Dinotopia : (Comic in Progress)

[tarion]

This is the thread where the script for the comic will officially be made.... to write the script imput details and descriptions in (parenthasis) and quotes should be done script style ex.

Tarion: (sarcastically) "No... i hadn't noticed the heirogliphics just changed to cuniaform on us without warning... not at all." (he grimaces and then sets down his book of advanced translation of dead saurian languages)

[tarion]

Confirmed Characters in the story

1) Bentfeather
(Thundertail)
2)Tebo Lewis
(Thundertail)
3) Ajax
(Tundertail)
4)Tarion
(Tarion)
5)Falokar
(Tarion)
6)Asrial
(Tarion)
7) Theodore (Tarion's Father)
8) Adonis (Tarion's Mother)
9) Mondor
10)Patronas
11) Drinwa Tasow
(Drinwa)
(any and all others that ask to be)

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[Thundertail]

Bad guys:

11) Peter Triceratops (Mondor's son)
12) Hydra Monoclonius
13) Vox Ovaraptor
14) (Two human cronies, no names)
15) Nicolai Sanders (Bentfeather's former Partner.)

10) 'Petronas' (Correct spelling)


*** Plus as many 'Bit characters' as needed***

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I think the comic book should start at a beginning, so in all beginnings on Dinotopia, someone has to be washed up on shore. I suggest that a commercial jet liner crashes in the sea near the island, and a hand full of survivors make it to shore.

Thier introductions could be helped by Bentfeather as well as many others. They could become involved with minor adventures, and cause many kinds of trouble. All newcomers would need to find thier true worth before finally fitting in.

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Dialogue, ect. will follow...

[tarion]

Alright I can hardly wait, two characters that belong to Drinwa already can be put in, and they are Drinwa Tasow, and Flint Tasow both are millitiant types but Drinwa is the more solder type, where as Flint is more of a first aid, scout support type. from there you're allowed to make as many humans as you deem necessary...

[Thundertail]

Here's a big step (Almost forgot!)

We should think of a title for the comic.
(Any suggestions?)

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My suggestions:

1) "Permanent Layover"
2) "Unexpected Arrival"
3) "The Found World"
4) "Flight of Happenstance"

UGH! Those are lousey!... I hate all of them!
Maybe someone else has better titles...

[tarion]

Hmm well i would usually wait and put the title in last based on what we do in the comic... but i can try a few suggestions

i liked
"Un expected arrivals"
or we could try
" A Land Apart From Time: The Comic addaption of Dinotopia"
or use the title Dinotopia and then give it some sort of goal type name such as "The Legend of the Saruian Stone of Hope" or something to that effect not official names here

[Thundertail]

We'll work on that one...
Since a comic book is formatted on a series of cartoon blocks, we should begin to build the opening scenes...
Here's my idea on the opening:

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(Place title here)

Block 1:

(The scene is a serene sky with an ocean down below. Not a cloud in the sky except a dark blotch of clouds on the eastern horizon...)

Block 2:

(Enter a commercial jet liner, a Boeing 727 streaking the sky above, heading toward the reddening sun; oblivious of how the dark blotch of clouds is growing!)

Blocks 3, 4:

(All of a sudden they are overtaken by a huge electrical storm! The pilot and crew do thier best to fly out of it, but a massive lightning bolt pummels the jet.)

Blocks 5, 6, 7:

(This sends all instrumentation haywire, and they send maydays. The plane loses control and falls out of the sky, crashing into the tsunami driven sea.)

Blocks 8, 9:

(Emergency procedures commence, and soon all passengers are out in life rafts; huge storms rage all around them.)

Block 10:

(Time passes, and the storm is over.)

Blocks 11, 12:

(The ten passengers in the life raft look all around, but see no other life rafts.)

Block 13:

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Here's where dialogue begins...
(All I got so far!)

[tarion]

sounds good, but at the way you're describing it that'll be at least two pages, which i can do... and from there two of those ten passengers should be Drinwa and Flint... but i like where this is going so far

[layla12719]

Hey ummm.... Is there anyway to add another character somewhere? Or am I too late?

[tarion]

you are not... the comic is still in pre production stage so the concepts are still in progress... you may add a character, just be sure to give full descriptions and details

[Thundertail]

Just checking back on this one...
Sorry for being away a while. Other writings, RP's and RL keeps my plate full!

How's things going on it?
Any progress?...
LMK if you need more plots, ect...

Laters!

