I think the idea of heaven being turned into a movie theatre, and God being a spectator is what he is referring to. I kinda like the fantasy elements and humor the idea provides, and thought it gives a lot of artistic and creative freedom to everyone, and we could put the era of where God was at in watching movies in the Renaissance,thus placing the main human character there, so we could give him a Davinci look, and give the Devil a more modern futuristic look. But best not offend people I guess.
Im trying to play around with some new story ideas based on the definition of the term renaissance man,

"A person who is well educated or who excels in a wide variety of subjects or fields. a man can do all things if he will

Commonly thought of as the typical renassaince man, is Leonardo DaVinci, or Michelangelo, people considered to be way ahead of there time, or behind if you will. But a story around someone who is perhaps even more gifted than these two, and so ahead of his time, that he is looked down upon may be more interesting. Or even the opposite, someone who was nowhere near as talented but heralded as a genius.

Last edited by cosmicfool (03-16-2009 8:50 pm)

cosmicfool really grat nice story !!! haha yess i like very much the idea and i think could works very well!!
So who are the protagonits?? I like to imagine God haha looking haha and i think we have infinite possibilities for creativity and gags;)!!!
So this is the big movie maybe:) and yes knowing that we can fins the trailers, right Matthew?
Yes Camaro could be not bad find some gags like yours hehe...
i was thinking about God that is doing the recruitment for the New X Factor for the Artist hehe..or something like this... And every trailers show a different artist doing something for make impression on "God" the judge...hehe
but...anyway...i really prefer a lot the cosmicfool idea hehee;) theatre is really a good place for create gags

ok, so I've been trying to think of a new story without spiritual overtones that would be a bit more friendly to a group project.  The renaissance era is a little tricky to develop a story around that won't be incredibly boring and leave little room for animation. I spent a while trying to think how to make Michelangelo painting the sistene chapel on his back could be interesting to animate, and just couldn't see it, or DaVinci painting the Mona Lisa.
So here is my new idea.
I've titled this story idea "Keeping up with the Medici's."   After doing a little research I discovered that the Medici family asides from being the most influential and powerful family of this era, had commissioned many amazing works from michelangelo and davinci. So my story is  of Davinci and Michelangelo in essence battling eachother to be the favourite artist of the Medici family. The Medici family would consist of 5 people, that are completely open to interpretation and the  designs really could define them. I was thinking the mother and father, the son and daughter, and right down to the butler or we could throw in a baby even, which I know makes for 7 characters:S but we could trash the butler or the baby and even scrape it down to 5, but when envisioning stuff in my head it seems to add a more funny element. The artists in there efforts to please every single member of the family are creating some of the most amazing pieces of art, yet destroying the others work, be it the statue of David, or the Mona Lisa or whatever you want to chose from the long list of amazing works they have produced.
I think a cartoony(Looney Tunesesque) feel would work pretty well for this idea, and I think it allows a lot of room for some really interesting designs for the family. Stylistically for the animation this idea reminds me a little of "A Gentlemans Duel" which if you haven't seen check it out, as it did a good job of creating some cool characters from the era.
Let me know of your thoughts on this story idea, I can always come up with some more ideas, and more minds working on an idea always makes things more interesting. I would like to commit to an idea pretty soon though for this project

Last edited by cosmicfool (03-17-2009 8:18 am)

some leonardo stuff for inspiration

One more quick thought here. Would be nice if we could all agree on a means of sharing our work, just so we all aren't flipping through pages of conversation here to find what we are looking for, as I imagine this thread can get up to page 448 pretty fast with people submitting pics, and links, and videos. I know the facebook group I set up we can submit videos and pics, and have conversatiosn through, and we can be a little more organized that way. If people don't like the idea of that, I don't know if someone wants to take the work to set up a devoted site, like they have going for the Devils, Angels and Dating short.
If it's gonna happen we gotta be organized!!!

very nice sketch sergok;)!!!! i like!!!

And perfect as aways Matthew;)!!!! i reeally like hahahaha the movie trailer idea is perfect;)!!!
i m doing some sketch for the characters;)...i think tomorrow i ll start to post something;) on FACEBOOK of course:)
So come on guys i think could be really better if we use facebook or if you have some ideas about where we can post anc comments let me know:)...cosmic if is a problem for someone facebook, we ll could use blogspot really ...

okok we have to see

Ok.
So im confused as to which story you guys are wanting to go ahead and start working on.
Im gonna ask this way.
Option A - The movie trailer idea, which is the idea of heaven being the movie theatre. (see page 2 for my explanation of this idea)
Option B - The idea of the quarrel between DaVinci and Michelangelo to impress the Medicis.

Both are set in the Renassaince era. I think option a will have more drama and less humor and be a little more story driven. Option b, will be more character driven, with a lot more humor potential, which allow for more cartooniness(if thats a word)

Option B.

Option B too


If everyone for facebook than I have to make an account there

ye i vote option b, iv got a facebook account and al tr finding the group later

hi guys,
i've made my account on facebook how can i join our group?

So im gonna start writing as much as I can out for this on good old fashioned pen and paper, Im assuming we are gonna be doing pantomime to music for this particular idea? So the faster we can get into the animatic stage the better here
Im gonna draw up some personality profiles for the characters and submit those asap, theres going to be obviously Michelangelo and DaVinci.
As far as the family goes, we have a lot of room to play with here, and i'm imagining this is where the most difficulty will lie story and design wise.
If anyone has any good musical ideas now would definitely be the time to bring that up. Preferably something classical, something italian, and something without singing.

Edit - Sweet, so i transferred stuff over to the group page on facebook, and it seems to work easily for me. I made everyone admins, so we all should have the same influence over the site. If you try to upload anything and its not working lemme know!

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