Another idea: what if at the start, we're all taking turns using a blender, and then somebody steals the blender and runs off with it. We all chase the blender thief.
Hi, my name is Brad Pitty. I like to think i work in hollywood, but I am a looser writting this from an internet cafe. This is my face: https://deaenij3kiw8r.cloudfront.net/system/users/avatars/141380/original/production-b3612f96cc66fee631be82853dd2c316-man_bartlett_bw.jpg?1369799811
I need your help as an artist to work for no pay to single handeledly pull of a poorly written ambious script about a dog trying to befriend a hamster in a distopian city. You will get a credit as an assistent to effects production. I would also like it if you could mail me a dog and a hamster.
At this point I am going to point out that the fundamental idea we have here - us as characters - really requires dialog to happen. Maybe we should go another direction.
Cows don't need to say anything, Dragons don't need to say anything, only mythical creature roars. Mechs make mechanical hydraulic sounds, (and sci-fy blasts) Gandalf wouldn't need to say anything, (a distant, ancient wizard look would work) - he could not be bothered to say anything.
:D I'm sure there is a way we could do them, even with no dialouge. Its just the creativity aspect. You could have the cow and the radish hold up evidence and see what the suspect thinks
It depends on what kind of world we are talking about here. Is it one where magic is very specific, with this and that, ingredients and magic spells, or are we talking magic like, where you can will it, and if you know what you are doing, it works?
For this animation, I imagine it would be a combination, so there wouldn't be any speaking (magic spells) but they weren't all powerful
I had a whole huge conversation with this random person, acting like we were both different magical creatures in this world, and we were trading something. We were total strangers up to that point, so our views on magic and stuff were totally different, but we made it work, as we went along. It was awesome :D
You should ignore me. Also the answer is that either way, even if magic can be done via waving your hands around and saying magic words, or whatever, the really interesting stuff comes from trying to figure out exactly why and how it works, and then gaming it for all it is worth. You should not be content to merely use magic without trying to figure out more about it.
Gandalf found an ancient crystal of power. The power was too great for him, and it corrupted him. Once we destroy the crystal, he is restored to his sanity.
Basically, I am approving of the scientific, engineering, and philosophical perspectives on unexplored phenomena. The "eh, whatever" approach is not to my liking.
This could work :D And the idea is that we are trying to un-corrupt gandalf, because of the ring? (which is supposedly powerful enough to corrupt gandalf, when the One Ring, the last remaining bit of all the evil in the world, was not quite enough :D )
We could also do something with Norse mythology. There's: - Odin (main god--gandalf3 with an eyepatch), - Jörmungandr (giant wyrm--BookWyrm17), - Fenrir (large wolf--me), - Audhumbla (primeval supercow--GiantCowFilms), and - Thor (god of thunder, known for his lightning-shooting hammer--iKlsR).
There are other more obscure figures who could fit everybody else, probably.
If we're going by personality, X-27 could be Loki, the god of fire.
@GiantCowFilms Yeah, right now neither the LoTR idea nor the Norse mythology idea is a serious candidate, because we don't have a story that can easily fit in 2 minutes.
Right now, they're both more setting ideas than anything else.
BTW, guys, at this point, we might want to discard our earlier vote, and come up with a wider range of pitches. If we follow the above format, we should have a coherent set of options to choose from.
I think that I like the idea of each of us having a character that corresponds to us, but I think that we can be a bit less literal about that and just use our personalities as inspiration.
We could always do that Death idea, the journey and such, which wouldnt require dialoge, and only have two characters. Or maybe that spell checker. Or they grey world.
@GiantCowFilms Done right, it could be thought provoking. But I have a hard time seeing it as a good fit for 3D animation, and it doesn't really have a point.
BTW, We shouldn't get into the habit of editing what other people say on the google doc, for risk of changing original intent (while still having their name plastered onto it)
Just because I did it once, doesn't mean everyone else should be as dumb and irresponsible as I am.
