User blog:Bonkilemonster/Total Drama ~Unnamed~: Progress! (No.1)

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Haaaloo there people reading this blog :D My name is Jake and a few days ago (even a week. Wow, time goes fast ._.) I posted a blog about my new Total Drama "fanfiction", an animated show that I'll animate. There's a lot of things to do to make a show, and I didn't want to go through the whole process of making this "unnamed total drama series" alone, so I asked if I could publish the progress and get some commentary by you guys, and I got positive answers! :D Let's start with the first issue, or 'progress bar' or 'progress commentary' or whatever! (:

Fast recap: Jake here, and in this blog I'll show you the progress I've done in the last few days in my animated Total Drama fanfiction series (which is still unnamed). Enjoy!

General
The most generic progress that I've done is of-course naming the series. Actually, I still haven't named it... I've some kind of a prototype - Total Drama Gone Wild. Like 'TD-World Tour' reveals this season will be a world tour, and like 'TD-Revenge of the Island' reveals the "revenge" (radioactivity) of the island, I want the name of this series to describe or to reveal what will happen in the season - which is wild stuff. So I thought calling it "Gone Wild"? I donno, it brings a catchy and gimmicky feeling to the series. What do you think? Can you suggest another name in the style of "cray-cray" or "crazy"? I would love to hear your suggestions!

Another thing is the length of every episode and number of contestants. I don't know if you've ever animated (if you did - AWESOME!), I didn't animate before but from what I've seen in starting this project and from what I've learned from other animators, the process is very very very very long. If I'm animating every episode on it's own, it'll probably take about a few months between episode to episodes. I don't want to wait that long, I guess that you probably don't want to wait so long too - so I've decided to cut the number of minuted in every episode from 20 to about 14-16 minutes. If it'll go fast, I may make the episodes longer. One last thing is the number of characters which from 22 was cut down to 19, 10 girls and 9 boys. The episode length and the change with the number of contestants will make every episode faster to make, it's not going to be 3 days, but in some amount less than the original plan.

Fast recap:
I suggest naming this series "Total Drama Gone Wild" - Just because this season in really wild. What do you think about the name and what other names you suggest? The length of every episode is now 14-16 minutes, and the number of contestants now is 19, instead of 22 - this will make the episode creating a shorter, easier process.

Unnamed Character
First character rotation! Whoo-hoo!

General info: As you can see this guy is pretty mean, pretty snobby too, his stereo-type is "The Popular Dude (+in High-School)". Though he's very very cruel and bad, he's not the main antagonist. Another thing I would say is that he has a look-a-like female partner, who together are the "kings of the class". we all know this annoying couple in school, the popular rich kids who always hates the other average, cheap, non-popular high-schoolers.

Design: You can see the "king of the class" stereo-type matches his summer-ish school uniform, a tie, a white shirt and jeans. I didn't want to give him a full blazer and long jeans (like a real high-school uniform), cause then it'll look like he's in the middle of the winter and not in a summery camp.

Problems: A. I don't have a name for him! what do you think should be his name? I thought about Rick, or Richard, but those names don't fit the character at all.

B. I not sure about the design. Actually, I don't know what the problem is in the design, but there is a problem. What do you dislike about the design? How to make it better? (:

Fast recap:
Meet Unnamed! He's very cruel and always insults the other contestants with his friend look-a-like partner. What do you think should be his name? How to make the design better? What do you think about the overall character?

"The Not-so-smart Girl" - Maia
Another Character! Hey :D This character is my first ever character design. I know what you're thinking, It's terrible. The chest area is way over-sized (and I donno why...), her head is huge, her arms are weird and the palms and legs just - Yuck. So I decided to re-design her. and while I'm designing the new style, I'm seeing a lot of problems. Help? (OH, bty, in the next paragraphs I'll be referring to Maia's re-design, so ignore her old design on the left for now) General info: Maia is a very nice a friendly girl, her stereo-type is "The Not-so-smart Girl". As her stereo-type says, she's not 100% genius, though she's absolutely not the dumb girl like Lindsay. She can be a good help to her team in a time of a challenge, but she can be an interruption as well. Being clumsy and funny does not stand in her way of having a nice sized plot in the season.

Design: Her Clumsiness is caused mostly by her being tall, and her pony hair which always gets in the way. But that, she has a plain blue shirt, neon-green pants, and a pair of red All-Stars.

Re-design and problems: There are major differences between old Maia and the new one. For example, the pants and legs are completely re-designed to make her more "Total-Drama", an ear had been added, her height changed, her bellybutton is now gone and more. Problems! I don't see her good yet, she's still missing something, and her face is still not good. What do you think? What could be better? What design you liked better? (:

Fast recap:
Meet Maia, My first ever contestant design. She's very funny and clumsy, not so smart but has a interesting plot in the season. What do you dislike about the design? How to make it better? :D

The Host With the Most?
I know your'e seeing mostly problems and not progress, but this is how it goes this time XD Here's another problem! (:

"The host with most" is the most known character in the Total Drama series and even the series' mascot. But - should he be on the new series? I mean, haven't we seen enough from Chris McClean? Wouldn't it be better with a whole new host to give a fresh feeling to the show? That's on one side - but on the other side is the design. Designing a new host will take a lot of effort, thinking about the new personality and so it wouldn't be a Chris copy. A grownup host? A young host? A female host? A male host? Taking one of Chris's HD pictures and entering them easily to the show is way easier. What do you think?

Fast recap:
"Oh god, another season with Chris?" may be a thought of one of you when you hear the next season of TD is also hosted by Chris- or you may be happy that Chris is staying. Should he be on Total Drama -Unnamed-? or would it be better if a new host is shown? and on the technical side - Chris McClean is easier to make and enter to 'Flash', while designing a new character can be hard to be. Who do you think should host the show? MAYBE BLAINLEY?

Ok guys, that's it! that's all the process I did! Of-course I edited and made-up some more plot, characters and more, but I had a feeling adding these things will be too much for the first blog... Make sure to leave a comment, it really really REALLY helps :D

Have a sparkling day!