I normally break the order as well, especially if I do a film based on my Minifigure Challenge. Basically, every time I buy one of the collectible minifigures, I have to come up with a film idea for it (short or long, any idea at all). If I get duplicates, I have to incorporate them as well. So while I may start pre-production on most of my films with the story as the absolute first element I come up with, visual style/minifigs or pieces I want to use are sometimes are the first element instead. I think the order is very flexible; it really depends on what the purpose of your film is (whether you want to tell a specific story, hone some particular skills, experiment with a new visual style, or a mixture of those things).

Of course on a project like this, following an ordered workflow as Nathan's suggested is probably the best way to go, though it never hurts to consider what people might actually be able to do in the early stages. Also, community projects like this are just as much about the people taking part as it is about the final product, since half the fun of something like this is working in tandem with others, so I'm not sure about everyone's back and forth horse-and-cart analogies (they seem to start to break down whichever way you look at them in my opinion).

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Hhmm. Didn't think of that. Sounds good.

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This could work.

I actually really like this community project idea. It reminds me of Cinémagique - where a character from the audience gets sucked into the film and travels across the history of cinema. A Brickfilm version of this could be easily done, and different animators could animate different sections. It would be like how The LEGO Movie travels across different genre's, and it would be totally flexible for each animator since all they would need to do is make sure that they start their section in the place specified and end their section in the place specified.

Done. Hope I've been of some help.

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Yessum. Myself included.

I would totally like to participate in this! I think your doing great right now rio, keep it up!

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