Let’s say you have a story that you’d like to see get an animated
adaptation, correct? But, you lack the blood, sweat, tears, elbow
grease, and budget to actually get it produced. I mean, let’s face
it. The average person uses their recurring budget to survive that
day, week, month, or year. Who honestly has enough stashed away to
professionally fund their own animation studio and hire musicians and
voice actors to create their newest productions. Very slim, I
figured. While not exactly at grand-production level quality,
Plotagon Story does in fact contain all of the necessary elements to
accomplish such a grand mountain of a task. Starting out it’s
absolutely free, but absolutely limited as well. There are only a
handful of unlocked scenes and costumes to design your characters
with. Additionally, there are only two voices (one male and female)
for your characters to utilize, along with a small selection of music
to go along with it.
If you’d like to utilize Plotagon to its fullest extent, it’s
highly recommended that purchase the golden ticket (which is around
$40). It permanently unlocks all the scenes and costumes for both
your stories to take place and for your characters to use. Also if
you’d like, purchase the gold package for your characters voices
(starting at $4.99/month). An entire page of voices would always
available for each and every one of your own custom-made actors to
utilize. So, there! You’d roughly be spending around $50 just to
make that dream story of yours finally become a reality, versus
$,1000+ or maybe even $1,000,000+ to accomplish. Now, I know what
you’re thinking. After looking into it yourself, you’ve probably
realized that Plotagon is still limited because everything seems to
be “conversation-based.” You’re absolutely right. However, that
doesn’t your vision is limited either. How?
Simple! Whatever Plotagon can’t do on it’s own such as: good
fight scenes; car/chase scenes; screening multiple entities at one
time; can easily be compensated by the use of stock footage. Yes,
you’ve read correctly, stock footage. There’s multiple sources
online that actually allow the usage of free stock footage for
individual, miscellaneous purposes. The legendary film maker, Ralph
Bakshi frequently used stock footage and rotoscope animation to
animate a lot of scenes that weren’t hand-drawn in many of his
films. To this day, both him and his films are known for being
classic cult icons to many film enthusiast. However after hearing of
this method, this style of animation or story is still not for
everyone. Even so, many would still rather stick to the traditional,
hand-drawn style of animation while others would prefer to use their
own brand of CGI. Either way, that’s what we call the basis for art
in which beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
We could show two, random people the same style of artwork at the
same time and only three outcomes are going to happen: One person
would love it, the other would hate it; Both could love it; Both
could hate it. It just goes to show that there’s no right or wrong
way to do art as you will always have your share of fans, critics,
and even haters. You’ll never please everyone and at the same time,
never offend everyone with your art either. It all boils down to who
you listen to at the end.
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