Reply To: Tis the season to explode the atmosphere
@Angelastic – I like the ‘anything goes’ idea of a lot of people contributing in their own preferred styles. I think that in this case the characters (e.g., santa clause, reindeer, elves, …) are distinct enough that there shouldn’t be confusion even between style changes. I think the main tricky part is that if we’re doing elaborate stuff such as drawing, animating, doing sets and costumes, etc. we’d really need to sort out who is doing what ahead of time, and the people who commit to doing a scene would really need to get it done since there would be little\no redundancy. Actually this reminds me of an idea for a web-based tool that I’ve been kicking around, where anyone can contribute ‘alternate scenes’, and viewers can view ‘alternate scenes’ in parallel, and mix-and-match to create their own mixes. For this sort of project it could start with someone doing the whole thing as doodle animatics\storyboards, and then people could gradually replace each scene with better versions. This would help people coordinate who’s doing what, and it wouldn’t be so bad if people duplicated work, since the duplicates would still be highly visible. That’s digressing a bit since there’s no way it’d be done in time for this project, but maybe it’s worth developing to enable these types of projects in the future… I might actually see if I can quickly whip together a primitive version of this, but don’t wait on me :).