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Post by viscera zombie on Apr 15, 2024 2:59:28 GMT
question to all my fellow object show/comic creators out there!! what are some scrapped show ideas yall had?? and why did you never go through with them? for me personally a lot of my older ideas were scrapped either because i found them too generic or i felt like they were too ambitious for me as a beginner. first one was a competition show set in a haunted house. i had 2 versions of this idea, the 1st would be the host being a ghost and the 2nd being that the host was the house itself which was alive. i still like this idea and would love to go through with it but my medium of choice is comics and i dont know how well i'd be able to pull of a competition show in comic form. second idea was another competition show that i got a few pages into making before i decided it was too generic. its main "shtick" was all the characters were canonically high schoolers and it'd have confessionals, essentially making it more similar to something like Total Drama Island than others. but still, too boring for my taste. similarly my third scrapped idea was a high school drama parody. i thought something making fun of those old nickelodeon and disney tween sitcoms would be super funny, but it never actually ended up going anywhere because i very quickly came up with the idea for Roadkill and settled on it. but i guess technically that's a fourth scrapped project because there was actually a version of it from way before its current iteration where i used digital art and a more typical art style. i cant entirely hate that first draft because its what pushed me to actually go through with the project instead of leaving it as another forgotten idea/project that got started but quickly canned. but i restarted the project for a lot of reasons, mainly the writing, which was just... bad, very easy to tell it was a first attempt with no planning. it was less comedy focused but i couldnt exactly say the horror was scary or thrilling at all, it was really hard to follow what was happening because it was so badly paced and i would frequently cram too much dialogue in each panel, and there was a certain scene in it that i still feel was very distasteful and only added for the sake of justifying killing off a character (why would i need to justify that? the killer is the villain!!). so yeah, not great, and im much happier with the rewrite. that kinda turned into a rant about my old writing at the end there XD but im super curious about yalls old ideas and canned projects!!! its fun to see where creators started and how it led to their current work. im gomna go for a while now tho cuz my tablet's at 3% battery LOLLLL i'll come check out the replies and chat later ;3
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Post by viscera zombie on Apr 15, 2024 3:01:57 GMT
question to all my fellow object show/comic creators out there!! what are some scrapped show ideas yall had?? and why did you never go through with them? for me personally a lot of my older ideas were scrapped either because i found them too generic or i felt like they were too ambitious for me as a beginner. first one was a competition show set in a haunted house. i had 2 versions of this idea, the 1st would be the host being a ghost and the 2nd being that the host was the house itself which was alive. i still like this idea and would love to go through with it but my medium of choice is comics and i dont know how well i'd be able to pull of a competition show in comic form. second idea was another competition show that i got a few pages into making before i decided it was too generic. its main "shtick" was all the characters were canonically high schoolers and it'd have confessionals, essentially making it more similar to something like Total Drama Island than others. but still, too boring for my taste. similarly my third scrapped idea was a high school drama parody. i thought something making fun of those old nickelodeon and disney tween sitcoms would be super funny, but it never actually ended up going anywhere because i very quickly came up with the idea for Roadkill and settled on it. but i guess technically that's a fourth scrapped project because there was actually a version of it from way before its current iteration where i used digital art and a more typical art style. i cant entirely hate that first draft because its what pushed me to actually go through with the project instead of leaving it as another forgotten idea/project that got started but quickly canned. but i restarted the project for a lot of reasons, mainly the writing, which was just... bad, very easy to tell it was a first attempt with no planning. it was less comedy focused but i couldnt exactly say the horror was scary or thrilling at all, it was really hard to follow what was happening because it was so badly paced and i would frequently cram too much dialogue in each panel, and there was a certain scene in it that i still feel was very distasteful and only added for the sake of justifying killing off a character (why would i need to justify that? the killer is the villain!!). so yeah, not great, and im much happier with the rewrite. that kinda turned into a rant about my old writing at the end there XD but im super curious about yalls old ideas and canned projects!!! its fun to see where creators started and how it led to their current work. im gomna go for a while now tho cuz my tablet's at 3% battery LOLLLL i'll come check out the replies and chat later ;3
