Cross-Media and Animation

Cross-Media and Animation: What has Changed? A Special Presentation for Cartoons on the Bay , Italy (www.cartoonsbay.com) 17 th April, 2010 by Christy Dena Director, Universe Creation 101

What Has Changed?
People involved
Production processes
In-house & specialist creation
Shared assets
Quality continuity management
Universal not hierarchical design standard
Across media incubation
New skills

‘ Cross-Media Production Process Comparison’ Chart, Crossover Nordic Conceived by Crossover Nordic Team, chart visualization by Daniel (DaPonte, 2008)

Cross/Transmedia Companies
“ The Stupid Fun Club is an entertainment development studio. The ideas developed here can be manifested in video games, online environments, storytelling media and fine home care products.”

Nov 2007 Oct 2009 Nov 2009 Shared Assets = visual continuity

“ Taking something like Brothers in Arms and making it into a historically accurate documentary, is awesome. We made two hour and a half shows in three and a half months, with gameplay and cinematics together. We took these games and made them into a property in line with the main message.” Gregg Backer, President Foglight Entertainment, Hollywood and Games Summit [ G ]

“ human bible” (Caldwell, 2008, 16)
“ walking bible” (Espenson, 2008)
… and…
World/Universe Guide

Transmedia Concepts
Setting –
can it be depicted in both games & narratives? (medium constraints)
Is it a place where players would want to spend forty, sixty, or hundreds of hours in?
Is it vast enough to be explored?

Transmedia Concepts
Characters & Character Classes
Can the characters be watched & played?
Are they scalable?

Transmedia Concepts
Events & Problems
Enigma = something that can be thought about in the passive experience and enacted in the player experience

Visualisation

Liquid Comics (Virgin) “…uses the medium of graphic novel publishing to develop properties for theatrical live-action films, animation and video games”

A quick note about 2D & 3D and audience behavior…

Scary Girl

Gorillaz ‘Dirty Harry’

Thank you! Christy Dena, UniverseCreation101.com

Cross-Media and Animation

by Christy Dena on May 25, 2010

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