AO Comic, now AO Movie? OMG!

**deronel** · Dec 1st, 2006, 18:03:42

Originally Posted by Windkeeper

No script received as of yet....still hoping.

Hoping that someone writes one for you or hoping that you can finish it before FC goes bankrupt? =)

**Highttower** · Jan 8th, 2007, 01:23:52

Windkeeper...I feel your passion in wanting to create an AO Movie.

I've been a paying AO customer since 2001. I've never once canceled my account. I actually have two paying accounts

and none of my toons are over lvl 200 lol. Man, I'm hyped now. The efforts you've made to rally up an interest for an in-game movie is awesome, and you are looking for a script!? POW, a coincidence....I think not.
I'm currently bouncing between two phases:
1.) The idea has been in my head for about 2 years. I wanted 2007 to be the year for me to make it happen so I'm in the scripting process as we speak.
2.) I've also been trying to read as much as I can of the stories already created as well as a refresher with the AO time line and the Prophecy book (which I own). I've already found some similarities with other player made stories in relation to permanent death. (I was devastated)

Written below is my cover intro for the Celtx scripting program.

21 Dec 2006
AO: Life Cycle
Status: In Progress

My objective is to tell a story that I've created and express it in the form of Machinima. I will be using Celtx to create a script which will help organize a collaborative effort in the manifestation of my story.

Machinima is on a major uprise. Cinema created on one's personal computer (machine). It's an avenue to express oneself using "player characters" as actors in a Massive Multi player Online Role Playing Game(MMORPG) environment. One of the most popular of Machinima is the game, World of Warcraft(WoW).

The story/script I will be sharing is base on my first MMORPG from the company Funcom called, Anarchy Online(AO). The original story the game is based on "Anarchy Online: Prophet Without Honor", which is written by Ragnar Tornquist. The content of AO is still living and growing, ever changing based on new content added from Funcom and the players of AO since 2001. The content of my story will not change the fundamental in-game storyline. I only intend to present a script which is focused on the relationships of a few key non-storyline characters and there personal story in the Anarchy Online world.

Anarchy Online is the first SciFi based MMORPG as well as one of the oldest MMORPG out on the market. To some degree it has far out lived it's life expectancy. The graphics and functionality compared to todays MMORPG's dates it's self. But, my goal is to be creative in using the actual in-games scenes and animations. The level of production I would like have is based on the same concept production as the open source movie "Elephants Dream."

Sorry for the long @ss post. I will be opening my Celtx project soon for those who are interested in viewing the progress.

v/r
HT on rK2

**Brunte** · Jan 8th, 2007, 17:11:15

Sounds like fun, but my suggestion is this.

Make a short one first. If you able to do that... and did enjoy doing it, then move over to next step.

2 hour movie will need a lot of work. If it end up bad then you get mad. ^^,

Just my suggestion, good luck.

Regards,
Brunte.

**Binarybits** · Jan 9th, 2007, 15:08:02

I agree with brute there about something short first before feature-film length. I would even say do something about 30-120 seconds long like a commercial for Fair-Trade etc. make a few simple scene transitions, camera movements, if you want a special effect I am sure some piece of 'high tech' could easily malfunction and burst into flames if not completly explode.

**aratak** · Feb 12th, 2007, 06:07:19

Will be any castings? :P

I'm interested in helping

/tell Karniceiro

and oh bump

**Timewarped451** · Feb 14th, 2007, 01:52:28

I would LOVE to write. OMW to getting creative.

**Tondrin** · Feb 14th, 2007, 05:27:53

is there anyway i can get in here for casting since im omni? i can roll an alt and dress him in social armor

./tell darktondrin (btw <3 your comics)

**Guernica** · Feb 14th, 2007, 20:06:20

aw would have been fun if you wanted to do a CGI movie. 3d animation/game design is my major, yo. ;(

But if you really are going to do this, you ought to storyboard it out. Cinematography (camera angles, the way you frame your shots, rule of thirds yatta yatta yatta) is uber important.

**MistressRed** · Feb 15th, 2007, 08:26:56

Originally Posted by Highttower

Windkeeper...I feel your passion in wanting to create an AO Movie.

I've been a paying AO customer since 2001. I've never once canceled my account. I actually have two paying accounts

and none of my toons are over lvl 200 lol. Man, I'm hyped now. The efforts you've made to rally up an interest for an in-game movie is awesome, and you are looking for a script!? POW, a coincidence....I think not.
I'm currently bouncing between two phases:
1.) The idea has been in my head for about 2 years. I wanted 2007 to be the year for me to make it happen so I'm in the scripting process as we speak.
2.) I've also been trying to read as much as I can of the stories already created as well as a refresher with the AO time line and the Prophecy book (which I own). I've already found some similarities with other player made stories in relation to permanent death. (I was devastated)

Written below is my cover intro for the Celtx scripting program.

21 Dec 2006
AO: Life Cycle
Status: In Progress

My objective is to tell a story that I've created and express it in the form of Machinima. I will be using Celtx to create a script which will help organize a collaborative effort in the manifestation of my story.

Machinima is on a major uprise. Cinema created on one's personal computer (machine). It's an avenue to express oneself using "player characters" as actors in a Massive Multi player Online Role Playing Game(MMORPG) environment. One of the most popular of Machinima is the game, World of Warcraft(WoW).

