Hello everyone, and I’m back with a huge surprise to give you all! But before I begin, I might as well explain what all this is. Yes, this is technically the second part of the post you’ve all been waiting for: my script to a film adaptation of the Poptropica franchise! And in case you don’t know what I’m exactly talking about…
Head to Part One of this post for more!
But if you’d prefer a summary, I discussed the case for a Poptropica movie or television series, why it doesn’t seem terribly feasible or even reasonable right now and why it ultimately should happen. I also provided a teaser as to what’s in the script.
In Part Two, I was initially going to discuss the script in its entirety, but then something really made me change my mind. And that was an exchange I had with Slanted Fish over her posting Part One on the Poptropica Help Blog. She told me how she really liked the idea of actually making the movie as a fan made project or web series, and I gave it much thought. I want to give a reminder: that I am an aspiring children’s book author first and foremost, not an animator. However, things were happening in which everything just seemed to be falling in place. It’s interesting that I took a required animation course in college this semester, and for a previous course, I did a full-on animation with self-done voice work and imported sound effects as a final project, even if it was quite tedious. But I did not yet learn how to digitize my artwork at the time, which was not the case for this animation course, in which I learned the basics of animation and animated my digital art for the first time.
For the course, I got new resources to help me cut the time it takes to animate or at least make the job easier. But I know that if I were to actually make the film, it would be the most ambitious animation I would make yet. I am considering the full extent of my animation abilities (which again, isn’t my number one art field) compared to what the fanbase would expect from something like that, and because of that, I’m not entirely sure about going ahead with it. But since I was entertaining the idea of making the movie, for my final project, I decided to try something interesting: to make a concept trailer for the film. This is not an official trailer, which I would make once a good part of the movie is finished and I had scenes to pull from to craft a true trailer together, as the professionals do it. I made this concept trailer to at least find some common ground between how I feel and giving the fanbase what they want.
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