Selling Ideas

# 1 17-12-2002 , 09:49 AM

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O.K. So it's not entirely Maya related - but could be! Anyone care to help me?

I have been working on a project for just over a year now and I have my characters and stories done. Trying to animate the whole story would take me YEARS on my own, so I decided to make it into a comic strip using renders of my models and sets and adding captions.

It's all copyrighted - properly - and now I want to see if I can get any interest from production/publishing companies. I am writing to the BBC and a few book publishers but does anyone out there have any tips or help on who or how to pitch my project?

Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated, I can do the modelling, texturing and animating bit, it's the selling that I haven't got a clue about...

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# 2 17-12-2002 , 06:13 PM

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Re: Selling Ideas

Originally posted by gazzamataz
...it's the selling that I haven't got a clue about...

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Sorry, same here. Would like to get some replies in this thread too...

Good luck anyway gazzamataz...

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# 3 17-12-2002 , 06:39 PM

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Do you have any examples of it anywhere just for people to get an idea of the quality?

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# 4 17-12-2002 , 07:04 PM

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3Dworld magazines have done a few articals on this, might be some use

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# 5 18-12-2002 , 10:07 AM

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I have read the articles in 3D World, it was in four parts issues June, July, August and September 2002 if I remember correctly. The first article was interesting, it basically said that you have gotta keep plugging your ideas and don't give up - it's tough! I personally think that if you believe what you are doing is good then stick at it, which I am.

The other articles talked about going to the next stage of the process writing scripts, working out costs, budgeting and targeting TV companies and producers... All I want is to show the ideas at this stage to see what these people think! This is where I am lost, no point woking out production schedules when you ain't got one in the first place!

Well, I got a few people to write to which I will do over Christmas so I will keep you posted to as to how wonderfully I fail... he, he, he. But you never know! I might even give everyone a sneek preview - but I am too nervous at the moment.

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# 6 18-12-2002 , 03:44 PM

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Well, this might be something similar. When I started writing to get my work published back in the late 80's I had 14 rejections over a period of two years before someone excepted my work...

So....be patient and persistent....you'll get there....

You're going to get frustrated, ticked off, and probably want to give up....don't!!

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# 7 18-12-2002 , 03:49 PM

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For a comic try IMAGE comics.

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# 8 18-12-2002 , 07:53 PM

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I once saw a cartoon in this "selling for dummies"

It was a peanut’s cartoon; half of it was the one peanuts character that was selling lemonade for 25 cents. The other half was a huge building, over 20 stories high that said "free lemonade" heh...

May have nothing to do with this, but it reminded me of it, heh..

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