OPINIONS REQUESTED: What kinds of PCs and NPCs for my CARTOON?

AlgorandAlgorand Registered User new member
edited September 2009 in Social Entropy++
I made a cartoon short for the Fox/Aniboom Holiday Animation challenge. The plot involves characters from a fantasy world and it borrows heavily from role-playing games and 80's cartoons. I'm adding new characters in my next episode, so I'm asking you guys...

QUESTION: What sort of Fantasy character types would you like to see in a cartoon? Race, Class, Gender, Personality Type?

I consider you guys to be my target audience, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. I promise to read everyone's responses! To get an idea of the type of humor I'm using in my cartoons, click the link in my signature (below) and check out my first episode.
Thanks guys!

This is a cartoon about DND-type characters that I made: http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/393187/Turkey-Day/
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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    This was a good decision you made, coming here and asking us for help.

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Oh man one of the characters should be a Centaur

    only instead of being half man, half horse

    the top half should be a dick

    and the bottom half should also be a dick

    just a big walking dick who's good with a bow

    #pipe on
  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Here's my opinion: You suck and you should leave.

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  • HobnailHobnail Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I dunno, his cartoon dealie there that he linked is better than 95% of everything else on the internet. Could be worse.

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Look I stick by my comment I made before I looked at anything, I will defend that opinion to the death.

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    #pipe wrote: »
    Oh man one of the characters should be a Centaur

    only instead of being half man, half horse

    the top half should be a dick

    and the bottom half should also be a dick

    just a big walking dick who's good with a bow

    and he shoots dicks instead of arrows

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  • Burden of ProofBurden of Proof You three boys picked a beautiful hill to die on. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Just use the common archetypes.

    You know, you have your dwarf warrior who drinks a lot, your valiant human knight, your barbarian and your arrogant Elven mage. Just keep going like that, and you'll have all the clichés you could ever want.

    Look at me, I'm contributing!

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    And those dicks shoot more dicks. But those other dicks just shoot semen, any more would be ridiculous.

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    A shemale black jewish communist fucking hitler

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    you know what would go great in this

    some jokes

    #pipe on
  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    A ROMANTIC COMEDY INVOLVING KING ARTHAS, JAYNA PROUDMOORE and THRALL, called
    "Green/White on White"

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  • DavoidDavoid Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    you are smart guy!

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    This is actually not terrible.

    Also i want to see a somewhat effeminate ogre that rides a tyrannosaurus rex. He waylays adventurers and asks them to play wedding/doctor.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I really don't see how the terms PC and NPC can be applied to a cartoon

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Cat girl slave.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2009
    You should do something really awesome like a dark elf with crazy white hair that is a rebel against his oppressive female overlords that is totally a symbol for rebelling against society and oppressive moms and stuff, and he should have like, one of those pirate swords, wait no two of those pirate swords and he should also do stuff like go around and kill things and he knows nature really well but also dungeons really well because he grew up in the underdarks and he should be named something awesome like Drazit Leggilus

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    You should do something really awesome like a dark elf with crazy white hair that is a rebel against his oppressive female overlords that is totally a symbol for rebelling against society and oppressive moms and stuff, and he should have like, one of those pirate swords, wait no two of those pirate swords and he should also do stuff like go around and kill things and he knows nature really well but also dungeons really well because he grew up in the underdarks and he should be named something awesome like Drazit Leggilus

    Add in some 15 year old highschool chick with big tits and a shoe size IQ and we'll make a fortune.

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    it is never a good idea to make your first post on a forum a new thread

    never ever

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Rank you rule

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    better production than i was expecting
    could be going places

    but all i know about final fantasy characters is that the main guy is emo and never talks or says anything and that im actually confusing that part with zelda
    and half life

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    So there's an episode of the west wing.

    Where they're trying to come up with a speech for something, and they keep on talking about how the problem with the earlier speech was that "They forgot to bring the funny"

    Anyways I don't know why that just popped into my head here

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Air wrote: »
    better production than i was expecting
    could be going places

    but all i know about final fantasy characters is that the main guy is emo and never talks or says anything and that im actually confusing that part with zelda
    and half life

    and chrono trigger

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    yea i havent played that

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    your cartoon should be Heavy Metal

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  • risumonrisumon Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Langly wrote: »
    Air wrote: »
    better production than i was expecting
    could be going places

    but all i know about final fantasy characters is that the main guy is emo and never talks or says anything and that im actually confusing that part with zelda
    and half life

    and chrono trigger

    I thought FF7 was the only one that did that with Cloud. Were there others?

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    risumon wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    Air wrote: »
    better production than i was expecting
    could be going places

    but all i know about final fantasy characters is that the main guy is emo and never talks or says anything and that im actually confusing that part with zelda
    and half life

    and chrono trigger

    I thought FF7 was the only one that did that with Cloud. Were there others?

    Squall was like Cloud: The Sequel

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Khavall wrote: »
    So there's an episode of the west wing.

    Where they're trying to come up with a speech for something, and they keep on talking about how the problem with the earlier speech was that "They forgot to bring the funny"

    Anyways I don't know why that just popped into my head here

    yeah, Aaron Sorkin just plain ran out of good ideas somewhere along the line

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    man, your turkey day cartoon is fantastic. i love that, `you want to EAT a turkey` `i dont even know what else there is to do with one!`

    character for a cartoon, hmm.

    well, you can`t go wrong with a flamboyant talking unicorn. i don`t know why.

    how about a highly unattractive dwarven female who has entered every beauty competition and always loses, but thinks the judges must`ve been bribed -- maybe she`s hugely arrogant and living in a dream world.

    or how about a small taru-taru type (final fantasy eleven) who is always picking on giants and taurens etc for fights

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  • Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    you should have a wizard who does everything

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Put a black guy in it

    nobody will expect it

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    A male human who speaks with an effeminate Southern accent

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Maybe like a PC with a sweet case mod and definitely at least a dual core, if you can't get a quad core.

    'course if it's a cartoon, I don't see why you can't just have whatever PC you want in it.

    Maybe like four screens or something.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    mully wrote: »
    man, your turkey day cartoon is fantastic.

    The animation was actually pretty good.

    The humor... there was humor? Sorry, but I didn't even smile a little at it.

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