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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 12, 2006 18:48:46 GMT -5
I absolutely love forum RPing, but sometimes I just get an urging for something more. I am dying to see my character(s) actually move on their own or to be able to visually control them, and an ideal situation with that would be in some kind of multiplayer game with all of you guys, but there seems to be nothing i can come close to along these lines.
3D Modeling and game-making programs?
Hexing in Petz?
Manual animation?
Flash animation?
Pixel animations?
Furcadia? You can't even be as custom as one would like on there..
SecondLife?
I can't seem to find the right thing. It doesn't even have to be fancy, either, but I'm just dying to really bring my characters to life. Any ideas? Or perhaps any ideas to branch off of the already mentioned? Anything we could all take part in?
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Post by River on Jul 12, 2006 18:55:10 GMT -5
Animation is something that seems really appealing but how we could possibly make it work is beyond me. It takes a lot of time to make a single animation...
However, if we all worked together, we might be able to create a little animated movie using our characters. Have one background artist, one storyboarder person, a few people actually animating and someone who could take the files and put them all together and maybe add sound or something....
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 12, 2006 19:00:39 GMT -5
That would be sweet. Then we could even use it as a promo item XD I think we should seriously consider it - it would be a completely awesome result, even if it was a minute or less long. Then after we undertake one 1-minute piece, we could take a break and get up the energy to create another, etc. and introduce more new characters.
I say we give it a try - it would be a really cool community effort and really infuse the loyalty to this forum!
EDIT: Another idea I had to add onto this as far as sounds go, is that I know there are programs you can download that allow you to filter and change your voice. It would be totally sweet if we voice-acted our own characters and then filter them to meet their voice qualities. Then we'd have complete flexibility of words, too.
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Post by River on Jul 12, 2006 19:03:33 GMT -5
I totally agree. That would be pretty awesome to see what we all could come up with. We'd have to get everybody together first and then assign specific roles and determine exactly how we'd go about this...
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 12, 2006 19:13:56 GMT -5
Whenever you're ready, you (or me, but I think only admin/mods can post in that forum, right?) could post an announcement in the Announcement forums so it shows up on all the pages and have people "sign up" for roles. Like, we could list them all out and briefly describe the job and then fill in the names of the people in there. Something like this, I'm suspecting:
Writer (we all could throw in ideas in a discussion thread related to this possibly)
Script-writer, then all the parts will be sent to the character owners for them to voice act, and it is their responsibility to send the voice-changer-edited clips to the Sound Artist, who will add sounds to the compiled movie
Storyboarder, so the animators know exactly where everyone is going to be
Background artist (not me, because i totally SUCK at backgrounds XD)
Animators (i'd be happy to be one of these, or the storyboarder), and since it is a team effort, we can assign short scenes to each of the animators--it doesn't really matter if the styles are inconsistant. We still have consistant voices and character designs
Image/File Compiler will compile all the animation into a streamed movie format and then send to the sound artist who will add the sounds (or perhaps these two jobs can be merged)
Sound Artist, dealing with sound effects and putting together the voice clips
What do you think?
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Post by River on Jul 12, 2006 19:18:45 GMT -5
That sounds perfect but first, I'm going to PM everyone so everyone knows what's going on. Then, we can make the thread where we plan what's going on and stuff. We'll work on jobs and character roles and all that from there...
This is going to be so cool! ^^
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 12, 2006 19:21:24 GMT -5
This will be totally sweet if everyone plays their part! You're a great manager, too, and I really trust your judgement.
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Post by River on Jul 12, 2006 19:29:02 GMT -5
Aww, thank you. *snugglemuffs* <3
Everyone's been pmed... So, let's make that planning thread first. ^^
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 12, 2006 19:38:29 GMT -5
Fabulous! A couple more things before we start, though, that we need to establish beforehand:
Perhaps we should either put together a list or establish a standard as far as the Voice-Changing programs go. However, people probably know a lot about software they may already be familiar with and may already be able to manipulate it. We should also establish file-formats for everyone to save images or sound in (maybe .png format for images and .wav format for sound, or something).
I'm also thinkin that flat-color is gonna be the way to go as far as the character animations go.
Also, if we really do want the animation scenes to look consistent, we could assign specific characters to people to animate separately using the storyboards as guidelines for throughout the entire film, rather than assigning specific scenes. It might be slightly more strenuous than one scene, but we'll have to weigh our priorities and resources. We should also establish a frame rate and if we are going to do lip-sync, we should record ourselves before we actually do the animating.
(I'll post this in the discussion thread for the movie as well - you're going to make it, right? If you haven't already, lol)
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Post by Morsus on Jul 13, 2006 10:54:13 GMT -5
I might be able to do that for you! =3 Which version do you have? I'm quite skilled with Addballz. Paintballz, not really my thing. |
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 13, 2006 11:04:58 GMT -5
XD That's awesome! I have Petz 4 and 5, so you can hex in whatever is most comfortable to you. I'd want a .pet of Domnopalus, of course! But let me warn you I tried to do it already and got super impatient XD So if you want go ahead and give it a try, but if you don't want to anymore or get frustrated, feel free to just ditch it! Thanks so much <333 (You can probably hex him from one of Supernova's horse-breed files if ya like)
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Post by Morsus on Jul 13, 2006 11:06:37 GMT -5
Yes, I was thinking one of Nova's breedz. Yay, another person that knows about Petz. <333
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Post by River on Jul 13, 2006 11:07:31 GMT -5
omg you people have petz? You ROCK!!! ^^
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Post by Domnopalus on Jul 13, 2006 11:08:54 GMT -5
Me and petz go waaayyyyyyy back 8P
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Post by River on Jul 13, 2006 11:13:00 GMT -5
Mine too. ^^ I don't play with them much any more though... But I still like to torture that white cat in the snow scene in P4. XD
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Post by Morsus on Jul 13, 2006 11:16:20 GMT -5
Quick, someone make a thread about Petz! XD
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