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Ideal Diorama stories that never took off.
Old 10-19-2006, 03:54 PM #1
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Lightbulb Ideal Diorama stories that never took off.

Anyone had their moments to make a diosotry, but put it off because of: lack of funds, time, needed figures, limitations on set designs, lack of skills?

Just wondering.

What's your take guys?
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Old 10-19-2006, 11:05 PM #2
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How about "yeah, I'll get around to it one day!"
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Old 10-20-2006, 04:19 AM #3
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Yeah, i think we all have.Actually im in the middle of that one right now. Need other figures and funds to make sets. I get jealous of all the guys with the pics of their Joe rooms with about 20 of every figure.
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Old 10-20-2006, 08:00 AM #4
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Pretty much every dio-story I do starts off a lot more ambitiously than it ends up being...lack of finances, lack of time, etc... all bring it back down a few levels.

Sometimes it's fun to dream, though.

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Old 10-20-2006, 08:30 AM #5
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I'm a man of ideas. Doesn't mean they are GREAT ideas or good ideas or maybe the execution blows. I was working on this big gnarly dio "A Matter of Anti-Matter" and then Luke came out with his and it made me look at dios totally different. That dio fell apart right quick too. Not to mention DOOM showed up and well, my latest 3.75" is the result. Mind you, it took nearly 15 pathetic, lame, unstylistic dios to get there.

For almost a year, I couldn't finish a story. I left them open-ended. I was trying to do short dios (like "Scrap Iron Strikes Back" and "I am Ju-On") but those are just practice. I'm starting the ideas for the next 3.75" and hopefully it will work out.

But yeah, it's like Justin said. Funds play a huge role. My own building skills often limit what I really want to do.
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Old 10-20-2006, 09:30 AM #6
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My problem is time, funds don't really play a big part in my dio stories. I'm working on a dio story now that for almost two years now isn't finished. The problem is just time. Then lack of motivation.
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Old 10-20-2006, 12:08 PM #7
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In the past I've had more ideas than talent. Now I have few ideas and still not much talent. I struggle just get single photos to turn out well sometime. Really, it's the effects, even word balloons that limit me. I'm not buying any new software to make photo cartoons. Making dio stories seems like more work that what I personaly would get out of it. My euthisiasm for the toys and the Joe universe overall is fairly low at the moment.
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Old 10-20-2006, 01:43 PM #8
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My problem is time, funds don't really play a big part in my dio stories. I'm working on a dio story now that for almost two years now isn't finished. The problem is just time. Then lack of motivation.


As BT said. Time and motivation are the keys for me too. My wife and I both work full time, so there is always "something else" that needs to be done. The odd half hour or hour here and there for a few one shots I can manage okay, or the occasional trip to a nearby park for a location shoot can be squeezed in on a weekend if I'm lucky. If I used that time for a dio story I wouldn't have time for anything else, and I enjoy doing one shots too much to give them up. Plus if I got bogged down in a dio story and it became a chore, it would take the fun out of it, and that would defeat the purpose. Another thing is that I've never come up with a plot that I thought was interesting enough or different enough from what everyone else has done. I would love to do one good dio story, but I'm still waiting for that flash of inspiration!
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Old 10-20-2006, 02:00 PM #9
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I usally stick to Fanfictions, meaning there are characters i use thet cannot be recreated or cuostomized. Plus, i live in suburbia and don't have room for sets.
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Old 10-20-2006, 03:39 PM #10
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Actually, if you lived in Suburbia, you'd have more room to do outdoor shots because you'd have yards and most likely, some sort of open land or forests. Unlike being an Urban Rat where you are surrounded by only buildings... :P

I mean, I've lost the garage and am building everything on the kitchen table and shooting on an island. Space is way cramped but where I am at when doing dios now, I can reuse everything. SO the S6 dio, it's all recycled pieces from teh 3.75. AND I still have 2 sheets of foamboard that I can cut up!
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