yknow i just realized this is probs the wrong topic for this thread but its too late now lol. staff plz don't smite me
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Post by tangerines on Apr 15, 2024 4:11:26 GMT
yknow i just realized this is probs the wrong topic for this thread but its too late now lol. staff plz don't smite me youre fiiiine the board topics are just suggestions more than anything. i can happily move this thread if you want though! also re: the rest of your post, i've never made a show myself but i have several ideas that have yet to manifest, and i'll probably rework a lot if i do anything with them. i don't have time rn im checking this forum to procrastinate an assignment XD but i'll try to remember to follow up in here later
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Post by rainbowserval on Apr 15, 2024 5:36:53 GMT
I did scrap one of the TBC shows at the suggestion of someone else (they thought it was too much work and I'll get burnt out). It was called Medieval Objects Venture Elsewhere and it was basically D&D but with the OOCS1 cast, and the campaign was about recreating classic fairy tales but in their own ways
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Post by goon on Apr 15, 2024 16:34:00 GMT
Not exactly a scrapped project but I definitely scrapped a lot of ideas for this thing. I wanted to make an object comic called Battle For Best Friends Forever (BFBFF) which sorta centred around this cruddy therapy circle/cult(?) thing. Each week someone would get fed up and leave the group until it was just one person and the host. LOL. Before the therapy circle idea it was just gonna be in nowheresville like a lot of object shows but I thought it needed some kind of focus. It's just scrapped/on the backburner cause I'm having a hard time coming up with a solid premise for why the hell these guys would want to be apart of this sketchy meetup anyways. Like you mentioned, I have some ideas that would be a bit too ambitious for a beginner comic writer hahah. I still like the cast though. I plan to have a use for them someday hopefully
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Post by Exit on Apr 15, 2024 17:05:12 GMT
I came up with these characters (Twinkie and Kumquat) a good while ago. They were going to inhabit a weird world with a lot of "laws" related to retail; ex. their names were shortened version of long product names like you'd see in a catalog, there was a literal catalog of items that they were being "generated off of," etc. It was all kind of trite, so I gave it up. :-P I drew these after I had already scrapped the concept because I don't hate their designs. I should repurpose them... maybe? :-L
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Post by CD on Apr 15, 2024 17:42:13 GMT
Not exactly a scrapped project but I definitely scrapped a lot of ideas for this thing. I wanted to make an object comic called Battle For Best Friends Forever (BFBFF) which sorta centred around this cruddy therapy circle/cult(?) thing. Each week someone would get fed up and leave the group until it was just one person and the host. LOL. Before the therapy circle idea it was just gonna be in nowheresville like a lot of object shows but I thought it needed some kind of focus. It's just scrapped/on the backburner cause I'm having a hard time coming up with a solid premise for why the hell these guys would want to be apart of this sketchy meetup anyways. Like you mentioned, I have some ideas that would be a bit too ambitious for a beginner comic writer hahah. I still like the cast though. I plan to have a use for them someday hopefully AGHH GOON I ALWAYS LOVE YOUR OBJECT CHARACTER DESIGNS SO MUCH!!!! I hope you can use them for something someday because I'd hate for some of them to go to waste. Alibis especially I love that thing. Spray too. At least you still have some other guys you can work with. (Hi Poutine.)
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Post by goon on Apr 15, 2024 19:40:54 GMT
AGHH GOON I ALWAYS LOVE YOUR OBJECT CHARACTER DESIGNS SO MUCH!!!! I hope you can use them for something someday because I'd hate for some of them to go to waste. Alibis especially I love that thing. Spray too. At least you still have some other guys you can work with. (Hi Poutine.) THANK U THANK U I definitely still want to use these characters for something for sure. I'm very fond of muddy, spray and party horn in particular. Someday.
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Post by CD on Apr 15, 2024 19:44:00 GMT
THANK U THANK U I definitely still want to use these characters for something for sure. I'm very fond of muddy, spray and party horn in particular. Someday. Oh absolutely. I'm super fond of poo- I mean muddy's design too.
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Post by goon on Apr 15, 2024 20:26:40 GMT
Oh absolutely. I'm super fond of poo- I mean muddy's design too. Not her name.
