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It would have been neat to make my helium one, but it would need at least 6 different voices. (Gandalf, Iklsr, David, GwennTheDragon, BookWyrmTheDragon, and Myself)
Pancake pitch updated
no dialog, fairly easy to execute, has a plot. I rather like it, if I may say so.
@X-27 IKR?
@GiantCowFilms Formatting is a great idea. Whoever is resisting probably has very little experience in writing good documents or good code. They will wizen up
00:29
what exactly is wrong with the racing pitch?
@X-27 Its awfully boring, and is going to consist out of a vroom noises.
and smashing and crashing
@X-27 Well - it was second highest voted - so I might loose this battle . . .
I probably wouldn't have pitched it if we had the choices we had now. I added that one out of desperation for something that didn't need dialog - before I decided to take the ideas I reserved for my own use (pancakes and spell checker - and through them into the mix).
@GiantCowFilms and explosions and smoke sims, and awesome simulations abusing the physics!
The problem is I really want to do this to learn character animation.
@X-27 The pancake pitch as equally good physics opportunities
a battle in the middle of a burning kitchen, smashing pots and pans. That will be quite cool and funny, and have all the sims you could wish for.
Yeah, I really need to learn how to do characters too
Modelling, rigging, animating, the whole process
That is my pancake sim plug
it has two very interesting characters, a human and a pancake
which avoids the issue of having to do a lot of stuff (therefore lower quality)
and has learning opportunities for human animation, as well as animating things that don't normal move like humans like humans
'cause the pancake is going to walk and jump and bounce.
which will be super fun to animated
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ That too
because the man character will be trying to smash it with a fire extinguisher.
so the pancake can roll out of the way
that is an awesome idea!
00:56
I am modelling a futuristic race vehicle right now . . . learning a lot of hard-surface modelling techniques
@GiantCowFilms Yep ;)
01:26
Look at this screenwriting app, it has everything we need for free!
and it has better collab features then adobe story
adobe story might be fine, but if we get annoyed, we can switch.
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ detail level like gandalf's scene?
@X-27 Which one?
@GiantCowFilms Cool!
Anyways, working without a concept art is HARD, that I do know. Something as complicated as a mech needs some basic outlines at minimum
I can make components easily, but fitting it all together is tough
Especially the cockpit
02:19
Heyo! I can't get on the computer for the rest of the night. We don't LOOK like we are voting now... are we?
I like the pancake one a lot more now that it has a plot :D So you gotta kill the pancake before you can eat it?
@BookWyrm17 Something like that
I was thinking down the lines of it running out of energy
My pancake idea continues to grow on me
I feel like it will be incredibly unique, has a plot, solid conflict and a solid resolution
Especially that unique part...
lol, yes. I like it too
02:56
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Um... I made my mech with no reference material. Are you trying to make a car that transforms into a mech!??? That is totally cheating!
but.. .AWESOME
No, it is a flying racing spaceship style thingy
Jets and the whole works
cool
Highly detailed too :/
so it is a race car, but it also hsa fold out jets for short bursts of flight?
screen shot?
Please?
I just had a brainstorm for an AWESOME vehicle, need to sketch before I lose it.
I have no base mesh finished yet, and no concept art
03:05
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ I really wanna see this thing now
Still figuring it out
It will be cool though
I'll be sure to share it when done
BTW, Does anyone object to us taking the lowest voted pitches out of the running? I was thinking of leaving only four or so of the old ones
(which regrettably means scraping both of my favorites from the first batch D:)
Here are the final results
It says 10 responses beacause of an error that produced two extra responses:
(The bars are correct though)
Which?
I haven't voted since the first time, so I only had half to shoose from
03:09
Its probably hard to see what the labels say
bbl, g2g now
I just wrote a pitch that I really like, and is pretty different from the others.
Is anyone around to give feedback?
That looks like an awesome idea!
03:17
:D
03:35
@Gwenn see my response
03:59
One thing I will say is that the pitches are starting to look better
04:51
@GiantCowFilms I wrote up some good examples.
 
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12:41
@Gwenn I love it!
13:16
So really what next in the Hulium cow?
 
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16:01
hehe
16:37
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Anything hapening on this today?
Check this out, its a model of excitability and is quite memorable.
(You've also probably seen it already)
Maybe too much for starters, but something like this could be fun:
YES Something needs to happen EVERY day.
