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http://betaisdead.blogspot.com/2012/01/smcs-companion-piece-20-dexters.html
Check out the comment:
Beta Magnus,
I love Dexter's Laboratory, for it is my favorite TV show and cartoon, while James Cameron's AVATAR is my favorite movie.
Anyway, Beta, I have a dream project for me to pursue, and that dream project of mine is called "The Princess of Shangara", and it is a massive, elaborate, big screen live action/animated cartoon hybrid multi-part epic tale of mythical, legendary and biblical proportions that'll be based on and inspired by characters from my favorite cartoon Dexter's Laboratory, as well as those from the Powerpuff Girls.
Set in a multi-style, multi-cultural fantasy world where dinosaurs still roamed, dragons rule the skies, and a race of mystical god-like beings called 'avatars' shape and keep balance between the realms of flesh, spirit, even nature, for good or ill, The Princess of Shangara will mainly center on and will revolve around Lee Lee, the Asian friend of Dee Dee, Dexter's sister, The Princess of Shangara referred to in the title and in question, and one of the avatars, and who, according to an ancient prophecy, is destined to stop the evil Mandark, Dark Lord of the Avatars, from conquering and enslaving the world.
She is accompanied on her hero's journey by Dexter and Dee Dee, as well as Dee Dee's black friend Mee Mee, as they travel through distant and exotic faraway lands and as they battle the evil forces of Mandark, as well as prehistoric predators such as T-Rexes and Raptors, as well as a Spinosaurus.
To bring the Dexter's Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls characters (or, ‘toona’kâiya’, as they shall be known here) to life on the big screen, even though it's a live action/animation hybrid epic, I'd rather stick to the technique that works best for these characters: 2D traditional hand drawn animation, and in a character design and animation art style that should even hark back to both shows' earlier Genndy Tartakovsky-involved character design and animation art roots.
I also intend to photograph all the live action elements on both 35mm Panavision and 15/70mm IMAX formats, just as in The Dark Knight and Mission Impossible AUTISM 2: GENETIC BOOGALOO, but not in 3-D, though. (The regular non-IMAX scenes should be framed at a 2.35:1 aspect ratio)
As for the music score for it, it should be an epic cinematic music score that should incorporate unusual and exotic, ethnic instrumental and vocal musical sounds from around the world, as well as some electronic synthesizers and computers, into a full traditional orchestral score. If so, every culture encountered in The Princess of Shangara should have its very own musical culture and association.
As for the sound work, I think Skywalker Sound or the like should handle such and even a theatrical 7.1 channel audio mix.
As for a visual effects studio that would composite the 2D traditionally hand drawn animated Dexter's Lab and Powerpuff Girls toona’kâiya characters into a world fabricated mostly from live action background plates, miniatures and/or digital CG environments, I think Peter Jackson's Weta Studios and/or George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic and/or the like should mainly produce the effects that will composite the traditional 2D animated cartoon characters into a world fabricated from such elements.
As for a production company that should handle releasing and distribution duties for it, I would root for Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, or maybe all three studios plus Legendary Pictures or New Regency.
A thousand apologies for typing such a long comment, but, even if every frame and detail has to be perfect, and even if it have to be well thought and with a better and superbly crafted epic script and plot than even cartoons of today or so, The Princess of Shangara is gonna be cool and awesome and great and epic! Or would it?
-Tim
The response:
That certainly sounds epic.
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