Hero's Journey

[PyTom]

A fun short animation based on Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces.

[FlawedFlare]

This video is beautiful and extremely helpful! Thanks for sharing, PyTom!!

[OokamiKasumi]

The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler, is an excellent book specifically for Writers that explains the story structure of The Hero's Journey with examples from modern movies, and how to use the Hero's Cycle in your own work. It also covers the characters commonly found in hero tales.

Video by the author: http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/ ... nt_fb_link

HOWEVER!!!
-- If you go back to Campbell's book; Hero with a Thousand Faces, you will discover that Vogler's book, and just about every article you'll find on the 'net about The Hero's Journey including the video PyTom posted, only covers three-quarters of the actual hero's cycle. The very beginning, and the very end are left out.

Image from: Hero with 1000 Faces

Also, The Hero's Journey, is strictly an Adventure cycle. It doesn't work for those writing Romances because the path of love and romance follows a different set of foundational myths entirely.

Base myths for Adventure:
Epic of Gilgamesh --> Hercules --> Jack and the Beanstalk

Base myths for Romance:
Descent of Innana --> Cupid & Psyche --> Beauty & the Beast

[Auro-Cyanide]

Extra Credits also did two videos on The Hero's Journey which takes a bit of a different look at it

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/th ... ney-part-1
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/th ... ney-part-2

[LittleAngel]

I feel inspired! Time to work even harder!