CREATING MY OWN ANIMATED SERIES: RIFT 

A pretty good decision in my opinion.

Thanks! 😂

I’ll be keeping that in mind!

Appreciate it!

Thanks for the love! Indie creators have to stick together 💪🏾 keep at your art and I know someday you’ll make it big too!!

The goal is to have a short film/ Animation test done by fall of next year. As for a full animated pilot that depends on a lot of different factors so hopefully by next year I will have a clearer picture on how long production will last.

Can’t wait

I’m glad the video could help!! And I’m sure your art style is fantastic, just gotta keep moving forward!

For me personally whenever I start with a new story idea, I come up with a loose plot initially but my main focus is always the characters. No matter the setting of your story people will attach themselves to your characters and their individual stories first more than any plot so that’s why in my personal opinion creating compelling characters should always be your top priority. From there once you have an understanding of who your character is, what their dreams and goals are as well as their flaws and fears it will become easier to write out their journey and build the world around them so everything is more harmonious instead of a bunch of loose ideas crammed into a single story. But that’s my process for starting new stories so it may not work for everyone, I hope this helps some though and you can start on that Novel!

@@IndependentAnimation ​​⁠I feel I have a good main character. They a synthetic parasite created by an alien species in order to advance their effort in a war. However the program was put on ice and never used. they were discovered by accident when a science crew explored old ruins. In that form the main character neither had consciousness or will and infected their human host in unconscious state. Only after possessing the host were they able to obtain consciousness, and woke up to a world where the war they were destined to fight in is over, their species exterminated by an enemy now extinct, to a crew that hates them by accidentally killing a negligent crew member. The books subplot is about autism and depression, finding a way when everything is lost. But I can’t think of a main plot

That’s a very captivating story! If I had to make a suggestion on a possible main plot, I would say take your main character and thrust them into another war setting having to struggle with fighting for a cause or people they may or may not believe in and also have them try and decide who or what they are beyond being an instrument for someone else fight. But like I said just a suggestion at the end of the day it’s your story!

@@IndependentAnimation that would track the captain of the mid sized archeology ship was previously a captain of a capital class battle cruiser. He is a turtle like alien whose species was at war with earth. Although the reason for the war are hazy it’s generally believed earth was running low on water and his planet was covered in fresh water. His position was granted due to peace negotiations after his species lost the war, and the need to strengthen the military after war. Treated to a massive demotion and bigotry, I hope it’s not too clumsy of a metaphor for racism.

The captain definitely has a solid motivation for wanting to use the main character for his own gain and maybe one day regain his old position and status, and I would say it would be better to compare it to some innate prejudices people have instead of racism. Especially when talking about discrimination of different species that would probably mesh netter with the story I feel.