Topic: BFCU Interactive Adventure
Check out the original thread here.
I've decided to try to get this off the ground, but in order to make it a bit smaller-scale. Rather than, say, six adventure videos, we'll go for three. That means I need three brickfilmers, each willing to do one of the following:
A Space, Arctic, Racers or any other kind of sci-fi animation. Taken by BrickStory
A Castle, Viking, Greek/Egyptian/ancient history, or high fantasy (elves, dwarves, trolls etc) animation. Could also possibly be explorers or adventurers of some kind, or even mountain climbing or extreme stunts - it doesn't have to be fantasy, but needs the big nature or historical setting.
A Wild West, Dream-world, Beach/Hawaiian, Ninja or Spy animation, although to be honest there's the most freedom in terms of content with this one. If you have an idea that I haven't listed but you think is awesome and suitably different to the others, then ask me and I'll probably say yes. EDIT: We're going with Haunted Hospital for this one. Taken by Rockydude411Bricks
The idea is that each one is quite different to the others, so that a wide range of genres are shown. You can genre-bend (a robot knight in a Castle video? Aliens VS ninjas? Abraham Lincoln's time machine?) but it is important that each setting is vastly different.
For the purposes of this post, let's call the protagonist Arlen (that doesn't have to be his name, it's just a stand-in). Arlen is a regular minifigure working in the modern world, doing [something fairly mundane, let's say he's a painter (of walls, not art)]. He's bored of it. On the way home from work, or even when he's at home, two portals open nearby. Blot - the bad guy that everyone will be able to make - runs from one to the other, but Arlen gets sucked through as well. He ends up in a big chamber with lots of generic, blocky portals (literally just doors made of basic red-yellow-or-blue bricks) and is told by the Keeper (a really geenric figure, like 70s or 80s style) that he must help stop Blot from uniting three portal gems. There's no time to get anyone else, as Blot's already gone through another portal and the Keeper (being a keeper) can't leave the multi-portal chamber - Arlen must go through. Arlen sees the chance to leave the mundane behind and have a proper adventure, and so takes it.
So, obviously the story for the intro video is mapped out, but for the other three there's almost total freedom. The only criteria is:
Blot must be the main villain. He can have subordinates (e.g. for a Castle video, an evil wizard might provide the main challenge) but Blot will try to grab the gem near the end of the video. Somehow, Arlen will stop him, but the how is up to you. The video must end with Arlen having the gem, and I'll explain why in a second.
Arlen has no powers of his own, though like all minifigs he can build and rebuild things if there are enough bricks around.
Keep it PG-13, people.
Length should be between 2 and 6 minutes. No more, and certainly no less. Let me know if you think those parameters are wrong.
Arlen and any recurring characters (e.g. Blot) will have the same voice actors, as you might expect, but that comes later. First, would anyone like to volunteer to join? Like I said, there's a lot of freedom with this, and in terms of a deadline, I think the release date should be some time in the summer, like early july. That gives us all a lot of time to put together some high quality brickfilms.
So, anyone up for this? Let me know if you want any more information.
EDIT: Forgot to say, I'll take the intro video and the finale, when that comes around. If you'd like, I can post preliminary shots of the portal chamber and stuff sometime during the week.
Information on Blot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jampotstudios/9685361779/
BFCU Character Collection: http://www.bricksinmotion.com/forums/to
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BITS FROM ORIGINAL POST
This started as a film I was going to do (and may still do, it depends) called Man with a Banana, and some of you may remember me talking about it in other threads. It was essentially going to be a way for me to take an ordinary fig and have a montage of them crossing over into every theme I could think of in a big musical montage. What that nearly evolved into was a series, and then I had my latest idea.
It would be an interactive adventure: one central video leading off into several others via annotation links. It would follow one protagonist (a fig that everyone involved could build) who would be sent through each portal to fulfil a certain task, and to explore each world. One member would do a video to introduce the character, which would lead to the video that links off to all the others. These wouldn’t need to be seen in any particular order, but all would need to be seen in order to continue to the finale (not pictured on this diagram). Imagine a room full of doors, and each door that the viewer clicks on leads to a different video. The end of each of those videos has a link to the finale video.
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I think that if the BFCU were ever going to happen, it would need to be with something as focused and inclusive as this. Before, I said “let’s just all makes films and cross-reference”, whereas this is essentially a community project.
Each world featured would be set up by this interactive adventure for other brickfilmers to do future videos in. Let’s take Castle: it would set up the rules of the Castle world so that a brickfilmer who wants to do a Castle brickfilm in the BFCU has a point of reference. I hope that makes sense.
-JR
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