Collaborative Story sign ups
Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:20 pm
I picked this idea up from a convention and have been meaning to try it out. Its a reformation of the comic Jam concept to produce a cohesive story (v.s. the jumbled mess resulting from multiple artists struggling to make their characters the center of attention) and do so in a very quick time, and in a way that can produce a minicomic for all participants in the end. Here's the basic method: The head of the jam picks a topic and establishes a few simple characters that everyone can draw. Then plot points based on how many participants are involved are set down. Each participant is assigned a point and describes the beginning and end of the page for the plot point, the middle being all up to the artist in question. Each participant goes about drawing their page at the same time, when everyone is finished we have a complete story! Let me give you an example
Concept: Boy is late to school.
Cast: Boy and Dog.
1. Boy wakes up.
1-2.Boy watches cartoons.
2-3.The bus leaves without the boy.
3-4.The boy runs to school.
4-5.The boy encounters a dog.
5. The boy gets detention for bringing a dog to school.
So the person assigned to page 2 would start with the boy watching cartoons and end with the bus leaving. In the meantime the Boy could need to use the bathroom, set some furniture on fire by overheating the tv, become entranced by it, daydream about being in the tv, thats all up to the artist, so long as it opens with watching TV and ends with the bus leaving.
So as you no doubt guessed I would like to try this out. I'll take the lead role as I'm introducing this idea. Sign up if you're interested, and by the weekend I'll post a general concept and cast sketches to see if everyone is capable of drawing them. We'll assemble our plot points and regroup in a week to see what we came up with. Ideally we'd be able to make a book out of this to ad to our portfolios so I'll post some specs to shoot for.
I must also stress that we should not add exotic characters in this for several reasons, first and foremost being the spirit of the activity. And by this I mean our avatars. This shall serve as exercise in writing and composing comics and inside jokes and name dropping are, well, they're crutches that don't do so well off of these forums. I don't mean to offend by that, but thats what I think.
Anyway sign up if you're a bad enough dude.
Concept: Boy is late to school.
Cast: Boy and Dog.
1. Boy wakes up.
1-2.Boy watches cartoons.
2-3.The bus leaves without the boy.
3-4.The boy runs to school.
4-5.The boy encounters a dog.
5. The boy gets detention for bringing a dog to school.
So the person assigned to page 2 would start with the boy watching cartoons and end with the bus leaving. In the meantime the Boy could need to use the bathroom, set some furniture on fire by overheating the tv, become entranced by it, daydream about being in the tv, thats all up to the artist, so long as it opens with watching TV and ends with the bus leaving.
So as you no doubt guessed I would like to try this out. I'll take the lead role as I'm introducing this idea. Sign up if you're interested, and by the weekend I'll post a general concept and cast sketches to see if everyone is capable of drawing them. We'll assemble our plot points and regroup in a week to see what we came up with. Ideally we'd be able to make a book out of this to ad to our portfolios so I'll post some specs to shoot for.
I must also stress that we should not add exotic characters in this for several reasons, first and foremost being the spirit of the activity. And by this I mean our avatars. This shall serve as exercise in writing and composing comics and inside jokes and name dropping are, well, they're crutches that don't do so well off of these forums. I don't mean to offend by that, but thats what I think.
Anyway sign up if you're a bad enough dude.
