More Like Movies: Other things

So I was discussing how gaming can get more like movies in my last post.  I've also wondered what other technologies could come about - or be built on existing ones - that will change content development and delivery.

* What of comics?  Technology like Poser and soforth are poor substitutes for drawing - for now - even with communities of support and tools and downloads out there.  I'm curious as to what the next years will bring.  Even things recognizable derived from technology may survive with a good plot (say webcomics)
* Fiction writing.  There's a lot of tools out there now to help with writing, and I'm sure it will only increase.  I expect Fiction writing distribution to be the major change.
* Animation I'm curious about.  Computer technology is making animation easier, though it certainly lacks the sylization of hand-drawn animation.  We've already seen machima movies and I wonder if animation will get easy enough for quality product to be made easier - and of course distributed.

Even with my own hobby (Seventh Sanctum) I doub there will be a substitute for human creativity.  But getting that creativity out and available - that will change.

- Steven Savage

Comments

[Rachel - Last Res0rt]

Well, as long as we're talking about webcomics...

Webcomics are always going to be constrained by one major detail: The primary effort of making a comic, no matter how good it is, is still the efforts of at best one or two people. There is almost zero correlation between involving more than two people on a comic's development and the quality / ease of creation of said comic.

That said, there is a reasonable return on investment for involving other people when non-comic tasks need to be outsourced -- book creation / layout, printing, a CERTAIN amount of social networking / interaction -- but the closest it's ever come for a webcomic being sufficiently "easy" / straightforward to make as a movie would is Ctrl+Alt+Del, to the point that's precisely where half the fan hatred of it comes from.

You'd have better odds streamlining the animation of said webcomic more than you would streamlining the webcomic itself.