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There’s been a burst of activity on the forums in relation to advanced scriptwriting, putting some of the development material discussion out there, and applying it to media. Conceptual drawings like the one Jeremy Ray contributed above illustrate the degree of talent and creativity we’ve got on the forum, and its great to see that being charged up.
You can see more details related to the Glitch story (now officially renamed The Ravages) in this forum thread. We’ve also been concentrating on how we can take those story ideas forward for The Ravages in a visual form for teaser media, and have been discussing webcomic and short animated trailer ideas. We’ll be having a member vote on these topics shortly to see which idea our community wants to pursue first.
While visual material exists for the other one of our two scripts, The Unfold, new member Mayec is utilising these to create motion tests for that project. Swarm members should have an opportunity to feedback on these shortly too, as results are posted.
It is great to feel momentum picking up again, and members responding to that, as we move into 2008.
Tags: ASOA, asoa community, crowdsourcing, design, glitch, theravages, writing
Design a feature film poster for our open source movie.
Fame/riches to follow…
Palla has released his latest stunning image for A Swarm of Angels visualisations under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0), so we can use it as the main photographic element of our teaser poster for The Unfold. We’d like you to make the final design.
Brief:
The image explores one of the main visual effects of the story — the idea of the world splitting, fracturing, and unfolding. The poster should showcase this using the photograph as a core visual, but with additional typographic and illustrative elements as the designer sees fit. This is an opportunity to indulge in classic and artistic poster design free of the usual commercial imperatives and informational clutter associated with many modern examples.
Posters format:
Final size - A2 (16.5 x 23.4 in — 420 x 594 mm). Portrait or landscape aspect ratio.
Submissions should be preview jpegs no more than 1500 pixels in length maximum.
All images submitted must fall under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license, with the winning image able to be used in all ASOA activities.
The winning design will be decided through discussion at The Nine Orders forums, alongside Palla and myself. Besides the poster being printed, as well as featured in future publicity and exhibitions, the designer will be entitled a revenue share of any proceeds from the poster.
Submissions are welcome from members and non-members of the Swarm. You can enter by posting a link to your poster image in the comments (contact us for any questions).
The final poster will be made available for purchase so please join the swarm or sign-up to the mailing list to be kept informed and register your interest.
I first came across Osaka-based photographic artist, Palla (aka Kazuhiko Kawahara), back in 2003 or so, via Jean Snow’s website. He was asking for donations to make his first limited edition book, The Book of Palla, containing some of the most amazing architectural photos I’d ever seen. I immediately signed up, and was rewarded by a package from Japan a few weeks later.
It is fantastic to see how Palla’s work has evolved, and being exhibited in gallery shows. Now, of course, I’m also very happy he signed up as an Angel to support this project some years later, especially as some of his photos were a definite inspiration to one of the core elements to The Unfold story.
Palla’s enthusiastically agreed to shape and adapt some of his work for an early poster image for The Unfold, and also to create conceptual images as part of the visual development of the warping environments and buildings as the Unfold begins to manifest itself.
We’re having a vote on which style - shearing, shifting, warps or reflections - appeals to our members. This will help us with the conceptual direction — how extreme, abstract, or verité we want to be — before we create 3D models and moving image examples of this work. We should also then be able to begin adapting it for the first poster for this feature project.
Participate by casting your vote as part of our February Voting Week (you must be a member to vote).
NOTE: Voting is active - February voting round links to all polls
Tags: ASOA, design, palla, photography, vote
Riffing off the design of the top-voted poster chosen by the Swarm in our previous voting day the site’s undergone a dramatic change from red to blue (with added gradient) in the new theme. Display graphics feature more of the ’swooning angels’ designed by poster illustrator Emily Forgot and the layout is generally clearer and more open to graphic flourishes.
The changes aren’t just cosmetic though. The site structure take into account the expansion of project activity, and revolves around the main navigation headings of Fund (joining and process), Film (production team and tasks), and Flow (feedback and distribution). Interact (network and participation) and Consume (downloads and merchandise) will be developed as these activities ramp up in Phase 3 (where we start producing ‘assets’).
The new theme offers more information from the member forum, The Nine Orders, with new topics now featuring in the sidebar, and also includes website commentary (tagged articles through a del.icio.us feed). We’ve got a link to our flickr group photos and a clearer project status box at the top of the sidebar (although this is not auto-updating yet).
The overhaul is a way to bed down our structure in anticipation of the next phase of the project (1000+ Angels), and a way to iron out any content kinks before implementing the integrated member site.
Thanks for everyone’s patience with this Chorus 4 theme (due in part to being sidelined with the aborted Chorus 3). Particular thanks to those in the Swarm who contributed to this design, inputting through the forum and wiki, including cheeshpro, stepinrazor, Paul Freeman, Emily Forgot, leo. For Chorus 5 let’s do an open submission via the forum…
Special thanks to Mosso, who’ve stepped up as our hosting sponsor as our site demands have grown. Great also to have torrentfreak on board as a media partner, particularly as they are one of the lone beacons of enlightened commentary on the new frontiers of distribution and content.
Please help yourself to the new buttons (!), and tell us how you like the new design so we can tweak it and make it better.
Tags: ASOA, asoa community, crowdsourcing, design
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