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[FUS News Robot]

I have had a few proposals over time about making Sea3on into a animated movie or series.  All of these I have of course turned down.  Mostly because as a website we don't have the time or expertise on hand to do such a task.  Ive got my staff quite busy with just Sea3on, and the SatAM game that is in production.  After that we start stretching ourself s out too far.

Not to mention the time and talent it would take to animate something.  Hell even a 8 minute animation would take a small group of people and a huge chunk of time to animate.

So the other day I got another email from someone saying "Hey, lets make a Sea3on series!".  And even though this email was thought out a bit more then the others I have gotten over time.. I still did my "Yeahhh..No" response.  Cause I'm nice that way.

But the following day I recieved  another email from the gentleman in question..Which actually peaked my interest up enough to bring all of this foreword to my Sea3on staff, as well as Bakuda and RedAuthar.    Together we looked over some stuff, talked it out, and decided..What the hell.  Might as well give this guy a chance to explain himself further.  I mean really, all I would be doing is wasting a few minutes over skype at the worst..   So I called Matt into a meeting (you can check out his facebook page here actually https://www.facebook.com/pages/Classic-Sonic-the-Hedgehog/102023493218132?fref=ts ) and with Bakuda by my side we basically went over a few things.

I thin over all the meeting lasted around 40 minutes or so..Which was a lot longer then what I was originally planning on doing.  But the reason for that is because I had to actually start putting some serious thought into the proposal he was putting forth.

Over all I think the meeting went good.  There were a few demands that I made in the interest of FUS before I give any final say on the matter.    Such as I want to see the first script and animation story board before I give the final "yeah okay go for it".  But at this moment from certain things I have seen from past work..It looks pretty good.  Would make a interesting small fan project.

 

One of the interesting things that made me think "Pretty good.." is one of the producers behind this, as well as a (probable) voice actor. Sally Test

 

So anyways, be sure to check out the Facebook Page  this started at.  Especially if you wish to give it any support.

 

As well stay tuned for a announcement in probably the near-ish future about whether not the site will be fully supporting and going forth on this.    But be sure to toss down your support for this if you would like a animated Sea3on series.

[Uncle Ben]

It would be interesting to say the least

Now would it be posted here or will there be a link for it??

[ZanetheWolf]

DUDE YES.

I think it'd be cool to see this. I wonder what SEGA would think of it....

Of course, that doesn't matter.

[chief]

If something did happen with this I would just be creating a page with the youtube streams. Save my servers bandwidth.

[Uncle Ben]

That works.

Now i assume this is still really early in the planning stages??

[ILOVEVHS]

Sea3on animated???

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[Teirusu]

Sounds interesting but won't be easy of course. Unless We have experts, It will take a looot of time in my opinion.

[chief]

We haven't even agreed to do this yet. Not fully at least. But yeah, it is early in the planning stages still. As I'm waiting for a script, plus story board before I commit to anything.

Basically this page https://www.facebook...ated?ref=stream And this page https://www.facebook...3218132?fref=ts Have all the info on what Matt and his group are trying to do.

I'm just advertising a bit for them. As the more support they get and the more word gets out the better it could be..As well as the bigger chance of me giving it the final go ahead. I would like to see it happen but this isn't going to be some junk release. Thats why I'm waiting on a few things first.

So basically the more people support him and his group behind this the better chance it will have.

[Uncle Ben]

The fact they are asking people for voices makes me wanna do this but with my crazy college schedule i wouldnt be able to do much.

I'll spread the word to generate interest

[DLTN]

Sounds interesting...

[Matt]

Hey guys, I'm Matt, the Director of the Sea3on Animated Web Series. If you got any questions, just direct them over to me, and I'll answer whatever I can.

[Teirusu]

First of all, Welcome! and nice initiative, hope you can do the animated series without problems ^^

[Lito290]

Alright then, what voice talent will you be needing? Voice bits can literally take me a couple moments to put out, and this seems like a very promising project! I can do Shadow and Big the Cat relatively well, the rest you would have to judge

[Uncle Ben]

I would throw my hat in for voicing... but i think college would get in my way

[Lito290]

You just talk into a microphone for 5 - 10 minutes saying lines in different ways... how much would college get in your way?

[Captain Sorzo]

My thoughts on this are rather mixed, to be honest. On the one hand, I absolutely adore Sea3on. Despite being in a different medium, it perfectly captures the feel of SatAM while actually improving the overall writing quality. I don't consider it fanfiction, but the definitive continuation of the series. The comic deserves to be far better known than it is, and I'm all for it expanding in different ways, provided there's not an impact on quality.

But then, that's the catch, isn't it? Quality. As it is, the comic generally manages to be on level with or better than the original animated series in terms of art and writing, no small feat to put it mildly (especially considering that the official Sonic comic series staffed by professionals rarely manages to achieve either). But while art and writing are fairly interchangeable, voice acting is much more reliant on specfic individuals that simply cannot be replaced. Much of the acting in SatAM was outstanding, and imitations, especially amateur ones, almost certainly cannot live up to it, sadly. Kath Soucie and Jim Cummings in particular provided some of my favorite performances in any medium, and the very notion of replacing them strikes me as absurd.

These concerns aren't targeted at Matt and his team directly, mind you. I certainly mean no offense and wish you the best of luck in this undertaking. The voice actor problem is one I've considered many times before, and it's the primary reason why I never seriously entertained the notion of Sea3on ever being more than a webcomic.

[Hammer]

You just talk into a microphone for 5 - 10 minutes saying lines in different ways... how much would college get in your way?

Believe me, it's not THAT easy. I've done some amateur voice acting and it takes a longer time to get a good result, even more if someone is directing you. It took me 30-45 minutes to speak four or five lines trying to imitate Harry Potter a few months ago.

I wouldn't mind trying a voice. However, since any of the neutral-speaking characters would mean having to polish my accent a lot, I think I'd go for Antoine. My French accent is not so bad

So yeah, I'll try Antoine whenever I get some free time to try it.

[Lito290]

Believe me, it's not THAT easy. I've done some amateur voice acting and it takes a longer time to get a good result, even more if someone is directing you. It took me 30-45 minutes to speak four or five lines trying to imitate Harry Potter a few months ago.

That's the initial push, after you have the voice down, it takes a substantially smaller ammount of time. Considering how this is going to be a series, once the voice is "mastered" we should be able to pop those things out like jaffa cakes.

[Uncle Ben]

Now i got a question too. If the Web series goes up will the comic still run??

[Robthe1st]

All I can say is... good luck with the project You're going to need it.

As long if it doesn't look like Richard Kuta's Sonic project:

I'm sure you guys will make better animation then his