Dylan Kilgour: Script consultant and screenwriter in Vancouver, Canada.

I can't draw, but love animation. So I've been working with EbSynth to animate over video, and am quite happy with the results. Anyone else using this tech

I made a little animated film just in time for Christmas. It's about a woman who discovers the time travelling clock Santa uses to deliver the worlds presents in just one night, hijacks it, and ends up on a Christmas Carol adventure.

I had this movie idea for a zombie film based on the 1970's movie The Bad News Bears. It's something I could never make, but I really like. So I made this little video of me telling the story just to get it out of my head. Please check it out.

Here's a little video I made about what happens to Hawkeye after Endgame

All the footage of the narrator is this video was first shot as live action then rotoscoped with the AI tool Ebsynth. I realize some of you in this community might never have seen this in action to it's full extent so here's a longer video showing what it can do. Again the whole video is edited on the free software Davinci Resolve, and the still images are rendered using the AI paint programs "Go Art" and "Vector Q"

There is more and more options online for high quality picture to art software, and when mixed with rotoscoping it allows for some cool effects

How do you do it? And by it, I mean find time to write?? During quarantine and then self imposed quarantine writing was my life, my priority and something I found so easy to do. In the year or so since being back in the real world it has become nearly impossible, to not only make/ find time, but to have enough bandwidth within my own thoughts and creativity to sit and write and be creative. I know there are many people struggling with this out there. If anyone has a method that works or even some tips, I would really love to hear it. I miss having that time in my life and feeling the confidence writing gives me. I know what I have to do, just don’t know how to get there. Thank you! AA

One of the hardest issue to solve in a believable way is that of English speaking space aliens... How could they know English or any other Earth language if they come from a different galaxy?

How can they talk to human characters in a story?(Think Stargate SG-1)... I don't know any other solution except using the "rule" that in a movie, everyone speaks the same language of its makers(eg: English for Hollywood).

In terms of arriving at a story premise (which seldom if ever comes to me ready-made), I tend to rely on a method to get the ball rolling: 1. Taking emotional inventory. What am I feeling, going through, or experiencing in life right now? 2. Into what topical category does my state of mind fall? (For example, divorce, parenting, wealth, etc.) 3. What is my current position on or opinion about that topic? (Thesis, theme) 4. In my position/opinion, where is the "what I have" (McKeean description) and the "what I want" (McKeean prescription)? The Segerian "opening thematic image," and the "closing thematic image"? 5. Once I know where I/the protagonist is, versus where he's trying to go, how can I get him there in a cinematically entertaining way? (Plot, premise, hook, concept, what-if) The process always slows down for me when I get to number 5, because that's where the rubber meets the road. I frequently get stuck in analysis paralysis, and writing starts to feel like an academic exercise rather than a creative one. I figure it's because idea-lightning doesn't strike for me very often. And because I'm "left-brained," as the expression goes. Does anyone else use a methodological approach, and if so, do you ever feel that it becomes stifling in some ways and at certain times? (I've heard discussions about outlining versus freewriting that seem to deal with the same issue.)

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