My mind is blank!

[micky315]

I cant think of an idea to animate! How do you guys think of stuff!?

[ASneakyRussian]

Animate a style you saw in another flash movie like madness.

or you could stop trying to animate and jack off for a while :p

[micky315]

i need a story, not a style!

[matrix5565]

I didn't want to share this idea with anyone... but you seem apt enough.

The story begins with Joe, an underdog with strong moral values. His girlfriend gets pissed off at him for no reason and is kidnapped by Steve, a person with no goal other than that of making the world worse and an army of mindless minions to back him up. In the final, climatic battle between them Joe defeats Steve. Joe and his girlfriend are reunited at last :) The end :D

It's so emotional :')

[Sunrie]

At 5/18/09 07:40 PM, micky315 wrote: I cant think of an idea to animate! How do you guys think of stuff!?

Sometimes it just comes to me. Other times, Wyldfyre1 and I have random conversations which leads to ideas.

[DooDooMeaT]

Make a cartoon about a guy who can't think of an idea for a cartoon....

[micky315]

At 5/18/09 08:16 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: Make a cartoon about a guy who can't think of an idea for a cartoon....

i like it....... gimme some more people!

[fusioner]

four words: vampire werewolf zombie kittys.

[micky315]

At 5/18/09 08:29 PM, fusioner wrote: four words: vampire werewolf zombie kittys.

If i was drunk, maybe.....

[gravibunny]

OH OH...I'm i writer and being an assistent with you may be a good start for me....i sound bad...

[Esshole]

Three things:

1: I'm a writer, so things come to me.
2: Music can help sometimes.
3: This is the BIGGIE . . . insanity!

[Esshole]

Just thought of something!

Three presidents under one roof; George Bush, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.

How's that bite you?

[micky315]

At 5/18/09 09:56 PM, Esshole wrote: Just thought of something!

Three presidents under one roof; George Bush, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon.

How's that bite you?

not well, try something else. gravibunny. show me wat you got!

[Esshole]

Well you could always go with that one guy on some dude trying to make a flash. His cartoon turns on him and begins to mess with the flash tools on the author.

[gravibunny]

ok 2 things

one a seires of shorts of a boy and a girl teaching people the proper mannerism on the interwebz...the boy is your average...yell at them about there momma guy...and the girl is the calm person who could care less...but they are both really mean...

anouther is just about 2 idiots trying to make a Flash animation going through alot of ideas along the way (also could be put into diffrent parts)

[micky315]

one a seires of shorts of a boy and a girl teaching people the proper mannerism on the interwebz...the boy is your average...yell at them about there momma guy...and the girl is the calm person who could care less...but they are both really mean...

no, not really liking that...

anouther is just about 2 idiots trying to make a Flash animation going through alot of ideas along the way (also could be put into diffrent parts)

This idea has already been mentioned by someone else

[zenyara]

I have had this recurring dream where Velociraptors are let loose on the public and I keep getting eaten by them. It's a very vivid dream and downright scary.

Maybe a story there?

[micky315]

At 5/19/09 08:55 AM, zenyara wrote: I have had this recurring dream where Velociraptors are let loose on the public and I keep getting eaten by them. It's a very vivid dream and downright scary.

Maybe a story there?

if i can make it funny...

[nathanielmilburn]

try drugs

[LenardNotLenny]

At 5/19/09 09:02 AM, nathanielmilburn wrote: try drugs

that always works

[Paranoia]

At 5/19/09 09:02 AM, nathanielmilburn wrote: try drugs

The most useful post of the thread :P

[Dark-Spark]

go inspiration hunting, there's lots of foreign animation and music out there

[Alpharius120]

At 5/19/09 02:28 PM, Dark-Spark wrote: go inspiration hunting

Using drugs?

[micky315]

At 5/19/09 04:06 PM, Alpharius120 wrote:

At 5/19/09 02:28 PM, Dark-Spark wrote: go inspiration hunting

Using drugs?

lolz but cmon srcly enough with the drugs

[gravibunny]

ok i played your game lil blue and it gave me an idea...its a game about this little blue ball trying to get frined (a little pink ball) back from a bird..and it can be a simple 2d platformer with puzzles, and here is the little twist
there will be 3 diffrent little mittens all around the levels that give him diffrent powers and he can only have one at a time

and he has to use the varrious powers and to solve diffrent puzzles

[EternalXIII]

At 5/19/09 04:29 PM, micky315 wrote:

At 5/19/09 04:06 PM, Alpharius120 wrote:

At 5/19/09 02:28 PM, Dark-Spark wrote: go inspiration hunting

Using drugs?

lolz but cmon srcly enough with the drugs

Mushrooms... That'll do the trick!, or a couple peyote buttons...

j/k

The best way to think of a project is to take your mind as far away from it as you possibly can. For me at least, one of the problems I have is that; even though I have ideas in my head, none of them seem interesting or fresh. After a good break (play a video game, draw, read, etc...) I can rethink everything and sometimes I find some of my best ideas were the ones I wasn't feeling at that moment.

Another thing you can do is brainstorm. Sometimes it helps to have people's insights (Kinda like this) but you need to be able to have your own ideas and thoughts as well. One problem with a thread like this is that everyone has their own methodology and habits when it comes to the creative process.

You say you need a story. Isn't that the best part about being an animator, seeing your own ideas and stories coming to life. I'm really new to the whole animating thing. I've been uploading audio for a while now, but I decided to test the waters of animation. I just put my first flash up a day ago xp. The project is really ambitious (especially considering it's my fist). http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/49 5899 Writing the story has been the hardest part. Even though I've written stories before, it was easier for me to learn how to and animate the teaser.

If your having trouble think of a story... Just relax, one will come.

[micky315]

At 5/19/09 05:26 PM, gravibunny wrote: ok i played your game lil blue and it gave me an idea...its a game about this little blue ball trying to get frined (a little pink ball) back from a bird..and it can be a simple 2d platformer with puzzles, and here is the little twist
there will be 3 diffrent little mittens all around the levels that give him diffrent powers and he can only have one at a time

and he has to use the varrious powers and to solve diffrent puzzles

.......... I love it! Very good storyboard! im getting to work right away and you will be credited!

[toxicdevil93]

How about you make a guy post on the BBS and be all IDEAS PLZ instead of getting their ass up and think?

[DawnOfDusk]

At 5/18/09 08:16 PM, DooDooMeaT wrote: Make a cartoon about a guy who can't think of an idea for a cartoon....

Or you could have a blank screen, where a man keeps forming out of the white, but then another layer of "blank" goes overtop it, almost like the idea is trying to find you, while you block it out... something abstract... I dunno

[StupidLeprichaun]

At 5/18/09 07:40 PM, micky315 wrote: I cant think of an idea to animate! How do you guys think of stuff!?

I find the best way to think of flash movies is to relate the movies to current events that people can relate too.