Pre-production: Research on Fables

I firstly wanted to research into fables. I originally heard of fables through a fairytale adaptation, I wanted to make sure that I understood what the original fables were, so that I didn't get confused.

What are fables?

Fables are short stories that are used to teach children a lesson about a particular moral. The characters in these stories are usually animals who act and talk like people, while retaining their animal trait.

How will you be adapting the fables?

Me and Sei-Kai will be choosing three fables and will take out the morals/meanings in them and create whole new storylines. Our fables will be much darker than the ones told for children, and will be for young adults and older. These fables will contain dark fantasy and horror traits and will also have at least one character that is supernatural.

There are hundreds of fable stories to choose from, however to make things a little easier, Sei-Kai brought in a book (image below) that contained some stories. Now we just need to choose our fables and create some story ideas.