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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 22 Mar 2002.
Epic jointly-produced JMOV?

Epic jointly-produced JMOV?

[I tried posting this to alt.ascii-art, but my news server seems to
have problems... this is the same thing, if you read the other one]

Anyone interested?

Here's my thoughts:
-One [basically] full-length ASCII motion picture produced using JMOV
-One coordinator/compiler, and anyone can pick a scene to ASCII-fy and
email the finished scene to the compiler
-sig's (and possibly self-portraits?) of contributors scrolled at the
end

What I had in mind was something reminiscant of Simon Jansen's Star
Wars ASCIIMATION (http://www.asciimation.co.nz note-this site worked
for me yesterday, but not tonight, just keep trying).  This is for a
few reasons:
1. Some of the art is already drawn (like some of the characters),
making scene production a bit easier.
2. There is already an established size (67x13) and framespeed (15fps)
that seems to work well for the movie.
3. Mr. Jansen hasn't mentioned getting sued by LucasArts.
4. Star Wars scripts are easy to come by.
5. There are plenty of sequels. ;)

Another thought I had was one of those old silent movies, we could
even try the midi NG's to see if they'll make us a midi of the piano
score!  But, I'm not that current on old silent movies.  (That and I'm
not certain how to get a midi file to play simultaneously with a
jmov... hint, hint, nudge, nudge, say-no-more ;)

The scenes could even be posted in plaintext for the whole NG to
review!  We'd have to set a standard ID frame to start each scene
until the final compilation, though.  But that wouldn't be too
complicated.  This is where having one designated compiler comes in. 
In order to avoid redundancy, a central coordinator would have to keep
track of who is doing which scene.  They would also keep backups and
compile the scenes as they are completed into a final product.

Again, anyone interested?

Cheers,
-Phydeaux

ObASCII
                                       ====
         Help me,                      o o~~
     Obi-Wan Kenobi!                  _\O /_
                          ___        / \ /  \
                         /() \      //| |  |\\
                       _|_____|_   // | |  |//
           ,@         | | === | | //  | |  //
           /=-        |_|  O  |_|('   |===(|
           ||          ||  O  ||      | || |
           ||          ||__*__||      (_)(_)
         --~~---      |~ \___/ ~|     |_||_|
         |     |      /=\ /=\ /=\     |_||_|
_________|_____|______[_]_[_]_[_]____/__][__\______________________
[by Simon Jansen 1999,2000 http://www.asciimation.co.nz]

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