Yes, any full list of influences that a person like me could bring into one’s dream passion project (and one’s intended great epic masterpiece) may as well seem very endless, but it will be at least fair to say that I might piece together a massively grand earth shattering animated cartoon epic from a pretty mighty library of diverse elements, characters, etc., for there may be dinosaurs and/or warriors like the Samurai of Japan in there as well as western elements and superhero comic book elements as well as the tales of Robin Hood and elements and/or characters that will come straight from old episodes from Cartoon Network’s older cartoon shows from its past like Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack as well as The Powerpuff Girls, and from further afield J.R.R. Tolkien’s massive three volume epic The Lord of the Rings might as well provide part of the epic narrative sweep or so.
But I have to warned you all that I may as well struggle to bring all these elements, etc., together into a coherent story-line, for my vision may as well be too big for one single animated movie or two or even three! As my dream passion project and intended great epic masterpiece of animation unfolds, for example, one might as well see such as a great epic tale that could take at least a series or mega-series of movies or something like that to tell the whole thing, and/or, in making his or her way through the history, the back story and the personal dossiers on all these things, as well as the after story or flash forwards, one can really start in the middle of such a history or saga, or at least representing the story proper.
Indeed, This dream passion project and intended great epic masterpiece of mine may have not just gun shootouts or battles involving superheroes like the Powerpuff Girls, but also bow and arrow battles and sword fights, though it combatants, or even some of them, will leap and plunge between earth and sky and overwhelming the villain or Dark Lord’s war/death machines or whatever in the gripping climactic battle.
And the images for my dream passion project and intended great epic masterpiece thingy–be it realistically or lavishly lush like a Disney animated movie, very stylized like a UPA cartoon from the 1950s or any old episode from Dexter’s Lab, Powerpuff Girls or Samurai Jack, or be it a combination of both–will be a complete distillation of all the dreams that all kinds of novelists (including pulp or epic novelists), book-and-album-etc. illustrators, comic strip artists, animators/animation artists and especially game designers would ever dream of, even if it will employ mainly traditional 2D and mainly hand drawn cel animation, some digital ink and paint animation scenes, and some CGI elements, all to be probably enhanced by the same Ultra Panavision 70mm anamorphic widescreen process famously used for the 1959 Ben Hur movie (specifically the legendary chariot race scene, which is everyone’s all time favorite Ben Hur scene ever!) and for Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight movie last year in recent times, which may create certain difficulties such as the need to create different kind of extra-wider stagings for small number of characters and the need for extra longer animation backgrounds and animation production cels to fit Ultra Panavision’s 2.76:1 aspect ratio format, although the extra wider Ultra Panavision 2.76:1 frames may allow for an even more detailed and more mythic epic David Lean-nish approach to the animation design.
But I’d rather if all my passion for all the source materials (especially the ones I referenced) from which I may piece together my dream passion project/intended great epic masterpiece thingy would be clear and the ideas (brilliant or not) be solid for any new story or whatever set within such worlds (especially the ones I referenced).
Just saying…
Or would it?
