Dice Scum, the series.

Orthodox Chrischanity said:
If we go with the semi-rural town in South Carolina, likely a local GP might be opposed, or Aidan doesn't know, so he takes a trip to the city to get the injections done. Anyway, so it's irrelevant, then.

I don't know much about the American system, but over here it's a prescription, so going to the GP and just asking for more works,
Unfamiliar with the American system myself, too. Unfamiliar even back in my home country. Trans* still puzzle us. This is a learning experience for me, and I'm trying to be a good ally and learn. From people that aren't condescending douchebags. /powerlevel



Thinking mom now calls him 'caterpillar', thinking it's a wonderful term that her daughter is becoming a beautiful boy butterfly. Sends care packages with cookies that have caterpillar frosting designs, little caterpillar plushes. Mom doesn't realize how childish that is.

Dad doesn't care. Maybe he's "getting the son he always wanted", and is supportive in that sense.

Anyway, diverting again. We've got our four main characters, the first group interaction is practically done, then we're going from there. Once this first scene is done, we'll start sending lines out. Break out your Audacity and good microphones, folks.

One final character for the first episode we forgot to think about: The store owner. I think he's just a cashier jockey. Veritable encyclopedia of comics and games, but is kind of spacey. Perhaps he's Gloria's dealer, and partakes of the wacky tabacky, himself. Folks call him "Owl-Eyes" on account of his eyebrows.
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Great ideas, guys. I'm loving how fleshed out Aiden's becoming; he already feels like a legit trans boy!

In any case, should the storyboards be done before or after the voice recordings? I'm okay with whatever, but having voices so I know how exaggerated to make the actions look to storyboard with would be preferred.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
In regards to fleshing out Stephen a bit so he's not just " lol anime nerd", I'd say he's got a severe lack of social skills. Like cannot interact with people without coming off super awkward and creep. And he's fully aware of it, but has a lot of trouble breaking that habit. So he uses his money as a means of getting people to like him and to want him to hang around. He's still way too into anime/Japanese culture, but he does still want people to talk to and whatnot.
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But we already have our super-sperg in Chris. Maybe he's depressed, and he knows that the group is the only good thing he has? So he's terrified of losing his only friends?
 
APerson said:
But we already have our super-sperg in Chris. Maybe he's depressed, and he knows that the group is the only good thing he has? So he's terrified of losing his only friends?
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Stephen already spergs out when it comes to Japanese stuff, remember? Like the whole drug cartel RP that I think is gonna be the second episode.
 
SteelPlatedHeart said:
Stephen already spergs out when it comes to Japanese stuff, remember? Like the whole drug cartel RP that I think is gonna be the second episode.
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Well, yeah, but how many spergs can you have in the group? I mean, it's like 1 in 88 people, and even though gaming should concentrate them it's still a bit of a stretch to have two in four.
 
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Well, yeah, but how many spergs can you have in the group? I mean, it's like 1 in 88 people, and even though gaming should concentrate them it's still a bit of a stretch to have two in four.
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They're different types of sperg though, Chris is focused on numbers, data, and that side of the game, while Stephen is focused on anime, cartoons, the visual side of the game. As long as they're still distinct they can both be spergy, although maybe one just has traits and one is fully diagnosed (and the tumblr character keeps insisting the one with traits just self-diagnosis)
 
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They're different types of sperg though, Chris is focused on numbers, data, and that side of the game, while Stephen is focused on anime, cartoons, the visual side of the game. As long as they're still distinct they can both be spergy, although maybe one just has traits and one is fully diagnosed (and the tumblr character keeps insisting the one with traits just self-diagnosis)
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Okay, then, Chris is the diagnosed and Stephen's the traits. (Also, this is off topic, but can we fulfill the Bechdel test in one of the episodes so they can't bitch about that?)
 
In terms of voices, the characters could have a certain aspect in their mannerisms:

  • Stephen has a very whiny, bratty tone of voice that becomes even more like that when the game doesn't go his way. His voice also goes really high pitched whenever he spouts a Japanese phrase, to the annoyance of everyone else.
  • Tram is laid back most of the time and his tone would be very relaxed, almost like a borderline surfer dude voice.
  • Chris has a snobbish monotone that he often uses when explaining the rules of the games, and only really emotes when he's excited or annoyed at another player that isn't playing the "right" way.
 
So, if we want to name the show in the same fashion as Gen Zed, I found this handy pronunciation chart.

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Hey thar!

