Re: how to get ideas?
MPfist0 wrote:
I meant that the last post was 3 month old...
Oh. My bad.
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I meant that the last post was 3 month old...
Oh. My bad.
If you want ideas, dont try to have ideas. The best ideas come at random. By trying to think of an idea for an epic animation, your not going to think of one. Sitting in front of a blank word document or with all your Lego in front of you wont work.
Don't ask me how, it just doesn't work...
-MRB
I get ideas from random things normally, i might read a book or even just look at the moon at night or something and i get an idea. Then I just build on the idea until I have a good story line. Then I sit down and write the script.
*sigh* i suppose that involves patience 
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I know a nice way, think about something random like a banana! Who eats a banana? a monkey! So a monkey steals a banana from a minifigure and so he gets angry and thats why he's going to chase and kill t3h m0nk3y...
... that's not a great idea AT ALL
Be like the sponge. Go to the museum, watch movies, read, learn poems, ... observe, observe, observe.
You need a huge input to have great ideas. They don't come out of the nowhere. You're not born as a genius. Nobody is.
But: all great artists had the ability to combine already existing things to create something completely new.
A good example is Picasso:
He just combined a bicycle seat with a handlebar and created a head of a bull.
Try to keep things simple, train your brain and you'll have a bunch of ideas without any problems.
You can always steal ideas. That's what the pros do. Just take a look at James Cameron! 
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." -Picasso
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