[tarion]

well so far i'm thinking we should do the comic as a separate story, not the one we're currently rping, also... i've done a few concept art pages and a few photoshop pieces but nothing major, i need to figure out backgrounds and such before i can really start drawing, however i suggest we get a cast together and start a script

[Thundertail]

Yeah, not many ideas have come to me. As for backgrounds, maybe try things like in the books/ Gurney's illustrations/ scenes from movies cartoons and series. (Perhaps add natural scenes from photos and stuff from around the world. Examples of that might be the Hopi cliff dwellings, Ankor-Wat in Cambodia, the village of Tattouine in Morocco [Not the one in Star Wars! LOL!], various European villages, landscape of China or Mongolia and many other exotic places. )

As for the characters, I'm sure the detailed characteristics of each would be most helpful; but all saurians take on thier basic dinosaur shape (Take my illustration of Bentfeather I showed you, which was just a basic Microraptor shape with custom colorations. I didn't add clothing, jewelry or other acoutriments Bentfeather might be wearing; but that is left to your own imagination!) The other characters can be portrayed in the same way.

Here's some things to consider before taking the next step:
Name of the cartoon.
Cast of characters.
The plot (Perhaps you could poll the others for suggestions too. Make it a purely democratic comic.).

Let's get EVERYONE in on this!...

[layla12719]

Name: Layla Gabrielson
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Species: Human
Location: Crystal Caverns
Appearence: Long dark brown hair to her knees, big deep brown eyes, 5"7', straight posture dispite her lack of self confidence, beautiful but doesn't know it.
Personality: Self-conscious, quiet. She acts like a follower, but she has many ideas of her own that she wants to share, but doesn't know how exactly. She hates playing the damsel in destres so hides her emotions inside. This, however, gets her hurt more often than not. She is very secretive and it hurts to talk of her past life, but the truth could be the only thing that can set her free.
Background: Layla's father drank and abused her and his favorite words to her are the ones that haunt her to this day. She never knew her mother and won't talk about what she knows about her mother. Her brother was her best friend and they started a small band and when she was 14, a talent scout offered them a supervised recording contract. Excited to be finally getting away from their abusive father, they eagerly signed the contract. A couple days later, Noah, her brother, was in an accident that mangled his right arm, making performing impossible so Layla went solo. At her first concert, her brother gave her his lucky rabbit's foot and was convinced that it worked because in the crash, he held it in his left hand. When she turned 15, Noah died due to overlooked internal damage and Layla became very depressed. To keep her from eating herself to ugly on comfort foods, Layla's agent, Michelle, got her hooked on drugs. two months after her 16th birthday, Layla got on a plane to go perform her first overseas concert. She never reached her destination...
How Layla got on the island: When Layla first got on the plane, she took some sleeping pills to hopefully keep her knocked out for the terrifying flight (she never much cared for flying). When she woke up, she was surrounded by people explaining to her that her pilot must have lost control of the plane and crashed into the reefs. The dolphins had pulled her ashore and the natives of Crystal Caverns had been looking over her for a couple days. They kept saying a word that Layla couldn't comprehend, but when she walked outside, she understood. The word was Dinotopia and that's where she was. An island where humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony. There's just one problem... Dinosaurs are extinct... "There's only one explanation," she'd tell herself, "I must have overdosed and now I'm in a coma..."
Posessions: She has on her concert dres (White dress shirt with the sleeves rolled half way up, a black crop vest with a pocket chain, a black tutu skirt with white lacey design and small chans, black leggings, black and white converse, and her Black fedora with a black and white striped band-she's amazed that it survived the crash, but then again... it's her dream, why not be stylish right?). The only things that washed ashore that were of use were her guitarr (heavily damaged by the water), her nonfunctioning iPhone (not working for the same reasoning), and her brother's lucky rabbit's foot attatched to one of her chains.

Is this detailed enough? Should I change anything or can I help on anything? let me know! =)

[Thundertail]

That was great!
The character will come out better in illustration when there is a good backstory.
(It will let people see it is a real charcater and not someone two-dimensional.)
I have other cartoonists where i live help by trying to create what they look like too. (The saurian ones still look like their natural counterparts - no individuality even though i try to tell them so! The humans they try to draw like other human figures they have drawn before - again, no individuality.) All the ideas they have shown so far probably would do no good. They are professional cartoonists and always want to get paid, so i can't ask them to do too many things!( LOL!)

Well, that's all I got so far! Laters!