Where's the Baron?

[SoniCroc]

As some of you may know, I'm planning on making an animated episode of Croc. And although I have a bad habit of switching interests constantly (usually videogame related), I have all of the software that I need to make it, and I think it will get done eventually.

I have most of the story planned out. It stars the castle trio, Platform Pete, Balistic Meg, and Swipe Swiftly. The story takes place in between Croc 1 and 2.

Because I'm also a Sonic fan, I know what it's like to have many, many different storylines, so I'm going to try to stick as closely to Nike's fanfiction as possible. (which I haven't read too much of yet)

So please tell me your opinions and ideas!

Sonicroc

[Nike]

I`l can try to give you some advices about the story...

First of all, if you want, you can think up the main idea of the story. And then, you can create the story, that explain and prove this main idea. But, as you know, sometimes is not so neccesery. For example, in case, if you want to create the comedy, for make people laugh, but not for prove some ideas and not for teach them, how to live correctly... Also is not necessery, if you just want to entertain the people and nothing more.

For make the story more interesthing, and for show characters more expressively, you can add some conflicts between them. As I know, a lot of people follow this rule, and not only writers and cartoonists, you can see conflicts even in games! For example, in Croc games is a conflict between Baron Dante and Croc. But, this is a cartoon, so, better to make much more conflicts...

I, personaly, think, that better don`t use here some kind of jokes... I mean jokes, like in Croc 2, in the Inca Village, near the Gobbo with plate of soup... I think, is not compeletely fits in Croc`s atmosphere...

And, are you sure, that my story is not too much long for animated episode?...

[SoniCroc]

Thankyou, Nike!

And are you sure that my story is not too long for an animated episode?...

I'm not going to actually make your story, as of now. What I meant was that I don't want my story to contradict yours.

EDIT: Here's an example animation: (hehe)

[Nike]

You're very welcome!

I think, this animation is good enough, but I'l give you one advice, just in case. You, most likely, know it...

When the character do something very speedy, sometimes, you don't have to draw every frame, but you can draw one frame, that looks as much expresive, as two or three...
Here, just for example, I make my own animation of Pete with that "expressive-looking" frames:



In this animation you can see some frames, that looks quite bad. For example, like that ones:



So, sometimes you can draw less frames, but reach good result! But I think, you can left Pete's animation, and change nothing, because it looks fine, and because, as you know, you don`t have to use kind of animation, that I show you, too much...

Sorry, if you already know that...

[SoniCroc]

Whoa! Your's looks... so much... better than mine! Where did you learn to do that?

Thankyou very much for that tip! I'll have to try that myself!

Sonicroc

[shadowpanda]

Since the human eye can only see a few frames per second, animations tend to fake movement by showing a few frames worth of movement in a single frame.

If you've ever done any spriting work, you would have noticed this a lot.

[Forte Wily]

And that's why graphics cards that display games at a gajillion frames per second are redundant.

[SoniCroc]

Here are a few inquiries I have:

1. I've always thought that the singular word was dantinis (dahn -tin - ess) plural was dantini (dahn - tin - aye), but I've been seeing it written as if the singular word is dantini (dahn - tee - nee) and the plural is dantinis (dahn - tee - nees). So does anyone know for sure which one is correct?

2. In the animation, do you want the main island to be called "Forest Island", "Green Island", or "Pau Pau Island"?

[Forte Wily]

1: Dantini is the singular form, and Dantinis is the plural form. If memory serves, this is consistent across the manuals for all of the games.

2: That's entirely up to you. What's your preference?

[SoniCroc]

Hmm... I think Pau Pau Island sounds kind of like something a gobbo would call it, but it's probably just "Forest Island" in Japenese, so I think I'll go with Green Island. After all, the four islands all have one color covering most of it.

[RosyVelociraptor]

Hey, your idea for an animated episode of Croc sounds awesome. ;D I've wondered what kind of storyline would be used for a Croc cartoon, and how the characters would be portrayed. I'm looking forward to seeing it!

As for me, I think Pau Pau Island sounds the best, because as you said, it sounds a lot like something a Gobbo would call it. It's up to you, though.

[SoniCroc]

Maybe, but I don't know the rest of the Japanese island names.

Anyway, I'm currently writing a book... so I suppose this will be put aside for awhile. Don't worry, I'm not giving up, but I'm considering different storylines than the Platform Pete one.

[RosyVelociraptor]

You mean you're writing a book for the storyline of the animated Croc, or something else entirely?

[SoniCroc]

Er, something else. If I told you what I was writing, you would know who I was when/if the book came out.

I think I've finally decided what story to go with! ;D But... it won't be anything fantastic, if it gets made at all.

[RosyVelociraptor]

Oh, I see. Although I wasn't asking you to tell the name of the book if you didn't want to.

Good to hear that you've decided what story to go with for the cartoon. I'll look forward to seeing more about this project.