It’s go time! If you’re new here, welcome! You’ve joined us at a very exciting time. Our number of Teammates has topped one hundred and many of our leaders and veterans are in place. As of the publication of this edition of Gameplan, Phase One of the Amateur Pre-visualization Production of The Lion King: Circle of Life has begun. In this phase, our Character Design (CD) Team and Storyboard Taskforce (SX) will be the most active, setting the stage for everything to come. Both teams will be drawing from the screenplay; CD will be passing their work along to SX, the Sketch Team (SK), the Lines Team (LN), and the Colors Team (CL); and SX will pass their work on to SK, Backgrounds (BG), and the Speaking (SP) voice acting team for construction of a dialogue script. Here’s the current roster of the leadership of the project:
Art Division: Character Design Team: OPEN Sketch Team: Abbie “Zomilove” Sunter Lines Team: OPEN Colors Team: OPEN Backgrounds Team: OPEN
Animation Division: Partial Team: OPEN Motion Team: OPEN
Music Division: Composing Team: Paul “Majordomo” Holleger Lyrics Team: OPEN Performance Team: OPEN Sound Design Team: Elijah Knuckles
Voice Division: Speaking Team: Nick Huber Singing Team: OPEN
Storyboard Taskforce: OPEN
Basically, our current priorities are filling in our leadership gaps, solidifying our roster (I still have some people that haven’t confirmed a team or teams they want to participate in) and fully activating our Phase One teams: CD and SX. If you’re on either team or would like to help out in either Character Design or Storyboarding, email me and let me know. And as these are two teams that don’t have captains yet, anyone interested in leading these efforts should email me ASAP. In the meantime, Dille (the Art Division Lead) and I will be managing these teams by ourselves, which makes it harder for us to do our other jobs. So don’t be shy, potential leaders! As you may have noticed, the website has undergone some big changes, and needs more work still. Keep checking the Circle of Life page for weekly (hopefully) updates and clean-ups. Check our roster pages to make sure you’re on it, with the correct information and proper teams. Contact me with any changes. If I haven’t already done so, I’ll get you in contact with the Division Lead(s) and Team Captain (s) you’ll be working with, and get you plugged in to the effort. Thanks so much for all your volunteer effort! Catch you later!