Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Magic Kaito Animation Project (again)! This is going to be a fan-run project, attempting to animate the legendary lost chapter of MK 1412 - 'A Clockwork Heart'. It's an extremely ambitious project that aims to direct and produce a fully animated episode with voice acting and sound effects. The timeline for this project is very tenuous at the moment, since it's liable not to be finished at all! :3 I remade the intro post because the interest form was crappy.
Here is the NEW interest form, because the last one was a mess that didn't let me have responses. Look below for requirements on what every role will be doing.
Now, requirements. Keep in mind this may lessen depending on how much of every role shows up.
Scriptwriters
Scriptwriters must provide at least a page of script individually. This does not mean you will have to write a full page on your own - far from it. It is highly recommended that you work together! This just means that of everything you contribute, it must come out to about a page.
Storyboarders
Work together with the scriptwriters to come up with exciting scenes! Try to contribute about half a scene on your own. (A lot of these will be less strict.)
Foley Artists
These will mostly be sound artists. They make the various sounds. Contribute at least one sound. There may not be enough for everyone. Also keep in mind the relative volume and material - not everything sounds exactly like it looks.
Voice Actors
There will be a limited number of these. If sign up ever happens, everyone auditioning must send in a recording of their auditions. Please keep in mind they are very sought after positions, and we may have only one understudy for each, if needed.
Background Artist
As the name says, these artists will create backgrounds and occasionally foregrounds. Please contribute at least one.AnimatorsAh, the essential animators! Since this is a 25-30 minute project (hopefully) if around 25-30 animators minimum applies we can get this off the ground. If even more apply, then this could change. At absolute minimum, one minute is required from each animator.
Concept Artist
Will work with the scriptwriters and storyboarders. Please contribute one concept.
Music Artist / Editor
To assist with music for the project! Background music is essential. Please help to develop at least one track. We will be using some from the anime proper, but there will be some new music needed.
Video Editor
To put everything together! Please help to contribute at least one minute of footage.
And that should be all! If you don't want to assist with the project but would still like to see it, I request you at least fill out the interest check. Also do keep in mind that it's dubious whether this project will be completed at all. Once enough people have shown interest in this, a rough timeline will be drawn up and presented. And if anyone has prior experience to working on a animation team or short, please reach out! We need all the help we can get!
So I have gotten some pushback on the Form and the project as a whole. I just want to say thank you for considering the community and me. So I wanted to clear up a few things.
One: I mistyped at minimum being a minute for animators. I only caught it after uploading, and I meant to change it but I got bogged down with changing the form and such. It should be at maximum a minute. If we get more than the required amount of animators for one minute then work will lessen.
Two: I wasn't expecting to do this project right away, or even this year. I might have jumped the gun on that with those tags. I hate to feel like I'm lying to anyone, but it's true that I don't have really any experience with these sorts of projects. This was a cool idea that I had and people seemed to cotton to it, so I made the interest check. Again, jumping the gun. Sorry. I want to wait a while before officially starting this (making up a timeline, sending out a sign up sheet, having a dedicated team, etc.) so I can have leadership and animation team experience.
The reason a lot of these projects dissolve is due to poor leadership, and I don't want that. But I also don't want to slam through it and create a subpar product, and I also don't want to completely hand it over to someone else. I want to be there through the entire project's runtime, plus just dumping this big of a venture on someone isn't very fair. It's a bit selfish of me, I know. However, even if I was completely sure of myself, I would wait a bit before starting.
So, in conclusion, I'm going to wait a bit before starting this, possibly a few years, maybe less. If I do start this project up, I might do what this responder said and do everything a little bit at a time, or animatic style.
(Also, if you are this responder, thank you!)
My deepest apologies. I just don't think I can do a project at this scale at this time in my life. Please be respectful of my decision.
