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Post by rbbanana on Feb 1, 2008 15:35:28 GMT -5
okay, so i'm still part of the Parakka group over at Yahoo (i recognize some of you! i think). and here's what i posted a few weeks ago (because i'm too lazy to re-word all of it). Hey people! HAPPY BELATED NEW YEAR!!!!!! I've been playing around with an idea for awhile...
You know how there was supposed to be a B*Sky movie, which became a TV series, which in turn became a graphic novel that never was? I was SOOO hyped when I heard about it..then brooded and complained to my friend for days when it got cancelled.
Anyway, since none of those planned-and-scrapped adaptations are gonna happen anyway, why don't we do it ouselves? Like, adapt the B*Sky series into a fan webcomic or something? It can be like a tag team adaptation, whoever is interested draws a certain amount of pages (there's plenty to go around haha). Don't worry if you're not the next Michaelangelo or something, I'm not either
What do you all think? I'm all for it, just hoping that some of you will show an interest. We'll ask Mr. Wooding for his blessing of course
- moi
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Post by Maliris on Feb 1, 2008 15:45:55 GMT -5
I had the idea stuck inside my skull for some time now. Good to see that other people think so, too. :]
Does a script already exist or do we take the book and, like, copy/paste it? Some parts would have to be rewritten for a comic. Not that it´s impossible, though. :]
I´d love to be part of this.
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Post by rbbanana on Feb 1, 2008 17:29:06 GMT -5
awesome! well i was thinking of doing it straight from the book, unless someone wants to step up and convert it to script format. ('cos i'm sooo original like that ) but no, there's nothing really planned out yet, just an idea we were tossing around in the group. Lisa Jane (who's also a member here i think) offered to host it when her site gets back up and someone else in the group said that they wouldn't mind contributing character sketches...which would be helpful for drawing the costumes in diff angles i guess.
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Post by lisajane on Feb 2, 2008 0:01:52 GMT -5
Yeah I'm here... I think some parts will need to be rewritten (ie parts where the characters go off on internal monologues for pages and nothing is actually said) but it shouldn't be that hard.
I tried to do one years ago.. I got though half a page before I grew bored, which is why I ain't drawing anything this time. I could do character sketches as well though...
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Post by shyviolet on Feb 4, 2008 6:11:32 GMT -5
Sounds like a great idea! I do think that to turn out well it would need MASSIVE amounts of planning though. Even with a detailed plot to work from a comic needs to have a script and rough pages and all the kinks worked out before anything's done in neat if it's going to be engaging and readable. This would be a project for people with huge amounts of spare time. P.S. I know I said I did have lots, but ironically the very next day we had shedloads of work dumped on us so now I have next to none. Sod's Law, no?
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Post by Maliris on Feb 4, 2008 7:26:36 GMT -5
I agree! D: Besides, does any one of you know what magma derricks look like?! XD And, and, and all that other steam-engine-stuff? Because I´m totally at a loss here. D: All that architecture would have to be planned and... maybe I´m too cautious about that but I tend to draw small sketches of a house. Blueprints if you want. (And it´s fun, too! ) Now I hope I didn´t scare anyone away... XD
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Post by shyviolet on Feb 4, 2008 14:49:34 GMT -5
Strangely I always imagined the architecture in the Dominions to be just like in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, even though I had never seen a picture or screenshot and had no idea the film existed. Weird coincidence...
I have some ideas of what the machinery would look like, the magma derricks came out in my head like those big hammer-type-things in oil digging places. The ones that really do look for all the world like a big metal mallet going up and down.
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Post by lisajane on Feb 4, 2008 16:24:56 GMT -5
I imagined magma derricks to be like giant black metallish towers, with stream bellowing from them and the hammer thing going on inside.
I was rereading part four the other day, Fane Aracq will be very interesting to draw... then again you could have a lot of fun with that, drawing bubbles of stone and shortened spikes everywhere. I will stick with drawing people...
Rather than try to work out the plot and sketch up the entire series to start with, maybe we could work out and draw the first couple chapters, or maybe the first book (meaning part one of nine), and see where it goes from there?
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Post by rbbanana on Feb 5, 2008 17:10:18 GMT -5
yup, you guys raise a good point. we have to, at the very least, come up with some design sheets for consistency...which reminds me, i have a ton of re-reading to do (finally ordered the new editions but still haven't found the time to do a lot of reading) ^oh and yeah, that's a good idea, lisajane. i don't want to scare away anyone who's even remotely interested in this
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Post by Pombar on Feb 6, 2008 13:16:41 GMT -5
I think anyone who read these books, what with their awesome covers and internal artwork, has had this very thought at one time or another. Sadly, the time and the talent is mostly invested elsewhere.
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Post by rbbanana on Feb 6, 2008 21:52:32 GMT -5
^you are absolutely right. that's why we'll hafta fix that ;D
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