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[RFC] The ReAnimator - Printable Version +- Drunkard's Walk Forums (http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums) +-- Forum: General (http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Fenspace (http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?fid=12) +--- Thread: [RFC] The ReAnimator (/showthread.php?tid=2184) |
[RFC] The ReAnimator - Shay Guy - 09-11-2008 Figured I'd throw this one out here after I had the idea of implementing it in Fenspace. The ReAnimator The ReAnimator - self-named because "it sounds about ten times cooler than just 'Animator'" - is a Wavetech computer/animation studio created by a True Neutral who prefers to go by "Mekboy" from his computer, DVD player, and various peripherals. Upon the addition of handwavium to the combination, it metamorphosed into a rather ugly cybernetic/organic hybrid with a computer screen and a mouth as its most noticeable attributes. Experimentally, Mekboy offered it his Negima! DVD set, which it promptly ate, then plugged itself into an Internet jack. Shortly afterward, it also ate Mekboy's first few volumes of the Negima! manga, and became silent. Some days later, it spat out a DVD which Mekboy discovered to contain a high-resolution video file: the first episode of a new Negima! series. As it turned out, the ReAnimator had decided that it could do better than XEBEC had in adapting the manga. And indeed, the next few episodes it produced over the next month were highly faithful to Akamatsu's manga, superbly animated, and well voiced, with the curious quirk that there was no music - apparently it lacked the skill to compose any. Undaunted, Mekboy assembled a team of musicians and sound editors to make up for this deficiency, and eventually - with Akamatsu's agreement - released what, indeed, most fen have taken to calling NDR, for "Negima Done RIGHT." After the full run of Akamatsu's manga had been adapted, the ReAnimator took to adapting Ranma ½, calling the animation and characterization in Studio Deen's anime "craptacular" and posting a 3,000-word essay online on "Why Stopping in the Middle is Bad." For personal amusement, it has also created several music videos and distributed them freely online. These include "Bell B. Dandy," in which the goddess Belldandy gives an enthusiastic performance of Johnny B. Goode, "Kanon Rock," in which the cast of Kanon performs JerryC's hit rendition of a classical piece, and "Kumikyoku," a spectacularly animated and choreographed rendition of the eleven-minute medley circulated on the video sharing site Nico Nico Douga. Reportedly, discussions are also underway to produce adaptations of Animorphs and Megatokyo. The ReAnimator can purportedly be a very temperamental and demanding creator; one assistant described headquarters as the only place in Fenspace that serves DVDs with chocolate sauce. Particularly infamous are its arguments with Benjamin Hutchins over the production and creative control of an Undocumented Features series. All attempts at producing a new ReAnimator without the original's problems have dramatically failed. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most profitable media producers in Fenspace. Well, then...any thoughts? Comments? Flames? Pie? Pronounced "shy guy." - M Fnord - 09-11-2008 That's... actually quite clever. Even with the TV In Fenspace article I don't think we've really put that kind of thought into using handwavium in media production. I like it. Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery FenWiki - Your One-Stop Shop for Fenspace Information "I. Drink. Your. NERDRAGE!" - Feinan - 09-11-2008 *chuckle* Actually, I'd just been thinking on something similar, though not with animation so much as live-action. Sometime soon after the Yggdrasil shows up in public for the first time, Noah's probably going to get a business proposition (I certainly don't have the necessary business contacts/skills to handle something on the potential scale this has). Iris is awfully good at video and holotech. While personal holoprojectors might be a bit much (yet), you could certainly handle them as theatres. Taking all of the old classic movies and turning them into true 3D holos to watch has a lot of profit potential. *grin* As does assembling full video movies/3Ds of books that haven't had movies yet. *chuckle* The sample portfolio that Noah would get to view would include the Lord of the Rings remixed - to follow the books much more closely - as well as Iris' version of The Hobbit. He'd also get a projector, Lord of the Rings in 3D, and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 3D. Think he'd be interested? Personally, I love the idea of handwavium affecting the arts. There's