Looks interesting. Some of my thoughts
- Since this is a DOA project have it only include DOA characters. No cameos or original characters.
- Keep the characters speaking in either only Japanese or English unless they have officially been shown to consistently speak another language in canon. These characters are already established.
- Treat all the characters fairly. That includes characters like Marie, Honoka, and Nico. They are official characters whether people like them or not.
- Which audience are you targeting specifically? Your art style might not appeal to certain groups of people. For example, you're thinking about going to TN with this but the art style doesn't resemble anything they make. Your art is very western/ cartoony. This will play a major role in generating attention. In a recent interview for Ghost of Tsushima, it stated the game would have never gotten a green light if it was pitched to people in Japan because Jin was not handsome. He had a more rugged look which is not popular in Japan. Western and eastern design philosophies are different. Western and eastern art styles are different.
- The art style already looks too western which will turn some people off. If this was an entirely new creation it would be fine but this is DOA. People already have an image of what DOA looks like and you made something completely eastern look more western.
- Have you thought about a piece or scene you want to use to showcase your project? Will it be action heavy? Will it be scenic? I think a serious fight scene with the ninjas will grab people's attention. They are the most well known characters and it will show off your skills in fluid animation and scene composition. Who doesn't like a well animated choreographed fight scene?
That said, DOA definitely needs more fan content. I've seen numerous times where people who know nothing about a game see fan art and get interested. And I don't think approaching KT or TN is a good idea. It's better to stay as a fan project. Companies are not friends.
first of all thank you for taking your personal time to write me this message, I'm delighted to have your point of view. now let's get a few things clear, it's a project made by a fan (hopefully in the plural) for the fans. I will now respond to each of the points raised.
► There will be DOA characters, cameos belonging to the universe as well as secondary characters serving the story. Including exclusively ONLY the characters in the games will considerably impoverish the story, that's what gives a bad production in terms of adaptation most of the time.
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I don't agree with that at all, I agree with the fact that most of the characters are mysteriously fluent in Japanese, it makes sense that almost all of them speak English BUT if for example Lei fang goes back to China it would make much more sense to have a Chinese dubbing in that case no matter what, I think it would deepen the characters a lot. Same case with Helena in France and Hitomi in Germany...
► Who do you think I am? lol every character will be treated fairly !
► What a nice roundabout way to say that my art is ugly lol. The artistic direction was carefully chosen, I absolutely did not want to go towards an anime style and deliberately aim for a more western look linked to a lot of Japanese animation principles in order to have a meticulous result.
Itagaki himself likes this artistic direction very much ! I'm not afraid of not pleasing a Japanese public or a public believing that only anime exists, I draw my inspiration from works such as Katsuji Morishita 's work, french comics / anime LAST MAN or the last airbender .
► as said above I know what I'm doing
► Lol I have the impression that you think I didn't think about anything, it's as much fun as it is offensive to be honest. I've already finished a fight scene (not with the ninjas, I don't intend to put the ninjas in the middle of the story anyway, nor anyone else to tell the truth lol). But yes if you had followed the twitter you would have seen that the principles of the project will be based on an interesting story, well twisted, relating perfectly doa4 to doa5, fights referenced in terms of martial arts, a soupçon of fan service and humor.
SO I've been playing doa for 20 years now, I've been able to approach the team several times, I've won two costume contests, I've done a lot of tournaments, I THINK I'm legitimate to manage this project. I would like to present them the pilot once it will be done to at least have the copyright and launch a kick starter and be able to be remunerated for this project because of course I imagine that most of you do not realize the amount of work that represents the animation ^^'.