Are we going to vote again, or send more pitches, is the question
16:53
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ That was hillarious
Nother one
Yeah I've seen that one :D
How does setting a deadline for the end of today for pitches sound
We DO need to move on
I'm not 100% satisfied with what we have
As long as we can get something good out of it....
16:56
all of them are either too difficult or not worth making...
@BookWyrm17 Well why don't we leave it open for the rest of today
I feel like the pitches are getting better with time
(I'm definitely picking one of yesterdays pitches over tuesday's)
I do like the most recent ones.
So, a deadline. For all of us. If we want to write more, do it quick!
The final poll to choose the pitches will be conducted at 7PM UTC - So please pitch any ideas you have before then!
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@Gwenn I like your Angle pitch, but I think it should be a little more definite - what is the angle trying to prevent. what are some good examples of possible humors scenarios?
that would be funny if an angle started trying to save someone
Hey hey HEY I got a new pitch :D
17:06
lol, write it up!
17:20
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ angel
Like 90 degrees angle?
doh
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ no
I just can't write
So..... Are we essentially dumping all the good ideas? (rueless racing)
17:24
We might keep one or two of the old pitch list, but I'm probably not going to keep that one if I can help it
@X-27 nah - that one will probably survive to the second vote...
it was #2 on popularity
So how can I fix up that Math Class Pitch?
lemme read it real quick
@GiantCowFilms now That is awesome.
@GiantCowFilms so is that
but the pig one is awesome.
That one was brilliant
yah
17:37
and would be way easier to make than some racing one
perhaps....
that is why I still want more pitches, and I don't like the racing one.
because the racing one would require a Lot of terrain..
that one didn't really have any....
but terrain is fun to make, and vehicles easy to animate when rigged properly.
SFX for the crashes will be hard
the render times will be unbelievable
possibly...
but if we did a reasonable level of detail...
17:40
I can tell you off the bat that a fridge, some cookies and pig are way easier to make then several characters, a bunch of cars, an entire race track, and a whole bunch of car crashes.
Nooo kidding
Basically, what I'm looking for is stuff set in ONE location
I guess....
With one or two characters max
that is mostly focused on the animation of said characters
(surfer pitch, cough cough)
17:42
:D There aren't ANY other surfers on the beach? And what about those reporters?
so.. how about... say... a cow trying to get to a jar of cookies across a road guarded by an electric fence over ice that penguins cross?
um what
A cow trying to get apples out of a tree
that could be funny...
That makes more sense
17:43
but it couldn't be a giant cow...
I had a concept, can't remember if I wrote it out
@X-27 Nope
COuld be any critter that likes apples, even a bear
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ you didn't
@BookWyrm17 Meh... in the way I imagine it, it makes sense, but fine, you can say five characters
but they don't have to be animated very much, which helps
:D What an empty beach for trying to get big waves.
Would a quiet math class with studying students take much animation?
I do like the robber version better.. I think there are more opportunities to get something funny out of it, rather than big waves...
17:47
how about we do a dragon trying to eat a cow. The dragon is not very massive, or strong, but is very clever, and tries to catch the cow using lots of different traps and plots. The cow effortlessly foils all of them.
The robber version requires a lot of locations
@BookWyrm17 We might have some surfers in the background, made to a very low quality
But remember the fishing short film? there were NO other characters in the background, and nobody ever noticed.
They ARE in the most desolate place on earth...
(Well I haven't actually seen it yet, youtube is being weird. I might have to resart my computer. Im just assuming cause it IS a polar bear)
The point is people don't actually notice that, and if its an issue, its not hard to fix
we won't be close up like in a classroom.
:D I suppose.
:P
The Cow is right, never forget that.
17:53
is that right, write, or wright?
Even if he is wrong, he will use his tactics to make you admit he is right.
is that tactic making so little sense that the reader assumes he has lost his mind and can not trust his own judgement?
I just wrote one, let me know what you guys think
just stops trying to argue and gives up?
Prehaps. I still think that the reasoning "people won't notice" is NOT a good reason for the beach not be swarming with people though.
18:09
@X-27 that one.
@BookWyrm17 Big wave surfing beaches aren't necessarily crowded.
