zandoriastudios
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Yes, i think that might be fun!-- I think we must be around the same age, because we have similar influences
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I mean Open Source, as in sharing the copyright with TAR of Zandoria with a group of collaborators to create more episodes of the series. Without being able to pay people, making them partners in the copyrights gives them ownership in what they are making. Like the TWO project, all of the assets could be on SVN. I live in Chattanooga which is nicknamed "GIG City" because it's smartgrid provides gigabit/sec Internet access--I'm thinking that that could be useful for a distributed studio.
Of, course, the ideal situation would be to have a network option the show....
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Unless there is some patron who is looking to setup a grant for A:M projects--which (to me) seems unlikely, I don't know what the scholarship/foundation talk is about....
However, there are the tools built in to Animation:Master to create a distributed studio, such as was created for TWO project. I think about this alot with my own project--make it OPEN SOURCE or something and bring in anyone willing to collaborate. there are opportunities galore working in any project like that for apprentices and on-the-job training...And the collaborators can SHARE copyright of the finished work! Anyway...it is something that I think about....
As for Crowd-funding...without a crowd, I don't think you will get any...
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Part of my inspiration is the character "Zatoichi" played by Shintaro Katsu and also the character "Lone Wolf and Cub" played by his brother, Tomisaburō Wakayama. I love sitting down to watch a marathon of old black and white samurai movies
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I don't know what that would be like, but it would be nice to get a grant or patronage...Just getting more "shares" is my desire (so more people SEE my cartoon
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You can't make it as a freelancer billing what you think might be a good rate to make as an employee! Remember that you are paying your own taxes, insurance, electric, phone, Internet, etc...
There is a handbook from the Graphic Artist Guild for ethical pricing guidelines that has a pretty good matrix of fees based on the type of work: https://graphicartistsguild.org/handbook
I usually estimate my time for a project and multiply by a rate of $60-80/hr depending on the type of work...
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You might also consider invoicing at the completion of the project. A lot of businesses deal with vendors through accounts payable, and usually pay invoices in 30 days. I do work for my former employer as a freelancer and I do this--the first couple of months it felt uneasy, however now that there is a stack of invoices I can relax about it, and there is usually a check in the mailbox for 1 or 2 of them, and I can see what should be coming in over the next month or so...
I used to worry about the 1/2 deposit thing, but now I prefer to give an estimate/quote on the front end and bill later.
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Great feedback everybody! I don't mind critique, jut the CGTalk stuff was feeling like he wanted to teach me basic cinematography or something--which might be helpful, except like Mark said:I already see the flaws...
I think I could have just cut to the first sword stroke on the Sheild( maybe a half-second) and the pacing would have been improved there...
Nancy,
The leader says "The wizard said he was dangerous...wait until he gets to the shadow of the cliff, then fire"
The ninja says, " he doesn't look dangerous--see the vultures? They've got him marked for death..."
Later the same ninja says, "oh...They follow him"
That was the twist--the vultures follow TAR because he is a killing machine! He IS dangerous--and the eating is good which is why the vultures follow him. The first shot makes it seem like Tar is marked for death, with vultures circling overhead...
The line that "the wizard said..." Will be important later--they are hired assassins waiting in ambush for Tar. I wanted to communicate that without very many words.
Rodney,
the ninja will be back--with an eye patch, and a little more respect for a dangerous foe
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Thanks! I am really pleased with how it turned out. Everyone that I've shown it to seems to like it, and gets the story and everything. The only exception that I've had is on CGTalk, where the discussion is all a fairly uninformed critique (or that's how it seems to me). I think the stylistic choices "work"....
I have tried to not get bogged down over-massaging the animation (there are a couple of places in the fight where I could have kept tweaking it forever)....the jittery cloth simulation led me to a blustery wind, that made it work out. I knew that I had to make choices that are not the "Hollywood" way, but I think that there is a valid space for what I'm doing.
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I think he is going to stop at the waterhole for a big mug of fruit punch!
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Thanks! It feels like I just birthed a baby! But it feels great to have momentum and to see it finally on screen
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Finally finished! I've been working on this forever, so it feels great to finally have something to share
http://www.youtube.com/embed/vd_ekaOdDWg
I hope that you like it, and that you share it with your friends and followers so that TAR of Zandoria can find some fans!
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He just sent me a version to review, and it is indeed AWESOME!!!!
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I have an offer by Alan Williams to create the music! He is an award-winning Hollywood composer and conductor with more than 100 motion picture and television credits!
www.alanwilliams.com
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That sounds pretty good! Can you send me an email at zandoria@gmail.com with your contact details? I will email you the link (I don't want it getting out there yet, until I have the soundtrack finished)
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I need music for the first episode! I would like some simple tribal drums/percussion as the soundtrack.
I have finished the rendering (yay) and am editing and recording sound effects [did you know that a wok makes a pretty good sheild clang?]. I have a link to the current cut of the episode, so that you can compose
Anybody out there have some jungle drums?
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That's an impressive body of work!
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those are some amazing tools! i like the facial controls example from Malificent--i was thinking about the example posted on the forum recently of adding action objects in a POSE, and wondered if that might be a great way to bring in a setup like that, since you could use the same control model to drive named pose sliders.
You could probably setup one facial control model that you could use posing your characters face, or even set it up for ZignTrack too--it could become the new way to rig faces?
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I'm thankful for any avenue that allows independent creators to show their work, and get paid, without having to go through the traditional gatekeepers.... If I had to pitch TAR of Zandoria to get it onscreen, and please someone other than myself, then I don't know how I would ever get MY vision in front of viewers--that I hope to turn into FANS
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Simon's Cat...He has over 2 million subscribers [so that should make $2,000/month?...]
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Maybe William Detweiler can give permission to use the Knights horse from "Adventures with Boomer". It had cloth barding, but he had trouble getting it to work and abandoned it for the project.
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You could do a multi-part example: not just clothing, but layering clothing simulations, and using cloth for other things (soft-bodies?)
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TAR of Zandoria, Episode 1 Finished!
in Tar of Zandoria
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All the rigs are The Setup Machine, so they are pretty familiar to everyone using A:M. The facial controls are just pose sliders....
I have two paths forward from here..