Post by Warewolf1) What would be your dream film/(web)series?
Some novels that I think might make interesting animated movies are:
1. The Lord of the Rings: This has been done both as both live action
and animated movies, so I suppose it would be a remake. I have not seen
the movies and it has been a long time since I read the books, so I don't
really have any new "twist" or original way of reimagining them either.
2. The Wheel of Time: There are 15(?) novels in this series, and they
are 800-1000 pages each, so even just the first one might be enough for 1
or even more than 1 movie.
The series is written so that in the first makes it look like the "bad
guy" is defeated and everyone will live happily ever after, but in the
second novel it turns out that only a few henchmen are defeated and all
the novels after that (except perhaps the 15th one) have a "continued in
the next novel" sort of ending.
I think this is because the publishing company gave a temporary contract
to Robert Jordan to write the first novel to see how it would sell, so he
had to make it appear that the bad guy was defeated.
Since it did sell though, they extended his contract and he wrote the 2nd
book so that only some of the henchmen were defeated, and the contract
has just been continually extended as long as the novels are best sellers.
3. The Dragonriders of Pern, or at least the first 3 novels of this
series. I have read these and some of the other novels in the series,
and consider the first 3 the main story and others as either "prequels"
or sort of "side stories", for want of a better word.
As for "webcomics," there seem to be quite a few out there, but the one I
think I would most like to see as an actual animated web series would be
the powerpuff girls as reimagined on the snafu-comics website.
I think the storytelling and writing is much better than the silliness
that was original show was, and I also like the artwork better than the
original.
Characters from other cartoon network shows (Samurai Jack, Dexter, etc.)
also make appearances, so I don't know if there would be any copyright
issues, but this is all hypothetical, and in reality, I doubt anyone is
actually going to animate this web comic.
Post by Warewolf2) Which (web)series or films/OAVs have come closest to your definition?
I don't know, but I have seen some episodes of the animated web series
RWBY and thought it was quite good.
Post by Warewolf3) If you don't have the time (or artistic/writing skill) to make it
yourself, would you be willing/able to support it on Kickstarter or a
similar crowdfunding site?
Probably not, but let me clarify that.
If a studio such as Disney or Ghibli or Toei or whoever wanted to make a
series or movie out of one of the things I discussed above, they can dip
into their own ridiculous money piles of money to do so, they are not
getting any of mine.
I might or might not buy the resulting DVD, but if they came to me and
asked me to decide which one they should do, I would hope they would at
least give me a copy or the resulting DVD as a consulting fee.
If my neighbor or best buddy were to make any of these and was selling
DVD's of his movie to offset some of his expenses, I might buy his DVD.
As for crowdfunding sights, my understanding is that they are essentially
a way to invest in startup businesses, and if I had the money to invest
in a startup business, I would talk to an investment councilor first.
If the money were essentially a donation, the answer is no. I am willing
to donate money to something like the food bank or the homeless shelter,
but not to get a web series made, no matter how interesting I think the
results might be.
Brian Chrstiansen