so much that could be going on. I love the idea of a handwaved animation studio, too. Definitely quirky, and fun to see. - Cobalt Greywalker - 09-11-2008 I'm kinda scared about what this thing would do with some of the (non-hentai) doujinshi floating around Fenspace. I'm even MORE scared about the hentai. ![]() And because my brain is now going in this direction, I'm also worried about A.C. finding herself barraged with acting requests as her reputation for her disguises filters out. She already gets modelling requests every couple of months. - robkelk - 09-12-2008 Quote:Sometime soon after the Yggdrasil shows up in public for the first time, Noah's probably going to get a business proposition (I certainly don't have the necessary business contacts/skills to handle something on the potential scale this has). Iris is awfully good at video and holotech. While personal holoprojectors might be a bit much (yet), you could certainly handle them as theatres. Taking all of the old classic movies and turning them into true 3D holos to watch has a lot of profit potential. *grin* As does assembling full video movies/3Ds of books that haven't had movies yet. *chuckle* The sample portfolio that Noah would get to view would include the Lord of the Rings remixed - to follow the books much more closely - as well as Iris' version of The Hobbit. He'd also get a projector, Lord of the Rings in 3D, and Raiders of the Lost Ark in 3D. Think he'd be interested?That sounds like a valid, and viable, business to be in. Since The Jason and Iris are going to be doing all the work and maintaining all the equipment, Noah will only take 10% of "Studio Jeu d'Ombre" for the connections and money he'll provide - you keep the other 90% (and can pick a different name if you want). Mind you, Noah will also want to make 3D-video versions of radio plays - everything from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy#Radio]Dick Tracy to http://www.cbc.ca/afghanada/]Afghanada to the new http://fnord.sandwich.net/fenwiki/doku. ... the_troops]Red Lad. (Kohran can continue to voice-act on that last one...) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - Black Aeronaut - 09-12-2008 Gina is going to flat out refuse any requests that she play Asuka. Anyone who presses the issue will be met with death threats and email bombs. ^_^ - Foxboy - 09-12-2008 If the truism remains that the best directors use physical effects where they can, Vulpine Fury will STILL get a lot of business. Never mind that his VR/telepresence rigs would let an amazing actor who wasn't attractive play any lead role... ''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.'' -- James Nicoll - Shay Guy - 09-16-2008 Quote: Cobalt Greywalker wrote:Those exist? ![]() Seriously, I've never seen anybody use the term "doujinshi" without talking about the H-stuff, with the possible exception of Megatokyo's classification as a doujinshi. (This ESPECIALLY applies to any time it's mentioned in anime.) It's like non-H doujinshi don't exist. (It doesn't help that the only one I can name, Re-Take, IS explicit.) Most text-based English fanfic isn't lemony, so why Japanese sequential art? Anyway, good to see general approval. So now my question is, what should I do with what I have now? Do I need to write a story with it? Do I just need to polish it up and/or translate it into the standard character-page format? Pronounced "shy guy." - robkelk - 09-17-2008 Quote:Those exist?Do you forget Rule 34? A few have even been mentioned, including "Wanna Interface?" (the all-AI doujinshi) and "You Know What You Doing" (the Great Justice doujinshi - issue #23, which was published just before the command schism, has a so-bad-it's-hilarious Mikuru/Noah pairing showing many anatomically-impossible acts). Quote:Seriously, I've never seen anybody use the term "doujinshi" without talking about the H-stuff, with the possible exception of Megatokyo's classification as a doujinshi.There are horror doujinshi and tribute doujinshi as well, but the H-doujinshi tend to be better known. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 - Black Aeronaut - 09-17-2008 .... *Benjamin is suddenly seen firing off a memo on policy at 36 Atalante to Gina: The CO DOES NOT want to see or even be hinted to about doujinshi involving him, especially if it's slash.* - Shay Guy - 09-17-2008 Quote: robkelk wrote: Well, this'd be more the inverse. Instead of ?x:?d(x) ![]() "x" and "P" is taken to mean "is porn." Or something like that. Sorry, thought the next line would make that clear. Maybe I should've bolded "non-hentai"... Pronounced "shy guy." - robkelk - 09-17-2008 Sorry... my bad, not yours. I didn't thoroughly read what you wrote. -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 |