Why don't very skilled anime pro users make a feature flim

jackass · Post by **jackass** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:07 am

Thank you for your inspiring words areyouguystiwns. I've been doing chacter design for the flim that why you havn't heared from me. As for heyvern im not making a feature flim for money nor status. I like a challenge that's all. Plus you make more money on series than movies since a movies is more likely to fade from populariety than a series. Making a movie is more risky than a short that i know. But i could make my movie in bits like series making it easier to deal with the work load.

synthsin75 · Post by **synthsin75** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:24 am

Thanks for showing up again Jackass. Just as I thought, you seem perfectly capable of picking and choosing what advise you deem useful. No use us trying to color our opinions to fit your age.

With determination that can brush off any naysayers, you're ahead of the game.

billamu · Post by **billamu** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:27 pm

Well done Areyouguystwins, that's the spirit!

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:52 am

jackass wrote:a movies is more likely to fade from populariety than a series. Making a movie is more risky than a short that i know. But i could make my movie in bits like series making it easier to deal with the work load.

Exactly! That works. Do it as a series and then you can stitch it together as a movie later. Edit it down.

-vern

wanderingtaoist · Post by **wanderingtaoist** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:40 am

Aww, I'm inspired. I say go for it. Throw it out to the universe and see what happens. At the very least, there's no teacher like experience, it's the journey not the destination, and other philosophical babble, yada yada yada, etc.

Btw Heyvern, it's Tashi. You helped me out with a corrupted file some time back. I lost my password, the email I used to sign up no longer exists, so getting my old account back was impossible. But I was impressed with the kid's testicular fortitude, so I decided to post.

areyouguystwins · Post by **areyouguystwins** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:34 am

billamu wrote:Well done Areyouguystwins, that's the spirit!

Thanks billamu!

To jackass: You have the right idea, make your film in parts. That's what we did, 72 different "scenes" (anime files), combined to 3 "acts" (3 wmv files), then to one final film on dvd (combining the 3 wmv files).

You can do it!

Rhoel · Post by **Rhoel** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:13 am

areyouguystwins wrote: You have the right idea, make your film in parts. That's what we did, 72 different "scenes" (anime files), combined to 3 "acts" (3 wmv files), then to one final film ...

We did this on the Billy the cat series, combining several story lines, then adding bridging animation to patch the holes. The music needed some reworking but dialogue and animation was comparatively straight forward.

At least with ASP, there's no need to worry about colour grading variations from episode to episode.

Ahh, the good ole days of 35mm film.... 6-plate Steinbecks, tape splicing blocks, edge numbers and chinagraph pencils.

Rhoel

jackass · Post by **jackass** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:51 am

Now Im writing each sceen out then sketching them. I want to make sure each sceen I make tells the story and establish the personality of chacters and builds emotion. I saved up my money to 120 dolllars. With that I can buy some animation books, Magix movie Magix music maker and drawing books. I have a microphone and wave pad is free.

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:35 am

Cool, I have save about 5000, and plan to do the voice recording on a 120 page script next month when I'm on vacation from 5/1 to 6/15.

Good luck with your project.

Dale

jackass · Post by **jackass** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 3:33 am

Good luck with your project too dueyftw. I have a slight problem with my story. In the begining the story is about the main charater childhood happy warm cute then turns violent, dark, and scary when is village is taken over a sadistic general. Would the viewers accept the change.

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 5:53 am

Who cares what the viewers will accept. Who even KNOWS what they will accept or even like. Unless you plan to do expensive time consuming focus groups and design your story around what people think they want you tell your story the way YOU the ARTIST want it to be told.

This is what is ruining hollywood. Studios show a movie to a group and then change it to suit the "comment cards". Terrible way to create.

The storyline you described is the same story line of many successful movies. You can't show the contrast of good and evil if you don't show both elements. You need the happy fun story to start with to show what is lost when the evil antagonist is introduced.

If the violent aspects are too "adult" in nature just make sure you market it and describe it properly. You wouldn't promote it based on the beginning happy part but on the whole story line or the bulk of the story.

-vern

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:28 pm

Know your audience. Mine project is for 8 to 12 year old's. I had to tone a lot down, remove and change from the first draft. The other thing is to be orginal. Animation allows more freedom than another movie medium. If your audience loves blood and gore, go for it. And you don't have to have it they way others would do it. An example is, I was watching a Plymptom toon where a man is getting ready for sex and pull open his pants, and their is a monster truck, then a ship, a race car. So he kept his film from being a nc17 to an r

Dale

realsnake · Post by **realsnake** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:00 pm

jackass wrote:Good luck with your project too dueyftw. I have a slight problem with my story. In the begining the story is about the main charater childhood happy warm cute then turns violent, dark, and scary when is village is taken over a sadistic general. Would the viewers accept the change.

wow! this is going to be really interesting, tell everything how he got consumed by the hatred and vengeance from the very beginning...

jackass · Post by **jackass** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:59 pm

Yeah that a good idea realsnake. The story comming to me very easily each sceen i can see in my mind . Now to make those images soild. You guys know where I can buy a storyboard sketch books.

dm · Post by dm » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:32 pm

http://www.animationmeat.com/templates/templates.html

print them out yourself, or go to a decent art store (you could try dickblick.com)

http://www.celtx.com/ is some free software