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Socoder -> Question of the Day -> QOTD : Longer Life |
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| Sun, 08 Feb 2009, 04:11 | |
Jayenkai
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As I'm sitting here, watching a Popeye DVD set, it makes me realise how short a lifespan things seem to have these days. Sure, there's some rubbish in the Popeye's, but for the most part, they're good classic cartoon fun. Then you look at something from recent years, and it's already starting to look old. What's with that!? QOTD : What do you think makes one tv show/film/cartoon/game/book/music/whatever age better than another? What are the tricks to making a long lasting project? -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Sun, 08 Feb 2009, 07:54 | |
Afr0
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I think the major factor is innovation, actually. Take Pixar. Every single movie of theirs has been a huge success. Toy Story was the first 3D feature. Monster's Inc was the first feature to use tons and tons of hair on a 3D character. The Incredibles was the first 3D feature to have all human lead characters. Wall-E was the first movie (at least since the silent film era, but I'm not sure that counts) to have a movie that was mostly driven by the characters' movement rather than what they were saying. That said, I think that another reason for Pixar's success and the reason you can watch alot of those movies over and over again is because they didn't have any fairytale stories to base their movies on, because Disney had used most of them. And they consciously chose not to go down that route. So they had to learn themselves the art of storycreation and storytelling from scratch, and by now they seem to have become pretty good at it. -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!
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| Sun, 08 Feb 2009, 10:01 | |
shroom_monk
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I think stuff has a shorter lifespan now because people seem to have shorter attention spans. Just about all children's TV now seems to have degenerated into rubbish, and few shows ever seem to last multiple series. With so many different channels and shows now, people have learnt to just go and find something new when the old stuff becomes boring. The types of TV programmes available now have changed to fit with the how the audience now is, but to an extent is shaping them further away to want something new to come along more quickly. So, in short, unless you have something suited to a wide audience, I think most TV shows and cartoons can't really last more than one or two series. With video games, things are little different... you tend to get quite a lot of video game series now, presumably because quite a lot of games now have a large focus on story-line, so cannot fit everything into one game. Also, with games, if people like a style of gameplay, they might want more of it, only with a few extra features or tweaks. This makes it quite easy to produce a series once you have the first game done, because a lot can be reused. The secret to a long-lasting series? The hard part is coming up with something new, original, but interesting to a wide audience. So long as you make it versatile and flexible, it gives you a lot of oppurtunities to expand it later. -=-=- A mushroom a day keeps the doctor away... Keep It Simple, Shroom! |
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