I was a complete idiot, and posted this further information in one of the other threads that I had started, so ... yeah it's a friday. as that as based on my compositing reel, and led to some confusion as to what aspect of the project I was talking about, I am moving it here, and putting up a "my bad, with link" in its place.
Well, had a random thought, figure I'll throw it out there.
I have ... creativity issues. I love a lot of things, and end up reading or viewing a large amount of stuff. Unfortunately this has led me to second guess my creative nature when it comes to trying to create something original. I am beset with concerns that I am being highly derivative, even if I can't quite recall what specifically I am referring to.
To that end, I think I'll just embrace the concern and go with it.
I thought that I would essentially do not a wholly original project but ... an adaptation of a lesser known property into a "graphic" form. I have seen some impressive fan works in existing properties <looks around> and have really enjoyed a fan Doctor Who webcomic http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=18. And while inspired, I don't really want to tread over already broken ground.
I however have a great love of sci-fi, world-building, and old school pulp adventures. I recalled out of the blue an old series that I loved growing up, never did finish it, but thought that it would really be suited to a long form adaptation. If anyone has read it, would love thoughts on Simon Hawke's Time Wars series.
An interesting series that was told over 12 pulpy relatively short books. clipped from the TVTropes entry :
After the invention of Time Travel, the world has ended war in the present. International conflicts are resolved by sending soldiers into the past to fight in wars that have already happened, but the soldiers have to be careful not to cause a Temporal Paradox, which could have disastrous effects on the timestream. The main characters are members of the Time Commandos, a unit with the job of averting paradoxes by carrying out "adjustment" missions in the past.
The main recurring characters are Lucas Priest, an everyman type who's the main audience identification figure; Finn Delaney, a career soldier with an exceptional service record and a serious discipline problem (he has very little patience with any officer who doesn't earn his respect — which is nearly every officer he's ever met); and Andre de la Croix, who was born in the 12th century but wound up emigrating to the 27th and joining the Time Commandos after getting mixed up in an adjustment mission.
A recurring antagonist, Nikolai Drakov, was introduced partway through the series. One of his plots resulted in attracting the attention of another set of recurring antagonists, Time Commandos from an Alternate Universe who became convinced that their own universe's survival depended on them sabotaging the protagonists' history.
A few interesting things were that while each book had one setting in the past that was the focus, they also each focused on a largely fictional setting based on a bit of classic literature. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Three Musketeers for example. Also there was a fair amount of world building and decently far out there sci-fi.
I am working on getting copies of the books, and will now in tandem with the character work, which can now be a bit more focused with actual characters to work towards and settings to put together, I can start to break down the books to figure out what and how to adapt to a graphic panel story telling structure.
Again, I tend to pick up projects for a time and then put them down when I get busy with other things, so even if I only get this a little bit further along, it is further than I had gotten before.
