MORAV and Hollywood's Cross-Pollination of Media
Since "Birth of a Nation" (which is based on a book called The Clansman), the entertainment industry has traditionally turned to classical and contemporary literature as well as historical events to flesh out their storylines. Oftentimes the results have been block-busters and today, a new age of Y-Gen entrepreneurs are looking beyond the final curtain.
(PRWEB) June 14, 2007 -- Since "Birth of a Nation" (which is based on a book called The Clansman), the entertainment industry has traditionally turned to classical and contemporary literature as well as historical events to flesh out their storylines. Oftentimes the results have been block-busters and today, a new age of Y-Gen entrepreneurs are looking beyond the final curtain.
Fon Davis, an ex-ILM'er (Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic visual effects company), has worked on such movies as all six Star Wars episodes, Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Matrix films, just to name a few. According to Fon, "Genres today are mixing and matching, overlapping and interrelating, feeding and devouring each other in a creative frenzy. No one today knows where the story ends and the motion picture or game begins and it creates a whole new tableau for us artists to use."
With the success of numerous comic book titles being interpreted for the motion picture medium, the cross-pollination of media from and to motion pictures, graphic novels, and games is underway. Look at the success of movies like Sin City, 300, and A History of Violence as examples. While audiences may have flocked to see these movies, how many of them knew their origins were in graphic novels? And to that end, how many cared? A story is a story after all, no matter what its origin.
It doesn't take a wizard (such as Harry Potter) to see there is an extremely lucrative business case for that one unique company to enter into the gestalt of this endeavor by simultaneously creating the look, feel and story that appeals to and works for all three - console games, motion pictures and graphic novels. Or, in some cases, for successful motion picture companies to begin producing their own comics and console games. The best way to do that is to show Hollywood your concept and that's what Fon David has done with MORAV.
MORAV is an acronym for Multi-Operational Robotic Armored Vehicle, robots that stand about thirty feet tall and look a little like large mechanical gorillas. "So far, we've developed MORAV with no financial backing and we've even shot our own animatic (a promotional concept video) in my garage studio using real robotic miniatures and practical model sets."
The plan so far has been to do as much as possible with miniature visual effects combined with live action. The MORAV team has designed their robots to be operated by a telemetry suit that a puppeteer can wear which actually make the robots mimic their movements. These robots look and move like real robots because they actually are real robots.
So what's next for the team developing MORAV? "We're making MORAV into a comic book series right now, but we would love to slide it into a web series, a television series or even a motion picture," Davis notes. "Hollywood is always looking for original stories and marketable franchises. We feel we've created exactly that with MORAV."
Check out more about Fon Davis and the progress of MORAV at: www.MORAV.net.
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