Animation Movie Production

[appliedgravity]

hey all,
My company is planing to take up a complete film production (animation - 100minute)

basically we are producing it and a us company is marketing it.

what could be possible reasons for failure ?

just thought to ask.

cheers
satya

[Ed_Gavin]

Originally Posted by appliedgravity

what could be possible reasons for failure ?

I'll start...

• Bad story
• Characters with no appeal
• Low production quality
• From a company stand point putting all your eggs in one basket and it fails ala Final Fantasy and Square Soft

[Graphiteman]

-Too many chefs
-noncreatives not giving room to creatives
-creatives getting caught up in technical aspects only
-not being true to ones vision
-allowing marketing and trends to wag the dog.

P.S- "successful" to me doesn't always mean big box office and failure deosn't always mean a "bomb".

[Daniel Poeira]

Make cute characters with nive toys and you'll be fine. It worked for the Powerpuff Girls...

I strongly recommend this article:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...w=wn_tophead_3

Specially where Brad Bird talks about why he decided to work at Pixar. I think it's very important in a full-feature movie that ONE person answer for the whole concept.

[siouxfire]

Appliedgravity, that's a daring venture. I agree with all the previous comments. (Daniel, thanks for the link to the great article) From a very, very dark experience some years back I'd also say time can be a difficult factor to pin down. Don't be too optimistic about how quickly you can work because whatever you plan, you can always use more time. This leads to bloating budgets or starving animators, neither of which are good.

I have to say this because 100 minutes seems like a lot. I think most of the major animated movies of late have been between 65-85 minutes. Anyhow, I wish you the best of luck and hope to see the result.

[prem]

I think
some points are to make success move,
1. good story
2. way of present the story
3. good production (3d or 2d animation or live action film)

prem

[abvox]

You can have the most beautiful animation in the world with the best story ever written...

But if your voice acting sucks, you're outta luck.

Same goes for your sound track and sound effects.

In other words, the big picture has to balance, and all elements need to compliment one another.

Good luck!

ab

[appliedgravity]

hello all,

thank you for the awsome comments.


i reallly appreciate it.

regards
AG Team

[Wade K]

Hey Satya,

I just noticed you are from Hyderabad. Do I know you possibly? I know Satya is not an uncommon name in Andar Pradesh, but I thought I would give it a try. I was living in Hyderabad last year, working for Dataquest. Yes, I was the Canadian white guy, directing the Hosehounds animation (I say that because white folk were somewhat of a rarity in Hyderabad, and when there was one working in animation, all the animation studios would come to know about it).

Anyways, just curious.

To answer your question, you want a story that will be marketable throughout the world, and not just the country you live in, in order to be a success. When I was living in Cochin, I had a disagreememnt with the studio owners, as they wanted to produce a series based on a Malayalam comic strip (and a poor one, I might add). There was no way that they/I could sell it internationally, and thus, we would never make the production costs back. You need to think of the same thing.

Cheers

Wade

[appliedgravity]

hey wade,

thanx for the comments. i am from WDI and have lived here for very short time. This is my new venture with front end office in NZ.

Thanx for the inputs and the comments.

keep in touch
satya