Darker Shades of Gray - A BrikSpace BrikFilm

Post by **AlphaLurker** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:28 pm

I am good with microspace! If you all have the parts, I can send you an LDD file with some ship designs! I also have done a fair ammount of experimentation with paint in some of my BrikComics I have on mocpages.

Post by **mgb519** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:54 pm

ForlornCreature wrote:Ok, looks like we got a scenario brewing, but we need a story that focuses on particular characters.
We can use this in tandem with my brikwars animated series to advertise brikwars on youtube and maybe increase activity on this forum a bit.
But an immortal war themed thing sounds ok, I'll have to buy some immortal armor and parts for whatever the ga- I mean Alliance faction is.
I've been watchin tonnes of battlestar galactica lately and that what got me interested. Shaky cam, realistic documentary style filming of space battles is a must.

And masses of vicious fauna.

Post by **AlphaLurker** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:56 pm

What about masses of vicious flora?

Post by **mgb519** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:47 pm

Plants do not have minds. When people have intelligent plants, it is corny and strange. I advise against it.

Post by **ForlornCreature** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:48 pm

I'd prefer to do motion capture type microspace stuff using animation and chroma keying.

Post by **AlphaLurker** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:01 pm

Chroma keying?

Post by **RagnarokRose** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:11 pm

FELC's currently involved in border operations against the allied Baron and Immortal forces, but so are a good number of empires. Arkbrik's done a couple battles on it. D'y want me to put a shot list together?

Post by **ForlornCreature** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:39 pm

The other thing I was thinking is we could make this a series.
Check out this sci-fi series that thefourmonkeys do (this is the most recent episode). It's not great, but it can give you an idea of what we can do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzJ9LzTmLP0

Why don't we pick a faction, make some characters to develop throughout the story, and go from there. Warhead would make an awesome villain, although idk about a scottish accent...

Post by **AlphaLurker** » Thu Sep 22, 2011 11:47 pm

Oh, btw, I subbed forlorn creature.

Post by **ForlornCreature** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 12:56 am

Post #600

Thanks

Oh, Terror Kahn should be like badass almost indestructable villains like those black android things used to be like in earlier stargate episodes.

If this was made into a series we could go a few ways with it. We could do comedy/brutal shit with warhead as the main character. We could do a pure serious war documentary on some of the alliance in their fight against the immortals. Or we could do a mixture of both and have the characters come together towards the end of the season, which would maybe offer a wider range of story oportunities with main characters on both sides.
We should really get Warhead to give us some ideas.

Post by **AlphaLurker** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:22 am

I'm on it!

Post by **ForlornCreature** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 4:17 am

AlphaLurker wrote:Chroma keying?

Green screen/blue screen etc.

Oh, you meant build them based on the LDD files? Maybe. Although Olonthor came up with his brikfilm to go in tandem with his new micro space fleet, so that'll probably be making up the bulk of our designs.

Post by **mgb519** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:43 am

Photoshop can solve a lot of problems.

Post by **ForlornCreature** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:53 am

Photoshopping of individual frames takes time. Editing on a new computer I hope to get in a couple months with sony vegas pro can do more.

Post by **Olothontor** » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:27 am

Gentlemen, there is only one problem with this plan. The ship I had planned to use for this is already built, and it has crew.

I'll go dig up some pictures for reference.

EDIT: Actually, have a thread. I guess I never took any pictures of the crewmen, but I'll do that at some point this week so you can start assembling the parts.

I guess I need to read up on this Immortal War deal, huh? I know next to nothing about it.

My original plan was to have the story focus mainly on the ship and her crew, rather than a single character or two within the ship (along the lines of Battlestar Galactica, Babylon 5, and games like Rogue Trader where your commissioned ship has its own character sheet).