Someone pointed me by way of this little project due to the fact that GenZed's caused me to go on a long lengthy ramble about how it looks like a terrible cash grab buuuut enough of that. I'm loving how this is coming along. So much so that I tossed up an account to see what I could do to help, be it animation or for VA work. I'm more of a 2D animator so I could probably provide you lot with an animatic or something as soon as the storyboards are in.

I was attempting to do some variations on what @rookie was doing but my hand refused to cooperate so all I managed to churn out was Aiden. Simplified his hair a bit for animation purposes.

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Hey thar!

Someone pointed me by way of this little project due to the fact that GenZed's caused me to go on a long lengthy ramble about how it looks like a terrible cash grab buuuut enough of that. I'm loving how this is coming along. So much so that I tossed up an account to see what I could do to help, be it animation or for VA work. I'm more of a 2D animator so I could probably provide you lot with an animatic or something as soon as the storyboards are in.

I was attempting to do some variations on what @rookie was doing but my hand refused to cooperate so all I managed to churn out was Aiden. Simplified his hair a bit for animation purposes.

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Welcome to the farms, dude! We could definitely use another animator, since we'll be using different animation styles, and I'm liking your concept for Aidan.
 
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theBox said:
Hey thar!

Someone pointed me by way of this little project due to the fact that GenZed's caused me to go on a long lengthy ramble about how it looks like a terrible cash grab buuuut enough of that. I'm loving how this is coming along. So much so that I tossed up an account to see what I could do to help, be it animation or for VA work. I'm more of a 2D animator so I could probably provide you lot with an animatic or something as soon as the storyboards are in.

I was attempting to do some variations on what @rookie was doing but my hand refused to cooperate so all I managed to churn out was Aiden. Simplified his hair a bit for animation purposes.

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Glad to see you made it! Really digging your Aiden design too, eager to see more.
 
Thanks guys! And yooo~ Yes, the thing piqued my interest. Thanks for tossing the suggestion my way.

I'd probably recommend around three-four people for animating? Depends on how long we're going for per episode(?!). Like... are we doing a full 30 minutes or 10 minute shorts? Until then, yes, keep the plans coming! I'll poke around the other characters and doodle a bit more.
 
theBox said:
Thanks guys! And yooo~ Yes, the thing piqued my interest. Thanks for tossing the suggestion my way.

I'd probably recommend around three-four people for animating? Depends on how long we're going for per episode(?!). Like... are we doing a full 30 minutes or 10 minute shorts? Until then, yes, keep the plans coming! I'll poke around the other characters and doodle a bit more.
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From what I remember, the episodes are going to be fairly short, like 7-8 minutes(though I guess it'll depend on if our animators are willing to put in the work for 10 min eps. To work around the time constraints, we talked about doing character introductions as mini-episodes. One for each character, showing use their day to day life outside of the game store. That way we don't have to spent the first few main episodes introducing everyone fully.
 
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Yeah, that's a good idea. Specially with the minisodes. Saves all the exposition of explaining characters or trying to work in introductions in the narrative. I was gonna suggest making them like vlogs but that doesn't really go with the theme, huh?
 
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theBox said:
Yeah, that's a good idea. Specially with the minisodes. Saves all the exposition of explaining characters or trying to work in introductions in the narrative. I was gonna suggest making them like vlogs but that doesn't really go with the theme, huh?
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Yeah, vlogs would be a bit out of place. I'm sure that's how Gen Zed will be starting and ending their episodes though: vlog standup routines by Transgenderie the transgendering transgender.

Oh, and for those who don't follow the Gen Zed thread, one of the forum
Members is actually going to their panel at a com tomorrow. They're gonna be showing the pilot animatic(because apparently the first episode still isn't finished). So we'll have new data soon.

So what do you think of the characters we've come up with, @theBox ? Any suggestions?
 
Ooooh the animatics. Now THAT is something I wanna see.

So far, I'm liking the cast you lot are building up here. They're looking more like characters than... caricatures. Even Hayden. For now, I'll chew on what's already here since I don't wanna go muscling my way in with my newbie status. There's a lot to work with, after all!
 
theBox said:
Ooooh the animatics. Now THAT is something I wanna see.

So far, I'm liking the cast you lot are building up here. They're looking more like characters than... caricatures. Even Hayden. For now, I'll chew on what's already here since I don't wanna go muscling my way in with my newbie status. There's a lot to work with, after all!
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How sad is it that Hayden, who is basically an amalgamation of the worst parts of tumblr, is still more of an actual person than anyone in Gen Zed?
 
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