The story/script I will be sharing is base on my first MMORPG from the company Funcom called, Anarchy Online(AO). The original story the game is based on "Anarchy Online: Prophecy", which is written by Ragnar Tornquist. The content of AO is still living and growing, ever changing based on new content added from Funcom and the players of AO since 2001. The content of my story will not change the fundamental in-game storyline. I only intend to present a script which is focused on the relationships of a few key non-storyline characters and there personal story in the Anarchy Online world.

Anarchy Online is the first SciFi based MMORPG as well as one of the oldest MMORPG out on the market. To some degree it has far out lived it's life expectancy. The graphics and functionality compared to todays MMORPG's dates it's self. But, my goal is to be creative in using the actual in-games scenes and animations. The level of production I would like have is based on the same concept production as the open source movie "Elephants Dream."

Sorry for the long @ss post. I will be opening my Celtx project soon for those who are interested in viewing the progress.

v/r
HT on rK2

Anarchy Online: Prophecy? I haven't heard of that anywhere... are you sure you don't mean Prophet Without Honour?

**Timewarped451** · Feb 18th, 2007, 00:30:46

I don't know of a Prophecy, either. Not in the download section of AO media. If you have a link, please post. I'd be interested in reading it.

**MistressRed** · Feb 21st, 2007, 08:14:23

Originally Posted by Taddi

I don't know of a Prophecy, either. Not in the download section of AO media. If you have a link, please post. I'd be interested in reading it.

agreed, I'm reading Prophet Without Honour AGAIN to get me back into the RP spirit of AO... I think there should be a test that froobs go through to play AO for free, that test is a questionaire about Prophet Without Honour, to make sure they read it

that way those that do read it, will love AO as much as we do!

**KarmaKamikaze** · Feb 21st, 2007, 18:19:47

This seems like quite the idea...

I'd be willing to offer character, ingame creds *Buy some clothing ;P*, and my voice.

Send a pm, email, or /tell Tanisthonus. I can get you a link to another voice project I'm wroking on.

**Ayria** · Feb 22nd, 2007, 06:36:34

writing i can do.

wanna know what i've done? iv written (but have yet to publish) a full length novel (not concerning AO) and I'm in the works of writing a second one. I cannot claim to be the best at it nor the one for the job, but I can offer my skills and resources to aide in what ways I can.

if you have ideas for a script I am open to hear them or if you wish for me to use my ideas i can create a draft/summery fairly easy

**Highttower** · Mar 6th, 2007, 23:37:41

I'm such a n00b. I made the correction in my first post about "Anarchy Online: Prophet Without Honor" uuhhh did I ever mention that it's an AWESOME book!

No disrespect to the Author and loyal AO fans.

Work has been whoopin my @ss and haven't made time for the script. But, not a day goes by without me jotting a note or two down on scrap paper of character development ideas and story progression etc. I even keep a sketch pad next to my bed for when I wake up with ideas....I jot it down.

V/r
HT

**Maimed12** · Mar 7th, 2007, 00:03:12

I'll voice over for heck-noob, those are always fun.

**Sefus88** · Mar 7th, 2007, 00:50:50

whoa. I quoted myself....

Originally Posted by Sefus

I had a cool idea just now...

It goes along with the episodes thing.
I don't know maybe.

Episode 1: Welcome to Rubi-Ka (Anarchy Online)
Episode 2: The Notum Wars
Episode 3: A Portal Has Been Opened (The Shadowlands)
Episode 4: Alien Invasion
Episode 5: Lost Eden

Now I realise thats probably jumping ahead a bit but, just an idea I had just now

Not too early for this NOW is it?
I think it would be cool. Also a great way to tell the story of AO...

and hell most of the story is already there.
which means less writing. which seems to be where we are stuck atm.

$0.02

**Xaun** · Mar 7th, 2007, 01:58:59

For those budding artists RPers/Actors/Writers out there whom might like to work on a graphic novel even if in precursor to such a movie, as graphic novels are highly detailed story boards, please check out this thread below as it is a project I have been scheming up for a few months contacting people getting opinions and planning how to move forward with it.

Tri-factional AO Graphic Novel

**Windguaerd** · Mar 7th, 2007, 22:29:54

Originally Posted by Xaun

For those budding artists RPers/Actors/Writers out there whom might like to work on a graphic novel even if in precursor to such a movie, as graphic novels are highly detailed story boards, please check out this thread below as it is a project I have been scheming up for a few months contacting people getting opinions and planning how to move forward with it.

Tri-factional AO Graphic Novel

Niiiice!

Ehem, TEST AO MOVIE FOOTAGE if you missed it.

**Windguaerd** · May 8th, 2007, 13:12:09

Someone get on this! =P

**Demenzia** · May 8th, 2007, 15:03:41

Heh, that sounds pretty interesting. Unfortunately, I wouldn't be able to take part in such an ambitious project--not before 2010, if everything goes well and I actually pass my competitive exam on the first attempt. But I can give, uhh, moral support. And ideas, if some happen to cross my mind.

I used to edit videos about 2 years ago, but as others have already mentioned it, it's pretty time-consuming, and then nothing is completely achieved until you've found the proper video and sound compression to apply (ohh, the lovely 4-minutes long MPEG that took days to download because they were 300 Mb large >.<). XviD used to be pretty good at the time, although that was with raw sources... does FRAPS use compression, by the way, or is it lossless?

Hmm, maybe voice acting for a very minor role, if it's not during school year... Oh, well. In any case: good luck with the project!

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