War of the Worlds Animated Series

[Gerkinman]

Hi, my names Daniel, tho im known in the flash animation comunity as Gerkinman. Some of you may have even heard of me. Anyway, ive been working on an animated series based on War of the Worlds for some time now, and animation has recently begun *rest of the time was spent doing scripts and storyboarding* So i thought id show some images from the movie in progress.


Flare on the side of Mars


Our hero descovers the landed Cyclinder,

Now, this movie isnt going to be the serious kinda thing that the other movies in production are. Its a comedy set in there nearby town of Nimbin (Nearby to me that is). After months of research and map studying ive found that the areas in Wells novel ad the areas where i live (Which is in New South Wales in Australia) is not all that different, infact the only real difference is that this area is alot more hilly. Ive set in in the own of nimbin because i already have a series based there, and i thought itd be a good saga for the series.

Heres the 1st 2 episodes in 1 convienient flash movie: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/212146

So yeh, let me know what you think. ^^

[ArmoredTrackLayer]

FANTASTIC!!! NIMBIN is pretty good. LOL we could all use a bit of humor round these parts lately. Go for it dude.

[Gerkinman]

Im trying to keep it as close to the original novel as i can and keep it with my own characters, not an easy task, but im managing alright. Its also the best animation ive done with alot of the special effects done frame by frame.

[ArmoredTrackLayer]

LOL as close to faithful as you can be with Nimbin involved anywho.

[Anthony]

The web page for this should be up soon. Its not a full webpage just a subpage off Eveofthewarcom. Just getting my peers to set up a new flash video area so these animated episodes can be added.

I saw a bit of the opening sequences to these wotw comedy's and they look pretty dam cool and funny.

[Gerkinman]

haha, its kind of exciting having my stuff somewhere other then Newgrounds or Deviantart

[ArtillerymanSpain]

The truth, it´s that this project will be something very big... Congratulation

[Gerkinman]

the lowest budget of all the WotW films, and it will still have better sepcial effects then Pendragons movie

[ArmoredTrackLayer]

or at least better acting
;D

[nervouspete]

Hurrah!

Best of luck on your endeavour, Gerkinman! I enjoyed your Nimbin stuff, though my awful speakers made something of a hash of some of the dialogue. Entertaining stuff though, especially the mushrooms one. As for your TWOTW teaser, I liked, even though it showed very little.

I forgot how camply catchy Mr Wayne's stuff is, and your funky smooth cylinder attack looked cool.

Keep it up!

(For however long you can manage before you die of exhaustion amidst bleatings for more)

Pete

[Gerkinman]

thanks man, that old teaser is obsolete now that im doing my own original version rather then the Jeff Wayne version....for legal reasons lol

[nervouspete]

Gerkinman said:

thanks man, that old teaser is obsolete now that im doing my own original version rather then the Jeff Wayne version....for legal reasons lol

Curses!

I was about to post along with that message a ripping joke about Wayne's lawyers descending upon you after they'd spotted the link on this board, but then I realised that I didn't want to jinx things for you, and deleted it.

And now I find that you've already been plagued. Heigh-ho, to be expected. I supposed it is Wayne's rightful perogative. Still wish these big cheeses were a little more generous though.

Pete

[Gerkinman]

i just think its a shame that they see even non profit fan stuff as a threat to there oh so large empire

[twistedrabbit]

Yeah, I'm had a problem with Jeff Wayne's people on my fan game. But they're seeming cool about it. It is their right...and as well it should be, because they're doing their best to plant their foot firmly into the WOTW empire to make sure Speilburg's WOTW doesn't overpower 'em.

[Gerkinman]

With this series i will conquer them both with a little thing i liketo call "us...THE LITTLE PEOPLE"
im in a position where i can really listen to what the fans want, and that will give me an edge none of the corporations have.

[Anthony]

The thing that pisses me off is that these smaller powers in the movie and music business such as Wayne and Pendragon go crazy when you use there music or footage for a fan related non profit project, but the big companies like Paramount, 20th century and Warner dont give a crap.

Pendragon wouldnt allow a fan trailer to their film because they thought people might thinks it the real one they said to me when i put up a fan trailer, even though it had fan trailer written all over it.

[Gerkinman]

Paramount and 20th century fox dont really care at all, a perfect example is how often the Spiderman music is used in general flash cartoons. Its everywhere and nobody cares.

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Good to see another fellow NSW citizen here

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[Gerkinman]

im in Lismore and it sucks

[Herulian Martian]

Gerkinman said:

Hi, my names Daniel, tho im known in the flash animation comunity as Gerkinman. Some of you may have even heard of me. Anyway, ive been working on an animated series based on War of the Worlds for some time now, and animation has recently begun *rest of the time was spent doing scripts and storyboarding* So i thought id show some images from the movie in progress.


Flare on the side of Mars


Our hero descovers the landed Cyclinder,

Now, this movie isnt going to be the serious kinda thing that the other movies in production are. Its a comedy set in there nearby town of Nimbin (Nearby to me that is). After months of research and map studying ive found that the areas in Wells novel ad the areas where i live (Which is in New South Wales in Australia) is not all that different, infact the only real difference is that this area is alot more hilly. Ive set in in the own of nimbin because i already have a series based there, and i thought itd be a good saga for the series.

Heres the 1st 2 episodes in 1 convienient flash movie: www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/212146

So yeh, let me know what you think. ^^

According to the book, the dark red areas must be Martian plants, the orange areas, deserts and the blue-black areas must be the oceans of Mars...right? HG Wells mentioned that oceans only covered 1/3 of mars in his book, so this looks very accurate!