Besides, in the context of this animation it will make sense
You know, i really like the robber idea. I'm just imagining the final scene, where one of them breaks into the most secure museum ever, and is about to take a gigantic jewel, when he stops and takes a selfie of himself next to the jewel, then sends it to the other guy to gloat... And almost immediatly, the little "typing" sign pops up, and he waits eagerly to see the other robbers responce....
precisely in the same way the pig animation made sense, just being set on a white background
@BookWyrm17 My problem is labor overhead
to see that while his back was turned, the other guy snuck up and took his own selfie, and stole the jewel
Huuuuhhh fiiiiine you got me
nearly all of our pitches suffer from requiring to much work
18:12
@BookWyrm17 LOL
@GiantCowFilms BTW, mine is intended to be low-poly or cartoonish
Yours is viable
the surfer one is also viable, due to the style I have in mind
the pancake one is close, although the smoke sims required may cause issues.
We should take them to the next stage and develop them and see what is actually required
(List of assets, techniques, etc.)
Well the idea was to vote out the pad pitches
maybe we could have another stage before script
1. vote out pitches that have no story or just are really not worth bothering with
2. figure out which pitches are executible
3. choose the best from among those.
18:16
One with the best balance of story/plot with technical difficulty
I definitively like the idea of using animals or robots. The don't talk.
Aliens would work too
Or people who aren't in a situation where talking is needed.
Basically no talking
(shhh!)
SPIES
Prisoners escaping
Hunters
People like me
etc
a sniper team waiting to blow up an approaching convoy? waiting in total silence?
Ba-Blewey!
18:18
Explosions . . .
That could be sooooo eery
@GiantCowFilms Explosions are fun!
Just waiting, no talking because everyone knows exactly what to do
And more waiting
That could have an interesting mood
And then . . . the rifle jams
18:19
the thing is our smoke sim sucks at explosions because it doesn't support expanding gass
and then, a frantic rush to fix the rifle in silence while the convoy comes around the bend into view
(it really only works that well for fire, or at most a large burst of it)
robbers would not want to talk :D
I remind you all that one of my goals was to get some quality character animation in.
@BookWyrm17 Your idea is hilarious, but it should be done in real life
Text me when you get it
number?
opens notepad
lol, he should know if he is such a good robber
(999) - 999-9999
Easy to remember
18:22
don't try to deceive me. I've dialed that one before. It wasn't a JWS
Hey everyone! Feel free to call me at this number: (***) - ***-****
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ ?
I take it there is something significant there that I missed.
I have copied that mysterious name and will examine later
how about we animate something simple. like a person who gets pestered day and niht by a telephone and goes to elaborate lengths to silence it. He trys throwing it in a pond, but it floats to the surface ringing.
he drops a rock on it, but it is not damaged at all
he shoots it with a RPG, but the wall behind blows up, the phone goes flying, but rings as it hits the ground
18:28
And in the end he silences it by answering?
he tries encapsulating it concreet
but during the night, a muffled ringing sound
finally he throws it in a river, and thinks he has solved it. He gets a package the next day, but the phone rings from inside the package
a note in the package says, "I found this yesterday at the beach, and it had your name on it."
LOL
That would be real funny
He then puts on ear plugs, ear muffs, and insulating foam around his head
muffled ringing sound
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHH
The final scene is him in a helecoptor, over a volcano, about to throw it in, and when he picks it up,
battery low, auto shutoff
ends.
after credits,
muffled ringing sound
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
wouldn't that be great???
brb
BTW, that won't be super simple
everything is easy except for the volcano...
That would be pretty awesome :D
or, even better- after he throws it in the river, he goes to sleep, and then wakes up during the night with look of terror on his face, after hearing a ringing sound. He follows the ring to his front door, and sees a box, with the note.
Whoa! Who wants to be my 50th follower on ArtStation? It already got to 49!
I pitch..
18:53
Read my pitch.
Uh
wow
You might want to make it conform to the proper format
awesome, hu?
the script?
or the heading?
If my phone started ringing and wouldn't stop, it would go something like this:
Answer phone, "hello?"
Try the end call button
Try the button on the receiver
Remove the battery from the phone
Unplug the receiver from the power supply
Unplug the receiver from the phone line
Start to get suspicious
Dismantle phone and isolate ringing part
Take a video of it ringing without any apparent power supply
Get better microphones/cameras and repeat
Show to a few other people to confirm it isn't just latent schizophrenia or something
um...?
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