Dinosaur Planet Animated Fanseries!

[WayCool64]

Since around 2010, I’ve been developing a fanmade animated series based around the unreleased video game Dinosaur Planet.

 

Most of you guys probably know about Dinosaur Planet and how it transitioned to Star Fox Adventures. If not, Dinosaur Planet was a game that was developed by Rareware and Nintendo and was supposed to be the Nintendo 64's swansong before Rare went on to developing next-gen titles on the Gamecube. The original project was soon rebranded into a Star Fox title after Nintendo saw similarities between DP protagonist Sabre and Star Fox's own Fox McCloud. Dinosaur Planet became a Gamecube title now known as Star Fox Adventures, with many differences besides the setting and cast changes. Nearly 1/2 of DP's original content was cut in the transition, and the new storyline of Starfox Adventures became a plothole ridden mess. Shortly after SFA's release, Rareware was purchased by Microsoft, spelling the end of Rare and Nintendo's partnership to this day.

Despite these events, the story of what would've been Rareware's last and greatest game on Nintendo 64 has not been forgotten. Even after many years, gamers and beta enthusiasts continued to look into the mysteries surrounding Dinosaur Planet and its transition into SFA. Now me and my team are here to pay tribute to one of the greatest lost Nintendo 64 games of all time.

 

The story of Dinosaur Planet follows two characters who must save a planet in peril. Along their journey they face many challenges, such as an evil reptilian tyrant, a destructive dragon, the mysterious Quan Ata Lachu, and many more.

 

We have planned out a total of 13 episodes. We currently have four of the episodes written out, but right now we are in the need of a new head writer, as our previous one had to leave due to unfortunate situations she needed to take care of. We are also in need of more animators. We have about 5 animators so far, but we are still looking for more who are skilled in either traditional or computer animation. The animation we plan for the series will be mostly traditional animation, mixed with minor CG bits used to enhance a few scenes. As for voice actors, we pretty much have most of the entire cast selected, but we are still in need of a few more minor roles.

As of right now, we have no budget for this project since we are trying to work around the copyright issues with Nintendo. Because of this, the work is mainly volunteering until further notice.

Below is an animated clip of the upcoming teaser trailer we plan to release later this Spring.

For more info on the series, visit http://dpfanseries.webs.com

 

If you are interested in joining the team, or if you have any questions, feel free to contact me at: cinerassicproductions@gmail.com, or just shoot me a PM

PS: I wasn't quite sure which section of the forum this topic fitted in since I wanted to include the link to the project's website and some of the rules are a bit confusing for me.

[Navis]

looks great! they literally stamped the name of star fox on Dinosaur Planet. i always thought and will think that this game would work better with his own plot

good luck!

[Sylono]

Well I chuckled at that gif, I'm optimistic for this project, heck I even join that forum.

[fanfictiondreamer]

Good luck to you, bud. To tell you the truth, I never disliked the idea of the original Dinosaur Planet idea, but when Starfox Adventures came out, I was dealing with a mean teacher, whom I now call an emotionally abusive Chemo patient. I get he was battling cancer, but that's no excuse for him to be a jerk. Starfox Adventures helped me to cope with that horrible time in my life and I have loved it ever since.

[delete-this-pls?]

33 minutes ago, fanfictiondreamer said:

Good luck to you, bud. To tell you the truth, I never disliked the idea of the original Dinosaur Planet idea, but when Starfox Adventures came out, I was dealing with a mean teacher, whom I now call an emotionally abusive Chemo patient. I get he was battling cancer, but that's no excuse for him to be a jerk. Starfox Adventures helped me to cope with that horrible time in my life and I have loved it ever since.

I'm sorry to hear that. There's nothing wrong about liking SFA

9 hours ago, Sylono said:

Well I chuckled at that gif, I'm optimistic for this project, heck I even join that forum.

We haven't yet decided our artstyle. Here's an example of what else we can do. 

 

[hoo]

I can't animate as well as that, but if you ever need an extra music guy, I can do a lot of different stuff.

[Sylono]

5 hours ago, Swedguy said:

We haven't yet decided our artstyle. Here's an example of what else we can do. 

 

Sweet, certainly love what ya'll 're capable of, will you be showing up again on this forum when you've got a set date for the trailer?

[WayCool64]

21 hours ago, Sylono said:

Sweet, certainly love what ya'll 're capable of, will you be showing up again on this forum when you've got a set date for the trailer?

Of course. When the trailer is finished, we plan to announce a livestream event for the premiere of it, which may also include a Q&A and other things.

[CommanderRed]

Hey, I can use photoshop and are you looking for voice actors? I have a 4 octave voice so I think I can really help out with that. I can also help with cleaning up of frames in photoshop. WILL DO ANYTHING FOR THIS.

I also can compose a soundtrack for this. I have been playing piano for a total of 7 years and I have composed and written over 300 songs. I am willing to do that.

[Animal Pilot]

Maybe it is too late to make suggestions, but this would be absolutely adorable for the art style and matches the Rare character models.