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Post by natus on Apr 15, 2024 21:21:28 GMT
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this is a concept ive just had in my mind where theres a bunch of object/creature type guys living in a town (and theres a blockbuster/movie rental where some of these guys work at)
it was SUUPER early in the works, i still dont rlly have a plot in mind just a world with guys in it PLUS theres dragons in it ! and a werewolf( tho objektwulf is what i call em, shoutouts to my oomfie for that title i love it GENUINELY) while this thang is just kinda in limbo i would love to maybe turn it into a game, i got rpgmaker and one day id love to tinker with that and make a stupid little game with these fellas . oh and also all of them are gay thats important to the "stoooory" (ignore that i said theres no plot ok)
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Post by CD on Apr 15, 2024 21:23:39 GMT
(ya gotta click on it to make it bigger)
this is a concept ive just had in my mind where theres a bunch of object/creature type guys living in a town (and theres a blockbuster/movie rental where some of these guys work at)
it was SUUPER early in the works, i still dont rlly have a plot in mind just a world with guys in it PLUS theres dragons in it ! and a werewolf( tho objektwulf is what i call em, shoutouts to my oomfie for that title i love it GENUINELY) while this thang is just kinda in limbo i would love to maybe turn it into a game, i got rpgmaker and one day id love to tinker with that and make a stupid little game with these fellas . oh and also all of them are gay thats important to the "stoooory" (ignore that i said theres no plot ok) Ahh I remember when you were making these designs... Honestly I just enjoy seeing you make object characters for the hell of it. You and Goon have some of the most stellar designs. But I understand the Urge to do something with them.
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Post by viscera zombie on Apr 15, 2024 21:26:38 GMT
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this is a concept ive just had in my mind where theres a bunch of object/creature type guys living in a town (and theres a blockbuster/movie rental where some of these guys work at)
it was SUUPER early in the works, i still dont rlly have a plot in mind just a world with guys in it PLUS theres dragons in it ! and a werewolf( tho objektwulf is what i call em, shoutouts to my oomfie for that title i love it GENUINELY) while this thang is just kinda in limbo i would love to maybe turn it into a game, i got rpgmaker and one day id love to tinker with that and make a stupid little game with these fellas . oh and also all of them are gay thats important to the "stoooory" (ignore that i said theres no plot ok) oh these designs are FUUUUUNKYYYYY!!! i love them! the idea of object werewolves is so fun too! if u ever bring this one back i'd love to see where u go with it
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Post by natus on Apr 15, 2024 21:27:55 GMT
(ya gotta click on it to make it bigger)
this is a concept ive just had in my mind where theres a bunch of object/creature type guys living in a town (and theres a blockbuster/movie rental where some of these guys work at)
it was SUUPER early in the works, i still dont rlly have a plot in mind just a world with guys in it PLUS theres dragons in it ! and a werewolf( tho objektwulf is what i call em, shoutouts to my oomfie for that title i love it GENUINELY) while this thang is just kinda in limbo i would love to maybe turn it into a game, i got rpgmaker and one day id love to tinker with that and make a stupid little game with these fellas . oh and also all of them are gay thats important to the "stoooory" (ignore that i said theres no plot ok) Ahh I remember when you were making these designs... Honestly I just enjoy seeing you make object characters for the hell of it. You and Goon have some of the most stellar designs. But I understand the Urge to do something with them. AUUH ur so super nice SEE I DO HAVE A HABIT FOR MAKIN DESIGNS MOSTLY FOR FUN but then im like ohhh i like them i wish i could do more so i can draw them doing funny things & that causes that creative ITCH if that makes sense haha
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Post by natus on Apr 15, 2024 21:30:07 GMT
oh these designs are FUUUUUNKYYYYY!!! i love them! the idea of object werewolves is so fun too! if u ever bring this one back i'd love to see where u go with it OBJECT WEREWOLVES HAVE BEEN LIKE. my thing i guess HEHEHA !!! i already rlly love love werewolves and other ghouls so like. HOW COULD I NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!
if/when i go back to this id def love to go more into it !!!!!!!! its super fun thinking about how these tropes would work in the object world
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