07-01-2013, 07:53 AM
Love this idea. There's nothing like having a longer project with a consolidated world design to flesh out to really flex the design skills more than any single enviro or character could do for you. I'm finding out now with our project Heathen that it is pretty hard to get a cool consistent design feel going..but so much fun trying! Just wanted to jump in a with a couple of other thoughts:
1. Summer pitch is going on, and this could be a nice framework for getting some stuff done for that. If you could cross-pollinate that with this you might get more participation. ie promote it as using this framework to build stuff up for summer pitch, but if you drop off, then no big deal and you won't have seen to have "failed"
2. In terms of timeframes I think 2 week rounds is the best of both worlds and probably the way to go. As Eduardo says, first week to come up with ideation, the second to finish off your chosen one/s to a higher finish.
3. I think to really get the most out of this, it would be cool if everyone who participated aimed for and managed to get a folio piece or two out of each two week period as well. The two week timeframe means you can if you are focused. One week is stretching it unless you are doing nothing but painting. A month is too long and tempts people to just get in there towards the end
3. I think you should leave it up to the people what their brief is. Let them come up with their own idea. The reason is, from experience, you will get more enjoyment out of a genre or setting or whatever you are more "into". More fun = better work. So yeah, maybe come up with a generic broad brief that people can use if they don't have their own stuff, but let people do what they want if they already have something. Also Eduardo's trick with the combining two random words together really does work for idea generation.
Now having stuck my nose in, I will have to bow out...lol. Working hard on Heathen but this is a thread I'd totally subscribe to! Great work Yolo and keen to see this kick off!
1. Summer pitch is going on, and this could be a nice framework for getting some stuff done for that. If you could cross-pollinate that with this you might get more participation. ie promote it as using this framework to build stuff up for summer pitch, but if you drop off, then no big deal and you won't have seen to have "failed"
2. In terms of timeframes I think 2 week rounds is the best of both worlds and probably the way to go. As Eduardo says, first week to come up with ideation, the second to finish off your chosen one/s to a higher finish.
3. I think to really get the most out of this, it would be cool if everyone who participated aimed for and managed to get a folio piece or two out of each two week period as well. The two week timeframe means you can if you are focused. One week is stretching it unless you are doing nothing but painting. A month is too long and tempts people to just get in there towards the end
3. I think you should leave it up to the people what their brief is. Let them come up with their own idea. The reason is, from experience, you will get more enjoyment out of a genre or setting or whatever you are more "into". More fun = better work. So yeah, maybe come up with a generic broad brief that people can use if they don't have their own stuff, but let people do what they want if they already have something. Also Eduardo's trick with the combining two random words together really does work for idea generation.
Now having stuck my nose in, I will have to bow out...lol. Working hard on Heathen but this is a thread I'd totally subscribe to! Great work Yolo and keen to see this kick off!