of me in you" moved me already, this fiction did so even more. It is closer to reality, I think this is the reason why. This year was a challenge, for sure. I`ve tried my best to picture it, with the graphics and the video. Picture some of the emotions, picture my feelings.

I want to say THANK YOU to hansons_angel for writing such an awesome piece of fanfiction!

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Title: "Over the Hills and far away" by hansons_angel

Summary: This isn’t a story about the Apocalypse. It’s not even really a story about demon hunting and the supernatural, though all these things are featured. It’s an AU story about the deep bond that brothers have, and the lengths they’ll go to for each other, beginning when Sam and Dean Winchester are children, and Sam needs a kidney transplant. It’s not about one brother over the other, but the idea that, without one brother there isn’t the other. It’s an exploration of sacrifice and unconditional love, the study of what family can mean -- what it should mean. It’s about love and despair, fear and grief, anger and heroism and ultimately -- hope.

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The rest of the art, and the video link, can be found here:

first (random) things first:

I always think Nightwish when I read "Over the HIlls and far away". This song is my 2nd all time favorite Nightwish song (my favorite would be NEMO), and this song is the reason why I named the comm like I did. And this song was what made me check the fiction some more once the BigBang claim entry was online. Apparently, and this I found out later, it is not the song hansons_angel had in mind when it comes with the title, tja ...

Nightwish "Over the Hills and far away"

The graphics:

I`ve tried several versions with the cover, at the end I choose the very first I had done. Changed it until I was happy with the result. The base picture wasn´t the best to work with, sorry. I wish I would have been able to get my hands on a HQ version. I`ve lost all data during a PC crash not this long go, and couldn`t locate a better quality pic anymore.

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WALLPAPER 1024x768

Some weeks ago I`ve played around with PS CS2, did some color testing, and because I liked the result I`ve put those pictures online. Only after hansons_angel mentioned that the line would be perfect to go with "Over the Hills and far away" I really got what I did. Until then it was just a random color try. So I took one of those pics, turned it into a wallpaper, and included it. Because yes, she`s correct, it fits, 100%

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this is the 2nd, and last, wallpaper. It was the first piece that was finished, and I didn`t change the first draft anymore.

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Last, the Video. It is an "inspiered by". I took the love and loss emotions, and ran with it. This is a full vid, not a trailer !

it is a German language song, I`ve included a translation within the vid post.

animation is based on the video

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Program used: Ulead Videostuido 10+
Title: "Haltet die Welt an" by Glashaus
Lenght: 3.54 min.
File: 29+ MB WMV

More info, and the dl/streaming link, can be found here:CLICK CLICK

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Program used:

- PaintShopPro9

- Animation Shop 3

- Ulead Videostudio 10+

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And with this the neverending entry comes to an end.

I want to thank both, hansons_angel and adarkreflection, for being as awesome as they are, for making this years Supernatural BigBang special. Thank you for your trust, thank you for letting me do as I want to do.

Both have written stories that are awesome from start to finish, both have been able to move me with what they have done.

THANK YOU !!!

I call myself lucky I´ve ended up doing arts for "Over the Hills and far away" and "There`s a part of me in you" this year. I really hope a lot of people will give both stories a try, despite the fact that both are GEN.

because, sometimes *even* GEN is made of awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU for reading this entry of mine, enjoy "Over the Hills and far away"