Reply To: COLLAB2021 – HQ – Stylized Fantasy Environment

[Jake Korosi]

….I have some thoughts!

Omar as usual has knocked it out of the park with his idea, and I am REALLY excited about it; but I think there is room in this case for some compromise or at least some clarification of the rules.

Firstly and most importantly, Kent announced a month-long collab, that would be finished by the end of April, and already he has amassed a number of registrations several times the size of the Dog Pound, that signed up for that project.  So I think it is important that those members, many of whom are beginners, get the content they signed up for, and presume Kent still plans to stick to that.  So that group should still have something at the end of April that they can call a completed project. 

So what I propose – or agree with, in case this is what everyone already had in mind! – is that we treat these as two parallel projects, or a “forked” project.  The first project is exactly what everyone sees at the top of this thread – it starts in April, it ends in April, and those who have participated can feel proud of a finished project in terms of the highlight stills as originally planned, and so forth.

The second “fork” is the veteran team who wants to Go Beyond.  Our collab files for now will be maintained separately from the Main Project.  If there’s enough of us to warrant organizing sub-teams, these should be different obviously from the Main teams we belong to.  We can begin this month – but, here’s the thing: we don’t need to rush, because the April Project will be getting its own planned “completion”, and what we’re doing will be added on top of that.  I’m not talking about another seven months; but, say, we can start now, pause or slow things down during April as work shifts to the Main Project, then pick up in May to finish whatever is left.  The resulting Ultimate Final Animation will, of course, credit both project teams as one.  

Does this idea make sense?