Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:03:15 UTC No. 878697

>>878696
the best ideas come to you randomly, not through brainstorming

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:09:41 UTC No. 878699

>>878697
I've been wanting to make a short film for two years, and before that I wanted to write a book

Never had any ideas come to me randomly

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:15:51 UTC No. 878700

Litteraly take a shower or a shit, you will get ideas.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:38:48 UTC No. 878711

>>878699
making a movie or writing a book just for the sake of doing it is a fool's errand, unless it's just as a learning or training experience.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:51:43 UTC No. 878716

>>878696
The process of creation is learning what you do not want to make

From their you will know what you want to make.

Its a process of elimination, watch other movies, look at other art etc.

Don't think i want x story say i want X moment, i want X emotion, i want X action

You take all those ideas and see what would work together and throw out what you don't think would work.

Any idea even no matter how childish or stupid it is could work under the context of other supporting ideas.

You already have a good idea of what you want to make you just cannot assign value to those ideas.

I am sure you know the basics of animation so treat the process as such. The key pose process is just basic story telling on a very minor scale, think about the key poses(moments) you want in your story and make the in between moments match those moments.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:23:10 UTC No. 878724

>>878696
Just go with something. It doesnt have to be a perfect masterpiece.The main concern, especially if your working mostly solo, is whether or not the project is in your power.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:26:17 UTC No. 878725

>>878716
>The process of creation is learning what you do not want to make
This is so true.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:28:04 UTC No. 878726

>>878696
if you don't have an innate insatiable desire to create you're ngmi

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:56:29 UTC No. 878760

>>878696
>How the hell do I come up with ideas for a short movie?
>I just have barebone concepts like "a man is tortured by his sins as he searches for forgiveness" which is just a blatant rip of silent hill

You can do it just like that but adding some novell spin to it til you find a concept that speaks to you.
Most good new ideas are just repackaged or combined old ideas.

"a man is tortured by his sins, as he searches for forgiveness he discovers his neighbor is a furry serial killer"
"a man tortured by a furry serial killer discovers the power of forgiveness"
"a man comfortable in his sins who laughs out load at all the things he did set out to seek remorse"

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:58:12 UTC No. 878761

>>878760
>laughing out load is when you laugh so hard that you cum, not at all a typo.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:15:41 UTC No. 878853

>>878716
>The process of creation is learning what you do not want to make
This is so true.
Especially at the start before you get experience and surpass the white page syndrome.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:36:20 UTC No. 878861

>>878696
>>but who was writing
nothing is more powerful than writing, any type of writing, doesn't matter what you write about but the writing is non negotiable

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:03:21 UTC No. 878865

>>878696
You can either expose the Jews.
Or make woke Star-Wars-Trannix-niggerlover copy-pasta.
Idea is an hoax it's all about politics

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:32:42 UTC No. 878888

You have to have a character want something and try to get it. Also read Robert McKees' 'Story'.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:48:38 UTC No. 878913

>>878865

based

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 02:53:59 UTC No. 879286

I'm making some mockups with half-life characters but it's hard to come up with ideas

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Feb 2022 08:28:10 UTC No. 879318

>>878696
stealing ideas from something else isnt a big deal imo as long as you add something new to it

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 11:11:02 UTC No. 879790

>>879286
How do you get the low resolution effect? is it inside the program or do you use some postprocessing outside?

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 13:30:38 UTC No. 879818

>>879790
I just set anti-aliasing to zero and render at a low resolution

You can still use the pixelate node if you want though

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 22:08:35 UTC No. 879948

Come up with basics, start small with an idea and build the foundation around it. Don't think of it like having to have this amazing thing done, start on small things and work your way up. I love writing loglines personally, but that's me.
>Idea
>Logline
>Outline
>Synopsis
>Beat sheet
>Treatment
>Script
More or less in that order. Based on >>878696 >>879286 and
>a man is tortured by his sins as he searches for forgiveness
Maybe
>An alcoholic hitman considering retirement is asked by his protege to do one last gig
Job could go wrong or his partner betrays him or dies and it's about revenge or old guy betrays young dude cus the job triggers something in his moral compass and so on and so forth. It's your story. Idk if that helps but good luck.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Feb 2022 22:57:03 UTC No. 879955

>>878696
copy something that already exists

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:04:29 UTC No. 881485

>>878696
The goal is to innovate on your ideas. You have a base.
>"a man is tortured by his sins as he searches for forgiveness"
The problem really comes from how you interpret that base. Most consoomers want something intresting and unique, there are three ways I go about it.
1.An obscure fact or detail no one remembers and mix it in.
2.Combine two already used concepts and breed something new out of it.
3.Pull insperation from your own life.

>"a man is tortured by his sins as he searches for forgiveness"
could be
1."Dr. Sergei Brukhonenko, a pioneer in his own right. Creates the “autojektor”, a machine which can revive organisms. Little does he know that in death, his own invention will keep him alive. In a state between life and death. He must find forgiveness from those he hurt to finally pass into death."

2.(lets pull a little from SH, and a little from Inseption) "The town of McCallie is rural to say the least. Hidden deep within the vast deserts of New Mexico it's far from any bustling towns. There's been a problem as of late, people who go to McCallie dont exactly report back, its a small town, people go missing all the time right?. Our protag gets dragged into this as his son decides to find out whats going on. We find out that the town is actually a liminal space crafted by each residents mind, with their darkest fears and memories amplified in this vast ocean of thought. Our protag has to reach his son's mental scape while surviving his own inner demons litterally, reaching out for forgiveness in order to escape."

3."Karl's a bit of a dick, he never actually makes connections with anyone. One night he decides to make a faustian bargan. His soul for some decent friends, however Karl (being as dickish as he is) decides to trick the lord of darkness himself into. This does not go over well and the Devil steals his sight. In order to get his sight back, he must get back together with the person he hates the most."

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Feb 2022 04:53:55 UTC No. 881981

>>878696
Wat da Einstein doin'

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:20:36 UTC No. 882877

>>878696
People often give credit to "inspiration" but waiting for it to hit you takes a long time and it might never come.
It's better to force yourself to make something, even if you end up hating whatever you made, that way you can polish that project further because you get more ideas the more you work on it