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Wiki for my animated series, Elements Beyond

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What is Elements Beyond?


Elements Beyond will be an indie animated cartoon, with the plot primarily revolving around a group of (highschoolers? College students?) living on campus in a world where everyone has elemental abilities (known as “Eleteni”) they can grow, train, and foster.


The world works kinda like an RPG video game, as in the characters have stats, levels, and other cool crap like that, and if a character “dies”, they respawn, except under certain circumstances/causes of death.


The main antagonist, Basalt, Formed disaster millions of years ago, almost wiping out reality. He was imprisoned in stone as his punishment.

He has since awakened, and grown a giant criminal organization to try and gain the strength to reach earth’s core, to which he’ll be able to have ANY power he desires.


Naturally, the students get involved, and their training team, consisting of the athletic Eruptia, the wild Shiso, The studios Kanna, the famous influencer Monarch, and the ruthless Blizz, all must set aside their differences and fight back against the villains, but this will fold out in a way that is anything but normal…


Wiki pages as of now:


elementsbeyond.miraheze.org/wiki/Eruptia


elementsbeyond.miraheze.org/wiki/Blizz

Response to Wiki for my animated series, Elements Beyond 2025-02-04 09:57:47


... Am I doing something wrong?

Response to Wiki for my animated series, Elements Beyond 2025-02-04 12:27:02


At 2/4/25 09:57 AM, Galactidot wrote:... Am I doing something wrong?

Organizing your lore into wikis and google docs is a good idea, but you can't really use them to drive engagement until you actually release something. A wiki is supplementary material so you will have to pump a few episodes of your cartoon out before people will have any interest in reading it. You wouldn't release an art book before your first episode for the same reason, unless you already have a huge social media following.


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At 2/4/25 12:27 PM, kmau wrote:
At 2/4/25 09:57 AM, Galactidot wrote:... Am I doing something wrong?
Organizing your lore into wikis and google docs is a good idea, but you can't really use them to drive engagement until you actually release something. A wiki is supplementary material so you will have to pump a few episodes of your cartoon out before people will have any interest in reading it. You wouldn't release an art book before your first episode for the same reason, unless you already have a huge social media following.


You've got a point there, I'm thinking I should find animators or start with a comic to start things off...


I'm currently working on designing the settings for the show, and after that... I don't know exactly where to go, not gonna lie. Planning to run a Kickstarter, but I'll need something to show, like a short pilot revolving around orientation at the school. But I can't animate it all on my own considering it'll be hand-drawn.


As such, I'm at a loss 💀

Response to Wiki for my animated series, Elements Beyond 2025-02-04 12:49:43


At 2/4/25 12:32 PM, Galactidot wrote:You've got a point there, I'm thinking I should find animators or start with a comic to start things off...

Doing a comic is a good way to ease yourself into storyboarding, writing and directing!


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At 2/4/25 12:49 PM, kmau wrote:
At 2/4/25 12:32 PM, Galactidot wrote:You've got a point there, I'm thinking I should find animators or start with a comic to start things off...
Doing a comic is a good way to ease yourself into storyboarding, writing and directing!


A comic prequel would go hard actually...


That could also rise engagement! Albeit, I want to make sure it does become an animated series, so I'm thinking a prequel comic issue(?)


At 2/4/25 01:02 PM, Galactidot wrote:
At 2/4/25 12:49 PM, kmau wrote:
At 2/4/25 12:32 PM, Galactidot wrote:You've got a point there, I'm thinking I should find animators or start with a comic to start things off...
Doing a comic is a good way to ease yourself into storyboarding, writing and directing!

A comic prequel would go hard actually...

That could also rise engagement! Albeit, I want to make sure it does become an animated series, so I'm thinking a prequel comic issue(?)


(But again, I was planning to use storyboards instead of scripts as is, unsure whether I should go comic now and risk being too late to hop in on indie animation, especially since I'm currently looking for ways to get known and get help in order to start making the animated pilot...)

Response to Wiki for my animated series, Elements Beyond 2025-02-04 18:18:42


This is an interesting concept and I'd love to see what you do with it!


At 2/4/25 12:49 PM, kmau wrote:
At 2/4/25 12:32 PM, Galactidot wrote:You've got a point there, I'm thinking I should find animators or start with a comic to start things off...
Doing a comic is a good way to ease yourself into storyboarding, writing and directing!


Guess who's back with a finished (uninked draft?) copy?


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjzvCpIhmRqAbaT0iQqvDUlaetiOViUU/view?usp=sharing


This is equivalent to the first 2 episodes. Enjoy! Hope the pencil marks aren't too smudged anywhere, tell me if it is...


To be completely honest, this is the first one that I made all the way back in the Summer of this year. I've made like 14 of these since then, this being my most recent in-progress one:


https://drive.google.com/file/d/12qJpadHlMbq4fa3EcTb8WIbZ2ElpOQFb/view?usp=sharing


I'll admit, I'm a little scared about the digitizing and inking steps. Does anyone know how to do that?

(And this is assuming I don't just focus on getting a team for animation first)


So I'd like to know, after you give it a read, should I ink it, or use it as a storyboard first?


But in general, yeah, we're going strong I think~