When I first starting doing dios, I just shot pics w/ a loose story and made up the stuff as I went frame to frame. I still do that to an extent. I make a few notes here and there so I can remember some 'major' things I want to do but I do NOT write a whole story and storyboard and whatnot. I would say about 80-90% of the story is in my head.

Now... I do sit on msn msgr and talk to a few people about things and I bounce ideas off several people. I also show a select few what I'm up to to get a bit of feedback. It helps to have a circle (or clique, if you must). I tend to bounce my 3.75" and S6 ideas off of Shane and Kevin the most. Sephron13 and Justin get my S6-only ideas while TG will hear only about my 3.75".

Afterall, Shane's the one who came up with the name of Shadow Walker for an S6 character.


Also, I tend to watch the same old movies over and over. Something like Doom and Aliens not only get the creative juices flowing and the mood, but I'll watch certain sequences to see how they do things. Like the S6 dio will have a huge outdoor battle AND an aerial dogfight. I've been watching the beginning of SW3 for a lot of ideas.