User:JasonCarswell/Idea bank

2D Animation Job Placement

Animation project ideas

• 15 Minute Ghettos
  • Short stick figure animations about the myriad of "solution" problems with 15 Minute Cities.

• LeverMind animated show opening title, reused as outro credits.
  • Music already prepared.

• Promotional animations (intros/outros, "live" logos, memes, network bugs, titles/credits, etc.) for various individuals and groups about Windsor.

• • Audio production
    • Audio Den Studios, Windsor?
    • --- Audio (WMC board member), Windsor

• • Charities
    • 15 Minute Cities, website
    • Druthers, Canadian newspaper
    • Harvest Church, Windsor
    • Maple Fringe, website
    • Maple Fringe Majority, TV series
    • Optimists Club, Windsor
    • Parents For Parents' Rights
    • Protect Freedom!, global
    • The Gathering Church, Windsor
    • True North Grit, Windsor newspaper
    • TruthSeekers, website
    • Tube.4AEM.com, website
    • Vigilant Beaver, Windsor newspaper
    • Volun.Tube, website
    • WE Protect Freedom!, Windsor group
    • WEFringe, email groups

• • Windsor Facebookers, Podcasts, and YouTubers
    • Bad Boy D
    • Free Flow With Coco
    • Freedom For Journalists
    • Gary White
    • PlugNPlay Productions
    • The Truth Trumpet

• • Windsor production studios
    • Clear Rock Studios
    • Gavin Michael Booth
    • Giraffe Ideas Creative Studios
      • Developing productions include: Bittersweet Seeds, Deerhurst, LeverMind, Long Black Veil, Mass Awakening, Pintle And Gudgeon, Santa Libertas, The Rendezvous, Trudeau's Bag Man, Wistful in Windsor, and others.
      • Glossed And Profound Creative Studios
    • Riggi Media International

The latest Santa Libertas logo.

• Santa Libertas
  • Animated Santa with sack walking, morphs into Santa Libertas ball, writing into Santa Libertas logo.
  • Santa Libertas ball wipe on + wipe off.
  • Santa Libertas network bug.

Potential video production fields

• 2D production
• 3D production
• Character animation
• Commercials (and public service announcements)
• Documentaries
• Event videos (festivals, protests, weddings, etc.)
• Feature films
• Gaming
• Imagery
  • Photography
• Industrial videos
• Memes
• Music videos
  • Audio engineering
  • Audio production
• Podcasts (audio/radio/video)
• Shorts
• Visual poetry (art films)
• Web ads
• Web design
• Web site clients

Character ideas

Panda Mic

Format:

• Very short skits.

How?

• Animated? / rotoscoped? / panda suit?

Note:

• Panda character designs by Jason Carswell.

Purpose:

• To make people ask questions.
• To make people aware.
• To promote critical thinking.
• To raise critical issues.

Scenarios:

• Complains about full email box.
• Complains about changing definition of "pandemic".
• Complains about giving pandas a bad name.
• Like a panda, start calm, peaceful, then surprise viewers with the Brooklyn tough guy accent.
  • Could start with a Chinese accent, then cough out a bamboo stick, then surprise viewers with the Brooklyn tough guy accent.
• Setting: bamboo patch? Somewhere else unexpected?

Who?

• Panda Mic actor to be determined.

Santa Libertas

The latest Santa Libertas logo.

Format:

• Short videos.

Purpose:

• To make people ask questions.
• To make people aware.
• To promote alternatives, autonomy, do-ocracy, responsibility, self-reliance, solutions, etc.
• To promote critical thinking.
• To raise critical issues.

Scenario:

• Santa Libertas rants from his North Pole home, or other settings occasionally.

Who?

• Jason Carswell as Santa Libertas

Swami Skeptic

Format:

• Very short skits.

How?

• Greenscreen mountain cave and vistas.

Maybe:

• Might be worth animating? In the future? With other voice talent.

Purpose:

• To be segues injected between longer LeverMind content, related or not.
• To fill spare time in LeverMind videos.
• To make people ask questions.
• To make people aware.
• To post on TicTok and/or YouTube Shorts.

Scenario:

• "Truth-seekers" climb the mountain to ask the Skeptic Swami questions.

He answers with insightful humour, but always deadpan while meditating.

Examples:

• Person climbs mountain to swami, "Whew, that was tiring and made me hungry. I sure could go for a burger but I came seek your truth." Response, "Make me one with everything."
• Person, "I don't have money to fix the world." Response, "Change comes from within."
• Person, "How can we resist corruption and tyranny?" Response, "Always to be good."
• Person, "I try different approaches without success, but really must." Response, "Try, try again."

Who?

• Guest "truth-seekers".
• Jason Carswell as Swami Skeptic, wise man who lives in a cave on a mountain.

Screenplay ideas

Meant to be feature-length movies, but could be adapted to be television series.