Movie Jam 3: Death Jam

[TomFulp]

Movie Jam 3 is a GO! The theme is "unusual deaths" or Death Jam, since that sounds fun. You can work alone or with a team.

There is a Wikipedia page dedicated to unusual deaths. Pick one of them and animate it!

1) Open with this intro featuring art by JohnnyUtah (FLA / GIF). It's 30fps so adjust accordingly if your movie is different.

2) Fill in the title card with your subject, for example "455 BC: Aeschylus" or "1660: Thomas Urquhart" - you can edit / stylize this part any way you like.

3) Attempt to illustrate a short build up to the death; a set-up and punchline. Don't drag it out where it becomes boring. You can alternatively provide a brief background story as text after your title card if it works better or you are in a time crunch.

Tag your movie with "deathjam", upload it by Sunday at 11:59PM EST and you're PART OF HISTORY!

You can also announce who you are animating in this thread. It's fine if there are repeats but having a list of who is already in play might help people narrow their search. I'm gonna take a stab at Qin Shi Huang.

Question - should we open this up to the Darwin Awards archives as well? Thoughts?

[Magnivez]

I got a question, do we have to use the same people in these unusual deaths or can we just use the concept of how they died?

[bigjonny13]

Oooh, pick me, pick me

Voice actor

[TomFulp]

At 8/15/14 05:11 PM, Magnivez wrote: I got a question, do we have to use the same people in these unusual deaths or can we just use the concept of how they died?

Intent is to use the same people, like a little history lesson but if that feels awkward you could change it up.

[mickthepenguin]

At 8/15/14 05:06 PM, jeffkiller wrote: Hey im first to reply to this topic

Jeff the pooper

[CiviLies]

Hah, this should be good...

[visedgrub]

do you have to animate one off that wiki page, or can you make one up?

[TheRealNat23]

Are you allowed to use more than one death for our movies? If so, do we repeat only the "Date: Name" part for the other deaths?

[Flikkernicht]

Myself, Magnivez, and Bill Premo are going to be working together on 1993: Garry Hoy, I think. We might change it but at this point I'm pretty sure that's the death we'll be doing

[Fantishow]

I got David Gundman.

[GoodBoyEthan]

I hope I can wrap something up by Sunday, but I think I'll be taking a stab at John Wayne Gacy.

[Tenpouin]

Dang, I was going to do Garry Hoy. Oh well, I guess I'll take Aeschylus

[miJmii]

401 BC: Mithridates iz so on (edible insects any1?) a haha:D

[GoodBoyEthan]

Oh, wait. Do they have to come from the list, Tom?

[Listen2Reason]

Trivia: The Mortal Kombat II soundtrack CD (as I recall, you had to send away for it, you couldn't get it in stores), had a track called "Death Jam". It was a techno track with a bunch of sound effects from the game put in to go with the music.

[GunboyIsAwesome]

I call 1926: Harry Houdini!

[TheRealNat23]

BTW, my first one is João Maria de Souza.

[NothingStudios]

i'm going to try and do 2009: Taylor Mitchell. I hope I succeed

[GoodBoyEthan]

If they have to be from the list I think Im going to take a shot at Boris Sagal

[AntonM]

I'm going to try 1927: Isadora Duncan :D

[yetanotherjohn]

I call Adolf Frederick!

[visedgrub]

im going to try 1979: Robert Williams

[GunboyIsAwesome]

At 8/15/14 06:48 PM, GunboyIsAwesome wrote:

I call 1926: Harry Houdini!

Actually I think I change my mind, I'm gonna go with Clement Vallandighim.

[OddKazz]

Hard to choose between João Maria de Souza and Oscar Otero Aguilar dear god.

[yetanotherjohn]

At 8/15/14 07:27 PM, yetanotherjohn wrote: I call Adolf Frederick!

I guess I should specify, he died in 1771.

[HeroPower]

Oh I can see this turning out incredible haha Can't wait to see what you artist produce for this!

[Tenpouin]

At 8/15/14 06:29 PM, Tenpouin wrote: Dang, I was going to do Garry Hoy. Oh well, I guess I'll take Aeschylus

I guess I should say the date as well? 455 BC Aeschylus

[Gianni]

I'd totally love to do some voice work for the DEATH JAM.

[Narwelch]

Oh, man. I really want to do this. Of course I have to work all weekend. I think I'll try to get it done even though I might have to sacrifice quality.

[Narwelch]

So are the Darwin Awards archive an option as well?