Firefly- The Animated Series

POSTED BY: Mangolo
UPDATED: Friday, February 2, 2007 15:08
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BROWNCOAT1

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:56 AM

Keep us posted as to any developments on this front Mangolo.

Personally, I am a little more optimistic in my belief that you would get more than 1/2 of the browncoats to watch an animated series. The main reason being that we are all so anxious for a continuation of the story that I doubt many would truly care what the medium, so long as the story is being told.

Take care and keep flyin'!

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JERAXUS

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:39 PM

im fore it

DONCOAT

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:42 PM

Mangolo,

Is there a sample of your animation anywhere that's available for (free) download? Even a low-res clip on YouTube would be nice to get an idea of the dynamics you can do. The stills are impressive, but it would be great to see how the characters move.

You should probably have something of that nature available before you approach The Boss, since you'll need to prove your animation techniques are suitable for our beloved 'verse. Obviously the clip wouldn't necessarily have to be a Firefly scene, just something in the style you're proposing to use (or similar).

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WALRUS

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:47 PM

Indeed, a sample of your work would be greatly apreciated

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:14 PM

Here is our current trailer for strange frame It is in Quicktime 7, so if you don't have that installed you'll only get sound.

http://www.strangeframe.com/new_trailer.htm

If you want the motion sample, watch it all the way through. We have it start slow and build.

WILDHEAVENFARM

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:52 PM

We know that most of the cast does voice acting. Hell, half of them were on Justice League.

I would be all for that if it was done to continue the show and not just cash in on the rabid nature of the fan cult. When you picture it, what style do you see? By which I mean, can you site a current program that looks like what you see?

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:09 PM

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Originally posted by History:
Mangolo,
I also checked out your site and trailer for StangeFrame: Love and Sax
http://www.strangeframe.com/trailers.htm

Very nice.
And was it my imagination or were those Firefly-like class vessels in the trailer and a "save River"-like theme as part of the storyline?

However, if your output for this project is "Fall 2009", a Firefly/Serenity animated project would be many years away, would it not?

Respectfully,
History

I blame it on the collective unconscious. Shelley and I began development on our "fix everything that is wrong with Trek" show in 1999. No aliens, no FTL, no white male lead whose name starts with J (really think about it SGA, SG1, Jeremiah, B5, STOS, STNG, etc). and of course people swearing in Chinese (damn Joss we were on the same page!!!) We began our ad campaign in 2001, within a few months of our original pitch "You're trapped in a fishbowl without walls, falling endlessly around a flickering candle. No hokey hyperdrives. No Federations or galactic empires. The speed of light chains everyone to the same star: step too far away and the Long Dark will eat you alive." - Firefly came along as the new 'anti-Trek' (NY Times) and we thought we were dead and indeed our chance for a TV series became limited - MTV offered to buy our idea, but we weren't selling - we wanted to make this stuff ourselves! We ditched the TV series and wrote a screenplay that takes place just before the TV scripts. We raised a chunk of change (not the full budget) and went into production in 2004. Those ships were designed in 2001 based on some models we actually bought at that time. (So it is not just our minds tapped into this stuff). There is definitely some similarities between River and Naia, but all written before Shelley and I had seen Firefly (you can check our WGA registration!), but our flick is about fringe musicians and a space trucker named Grenman who hauls them around.

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MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:12 PM

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Originally posted by lokie:
I say your on the right beat. I do Maya 6.0 and Lightwave btw :) I wonder if we could put together a group of 200ppl to work on the series. You remember the Halo 2 animations don't you? Well, with grade a graphics, which takes nothing more than time and effort, that which we have :). We could make it look downright real. real enough anyways. If we could get the cast to do voice overs, we could do it as a non-profit thing. That's where the 200ppl come in :P since we'd all just be doing what we can as we can. I believe after a years worth of work on the verse ships and crew, then we could follow with animations every month or so at the very least. Either a 30minz episode every week or a movie every month would be great. But I do wonder about the time it would take to create the verse and the crew, cuz that would be the biggest portion of production. But once we got all that implimented, animating our creations should go pretty smoothly. I'm willing to help anyways, SHINY IDEA!!!

Please send us samples!!!

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 9:16 PM

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Originally posted by WildHeavenFarm:
We know that most of the cast does voice acting. Hell, half of them were on Justice League.

I would be all for that if it was done to continue the show and not just cash in on the rabid nature of the fan cult. When you picture it, what style do you see? By which I mean, can you site a current program that looks like what you see?

Mary
Always a beast, never a burden.

No. We have our own style (check out the link above). I think this could work in other styles, but would be best served by ours. I want to mention for all those who love Firefly and animation, they should check out Cowboy Bebop in the unedited form.

DOCTROID

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:09 PM

Having watched the trailer, I'd say... Interesting. But honestly, I don't see anything in it that would persuade me you can do something that'd capture anything like the style of "Firefly". This is not to assert that you can't, of course, only that your trailer isn't the proof. Certainly it seems your characters are visually rather stylized and, I have to say, not particularly "deep" in the sense of moving with the subtlety of a real person. And given that, to me, the whole point of "Firefly" is that these are real people, I don't think doing it in this kind of style would work well.

The more I think about it, the more I think I would not be likely to enjoy an animated "Firefly" with the original characters. Yet, possibly, a series about different people in the same 'verse might work... if you can find a way of de-emphasizing the people while still presenting good stories.

But all in all, I'd feel a lot better about a live action "Firefly".

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