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Getting crew for Doctor Who animations
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There are 108 lost episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s - classic science fiction which now only exists as audio and surviving photographs.
In November 2007, after watching an official animation of two episodes of The Invasion, I started a project to animate scenes and possibly entire lost episodes.
I then spent over two years creating thousands of pieces of artwork, finishing at least one version of every major character and many supporting characters - finished with about thirty different facial expressions per character. A huge task, taking at least a week's work to do each one.
http://orangecow.org/who-sprites2/1guide/
There was a good reaction in the press - I was featured in The Guardian, SFX Magazine, Doctor Who Magazine, the WIRED Blog, the SFX Blog, and a lot of other blogs. The actors I'd drawn, the surviving companions, praised my art and several featured it on their own websites.
However, the official Doctor Who DVD people were rather dismissive of my work. I'd hoped for a better response there, as I was planning a huge and complex project and I really needed a full staff, and hopefully a full budget, to do lots of entire episodes.
I couldn't go it on my own. I did a huge amount of work over the years, but the plan from the start was that I'd have a team of fans to do a lot of the work once all the artwork was done - lip sync in Final Cut Pro, movement in Anime Studio. I was counting on the rabidness of Doctor Who fans to help, that there would be a community effort at some point, a groundswell of support, once all the art was available.
I completed at least 30 minutes of actual material, but I concentrated much more on the art than completing scenes with moving characters. Every actual scene I did I considered very rough, without great movement. I wanted others to help with a lot of that.
Most of the characters I've created for animation haven't actually had scenes animated of them.
And that's a waste, since I've now been caught up in other projects. At the time I should have been editing my feature film Shamelessly anyway. And writing screenplays and working on my webcomic. And looking for industry work.
Doctor Who fans on the internet, at least the ones I've interacted with, turned out to be useless for this sort of thing. I only ever got badly-written letters from young people with no knowledge of video editing or animation and nothing to contribute.
The few Doctor Who fans I knew who had any technical skill preferred to work on their own projects, regardless of whether they could draw or not.
Not to stereotype, but there seems to be more technical talent in Star Wars circles, those who grew up admiring those effects and watching programs to see how it was done. Those who grew up watching Doctor Who saw a program with very little technical quality, about a very singular personality who did things his own way .... So we end up with fans who don't have any technical skill, and want to do things their own way rather than be part of a team working toward a larger goal.
I haven't given up though. I don't think I'll ever give up. I'm sure at some point I'll take the art that's done and create a few more scenes.
But I don't want this project to gather dust. I want to attract skilled video editors and Flash type animators - good people with a devotion to Doctor Who who will work for nothing to bring some classic lost episodes back to life.
This is a damned good cause, and with a few exceptions these episodes are something which the official DVD range simply won't be tackling.
But animation needs a team, needs tons of work. I put in all the hard work for the art .... now, somehow, I need to find a team to help do the rest.
Thoughts?
There are 108 lost episodes of Doctor Who from the 1960s - classic science fiction which now only exists as audio and surviving photographs.
In November 2007, after watching an official animation of two episodes of The Invasion, I started a project to animate scenes and possibly entire lost episodes.
I then spent over two years creating thousands of pieces of artwork, finishing at least one version of every major character and many supporting characters - finished with about thirty different facial expressions per character. A huge task, taking at least a week's work to do each one.
http://orangecow.org/who-sprites2/1guide/
There was a good reaction in the press - I was featured in The Guardian, SFX Magazine, Doctor Who Magazine, the WIRED Blog, the SFX Blog, and a lot of other blogs. The actors I'd drawn, the surviving companions, praised my art and several featured it on their own websites.
However, the official Doctor Who DVD people were rather dismissive of my work. I'd hoped for a better response there, as I was planning a huge and complex project and I really needed a full staff, and hopefully a full budget, to do lots of entire episodes.
I couldn't go it on my own. I did a huge amount of work over the years, but the plan from the start was that I'd have a team of fans to do a lot of the work once all the artwork was done - lip sync in Final Cut Pro, movement in Anime Studio. I was counting on the rabidness of Doctor Who fans to help, that there would be a community effort at some point, a groundswell of support, once all the art was available.
I completed at least 30 minutes of actual material, but I concentrated much more on the art than completing scenes with moving characters. Every actual scene I did I considered very rough, without great movement. I wanted others to help with a lot of that.
Most of the characters I've created for animation haven't actually had scenes animated of them.
And that's a waste, since I've now been caught up in other projects. At the time I should have been editing my feature film Shamelessly anyway. And writing screenplays and working on my webcomic. And looking for industry work.
Doctor Who fans on the internet, at least the ones I've interacted with, turned out to be useless for this sort of thing. I only ever got badly-written letters from young people with no knowledge of video editing or animation and nothing to contribute.
The few Doctor Who fans I knew who had any technical skill preferred to work on their own projects, regardless of whether they could draw or not.
Not to stereotype, but there seems to be more technical talent in Star Wars circles, those who grew up admiring those effects and watching programs to see how it was done. Those who grew up watching Doctor Who saw a program with very little technical quality, about a very singular personality who did things his own way .... So we end up with fans who don't have any technical skill, and want to do things their own way rather than be part of a team working toward a larger goal.
I haven't given up though. I don't think I'll ever give up. I'm sure at some point I'll take the art that's done and create a few more scenes.
But I don't want this project to gather dust. I want to attract skilled video editors and Flash type animators - good people with a devotion to Doctor Who who will work for nothing to bring some classic lost episodes back to life.
This is a damned good cause, and with a few exceptions these episodes are something which the official DVD range simply won't be tackling.
But animation needs a team, needs tons of work. I put in all the hard work for the art .... now, somehow, I need to find a team to help do the rest.
Thoughts?
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