thebackalleys flash tag official thread

[Sinitron]

Me and rumblemunky agreed that this collab may result into a bunch of people arguing and not having anything done.

You could've asked me and I would've told you right away.

I'm not going to work against it, though, if people actually manage to pull it off then good for them. I think there's way too many people in the line-up but whatever, nobody is going to listen to me anyway.

[f0d]

how long can we take making our parts before people start getting annoyed

no one should have the fla for over a week. 10 seconds of animation isnt that much at all.

also yes cdm you can draw other people's characters in your own style so long as you can still tell its someone else's character


and on the off chance this does degenerate into an unproductive bitchfest, ill assign parts to people who i know will get the work done

[rtil]

10 seconds could be a lot of work depending on how much one person wants to get into it. i mean let's say it's 10 seconds all on 2's, that's 120 frames of keying, inbetweening, coloring and some bg's for good measure. in the summer it would be easy to do but during school maybe not. either way this collab will take a long time to complete but it's been done before so it's not impossible. whoever is in charge of it however needs to constantly keep the whip cracking and not burnout halfway through.

[anigen]

you guys should make 10 seconds the maximum and let people do anything from 2 to 10

[adamant]

you guys should make 10 seconds the maximum and let people do anything from 2 to 10

this sounds like a good idea

[f0d]

10 seconds could be a lot of work depending on how much one person wants to get into it. i mean let's say it's 10 seconds all on 2's, that's 120 frames of keying, inbetweening, coloring and some bg's for good measure. in the summer it would be easy to do but during school maybe not. either way this collab will take a long time to complete but it's been done before so it's not impossible. whoever is in charge of it however needs to constantly keep the whip cracking and not burnout halfway through.

thats true a good 10 seconds is hard if you make it hard. i also dont crack the whip on people enough sometimes, thats why dt400 dragged on so long.
im thinkin one solution is that after each person completes their part, theyve got to send it to me AND the person they want to animate after them. that way we won't have an FLA with a bunch of work on it that gets passed on to someone who flakes out and grinds the collab to a halt, like what happened with aea2 and the spy sheriff collab. if i had the FLA and that happened, we could just move on to another different animator

you guys should make 10 seconds the maximum and let people do anything from 2 to 10

the thing is this sort of a collab idea allows for some parts that could be well over 10 seconds. i know my part was gonna be longer than 10. and 2 seconds isnt enough to show much of anything except one still frame of one character. unless people just want to insert freelance FBF work into the mind sequences of other people's parts

so how bout like... 5-15?

or we could let our parts be based solely on the breaks in the music

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

when i was a  young boi

i tried to listen........

PART OF A SYSTEM I AMMMMM

[sQueef]

I don't see why this collab won't work
anyone whos busy with school/work can work on their parts slowly
and the other parts can get finished as we go
then just put the right parts in the right places during compiling

right?????

just need to get to work on splitting up the music i guess would be step #1

cuz i like that idea of sending the .fla to the next person in line + f0d

[f0d]

we arent splitting up the music

step 1 is for me to finish my part then send it to someone else.

[GRINACE]

k.

[f0d]

i just listened to the song all the way through, and its giving me a lot of ideas for how this collab will play out. obviously it will take a long time and will be passed around to a ton of different people, but its definitely doable. i will totally make more than one part for it if we are running short.

to save work, we could have one set of people animating the real life characters, and another set of people doing the mind sequences. that way 5 second pieces or less would fit in perfectly, and no one would be out of their element. it would probly flow more nicely too without people cramming all of their animation into 10 secs

i also think we should agree on an ending right now so we have a better idea of how our characters fit into the broader storyline before we animate them. how should it end? i think something involving all of the characters shown one after the other, or maybe one character with a little part of it drawn by everyone like CDM suggested. or it could be something more concrete, like a disastrous event that catches all the characters attentions?

i dunno just throwin shit out there its late

[sQueef]

i just listened to the song all the way through, and its giving me a lot of ideas for how this collab will play out. obviously it will take a long time and will be passed around to a ton of different people, but its definitely doable. i will totally make more than one part for it if we are running short.

multiple people will probably want to more than one part

to save work, we could have one set of people animating the real life characters, and another set of people doing the mind sequences. that way 5 second pieces or less would fit in perfectly, and no one would be out of their element. it would probly flow more nicely too without people cramming all of their animation into 10 secs

thats what i was thinking would be a good idea, it would also look better and be less of a mess. It would be more clear as to what is real and what isn't etc.

i also think we should agree on an ending right now so we have a better idea of how our characters fit into the broader storyline before we animate them. how should it end? i think something involving all of the characters shown one after the other, or maybe one character with a little part of it drawn by everyone like CDM suggested. or it could be something more concrete, like a disastrous event that catches all the characters attentions?

yes we should agree on an ending and no offense to CDM because that might be nice for a collaborative drawing or something but???? I guess it could work but it just seems kind of odd.

but i see why it would make sense at least just seems... i dont know. fitting but out of place if that makes any sense.

[psi43]

k.

lmfao



oh and I am in, I just don't get the detailed person thing.

[CoolDrMoney]

Well since this flash has to do with a bunch of people we made, I figured it'd be cool if the last guy we show is some collabrative guy that we all took a peice of and drew. Itd be real easy since each of us would only have to draw one part. And either it can just show him or we go inside his head and the flash loops again or theres a replay button or somethin.

[sQueef]

i kinda figured that was your idea for that, well, it was the only obvious idea that made sense anyway.
luckily its not my collab and if f00d likes it then its in !

[f0d]

Well since this flash has to do with a bunch of people we made, I figured it'd be cool if the last guy we show is some collabrative guy that we all took a peice of and drew. Itd be real easy since each of us would only have to draw one part. And either it can just show him or we go inside his head and the flash loops again or theres a replay button or somethin.

ah interesting idea i like the replay button thing we could do something neat with that. we've also got plenty of time to refine an ending like that and make it have an impact. like right before it shows the guy, there should be some sort of buildup with all the previous characters turnin and lookin at him in the center of the town or somethin along those lines?

so if we want to do that, ill draw something like a single ear on the last frame. the next person will then add a tiny bit to that ear before they pass it to the next person and so on until we've got a face

btw if you guys dont feel like animating a camera zoom into a characters heads, you can do other stuff too. like their head can split open and their brain pop out, then the experimental stuff will be shown on the brain like a projector or somethin. or the top of their head can have a door or something that opens to show their inner thoughts. just some other thoughts of how to get from reality to their minds

[bcube]

for the whole idea of the character being seen in the middle of the city, I think that when your collab peice ends the character should turn to the guy in the middle and it should zoom past him and go on to the next character who then once reaching the endof his piece, views the guy etc etc
that way hes kinda being built up

[psi43]

by the way;
stickied the thread!

[f0d]

"WTF"
by: MetalShado
date: 47 minutes ago

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This needs some serious work. First off, cut out the gay jokes that only fags would make. Second off, most of the animation SUCKS. i dont see how the hell this made it on the front page. U need to completely change this.

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[psi43]

wrong topic but lmfao