WHAT?
Collaborn Visions is a collaborative productions enterprise which locates and creates paying work for its freelance 'staffers'. It is starting small and will continue to diversify as it is able and into fields either considered desireable or practical by its 'president'. When the time is right, Collaborn Visions(as a service) may go commercial, but commercialization defeats so many benefits that such a move is not a serious consideration at this time and it is thought it never shall be.

WHY?
Collaborn Visions is launching for several reasons, some of them of a personal nature, others concerning market trends and public service needs.

1: To provide cheaper production services for ambitious and passionate would-be producers.

Support: http://www.atlantisstudios.net/comics_custom.htm

2: To create paying work for various interested or desperate artists.

Support: Many artists have ambitions to work in comic production fields, and many others in need of money have the necessary skills to do so and have not considered becoming part of collaborative comic production teams. Persons who join the Collaborn Visions 'staff' will have work brought to them when it is found.

3: To show what money, skills and passion can do when calculatedly fused together.

Support: Between deviantArt and Fur Affinity alone, there are hundreds of artists who can provide various comic production services if only they are invited to and given a chance to develop their skills. This will not be possible for many on anything less than a decently paid basis, and perhaps only in connection with various projects which suit their skills and interests well. Collaborn studios is concerned with locating such ones and matching them up with projects they can enjoy and make income from.

4: To raise funds for various public and private productions, most of which will be produced in connection with Collaborn Visions and/or released through it.

Support ~ Collaborn Visions is slated to handle the initial development of a 2.5 million dollar project over the next four years, a project which it is estimated will offer paying work opportunities to hundreds of writers, artists, audio specialists and programmers. And also numerous other series meant for commercial release.

WHO?
The Founder and Managing Director of Collaborn Visions is a lazy bum and has an often offensive personality, but his intentions are pure and he has started his 'company' for publically acknowledged reasons of his own and with every hope that all who become a part of the Collaborn Visions cooperative will find their reputations enhanced and their yearly income bulstered.

Collaborn Visions is currently unregistered and unlicensed and shall until otherwise necessary continue to be so. It will have no employees, instead relying on aspiring and established freelance artists for securing production services on various agreeable terms and conditions.

HOW?
To begin with, Collaborn Visions will specialize in short term, commissioned productions, ranging from 4-30 pages in length and taking no longer to complete than 1-8 weeks. Such projects will be on a pay-as-work basis and will not involve contracts. Later on, projects of a larger and more lengthy nature will be taken on and contracts involving firm deadlines and monies in advance will be utilized.

Collaborn Visions' basic unit will be each individual person, but its promises of production will rely on carefully formulated Production Teams of from 2-5 persons, each of whom will have their own areas of responsability and expertise, but which areas they will not be limited to unless by their own choice.

WHEN?
As you may be aware, Collaborn Visions is currently recruiting freelance 'staff'. Production commissions will be sought when the first of many reliable Production Teams has been formed and a reasonable degree of freelance support is perceived to be forthcoming; things happen and it is important that customers are not let down. Ever.

ATTRACTIONS:
Collaborn Visions will conditionally accept commissions for the production of comics in any genre, style and of any content rating, whether such productions are intended for private, free public or commercial uses/release. The conditions involve the availability of artists suited to particular projects, contracts where necessary and price negotiations.

Collaborn Visions will offer many courtesy services to show its appreciation for the producers who utilize its services, from complimentary avatar series, banner ads and promotional art, as well as free advertising via its freelance 'staff' for limited periods of time. [Collaborn Visions will not employ any special advertisement staffers, will merely rely on the courtesy of its artists to temporarily run Courtesy Ads in various locations, both here on FA and elsewhere on other appropriate sites they frequent.]

Collaborn Visions has every intention of investing in what is considered a revolutionary new webcomics presentation format called the SSPFF webcomics process, which will utilize what is termed S-Animation features. Once development of the SSPFF process has been completed and it is ready for commercial use, Collaborn Visions will offer print-to-webcomic conversion programming services and original webcomic presentations.

NOTES:
Collaborn Visions is determined to make use only of artists, writers and audio specialists who are listed in the On Demand skills and services resource threads. Utilization of these threads is free and the potential benefits extend far beyond any person's possible relationship with Collaborn Visions. http://www.furaffinityforums.net/sh......php?tid=18019

QUESTIONS will please be directed to the Shouts on this accounts user page.

This concerns all materials - fan fiction or original, volunteered or commissioned - upon which various commissioned and C-V Original productions will and may be based.

The Textual Division encompasses all aspects of original and inspired writing for C-V productions, including and certainly not limited to; song lyrics, poetry, character biographies and racial/planetary histories, plot summaries and extensive overviews, scripts, shorts, chapter/episode series, novellas and novels, script renderings, epics and advertisement and promotional materials.

This division involves both textual and visual conceptions, perhaps also audio. It will list the known voluntary and freelance "staffers" which comprise various general and specialized concepts departments, which include aspects connected to most early and refined development and Production Phases.

This is one of the most open divisions, as concepts are the basis and fuel for all types and scales of projects and destined productions. Amature, semi-professional and professional conceptionists of all sorts are sought and are please to feel most welcome to sign into this division on any basis.

This division of Collaborn Visions is expected to be the hardest to build and maintain, even if organization progresses smoothly. Timely and calculated production is recognized to be both taxing and daunting for inexperienced parties. The seriousness, personal dedication and organization required to work in this division is a hurdle few are expected to be willing - let alone able - to jump.

The very nature of the Intergration Profile for this division will give pause to all and only the bravest, most determined and ambitious persons who are sent a copy of it are expected to return it filled out in any detail.

Considering the dizzying nature of Managing and Directing a "company" such as Collaborn Visions, it is doubtful that dealings with indecisive and inexperienced persons will be either easy or equally beneficial for all parties, but provided that basic requirements(such as will be made clear both publically and privately) are met, all interested parties are enthusiastically welcomed to apply to join the ranks of the freelance "staffers" of Collaborn Visions.

Visual Division "Staff":
FoxmanZEO of DD
ShatteredSecrets of FA

Efforts to locate interest on one site in particular are proving very positive. A decent staff of volunteer and fee-based musicians/composers is expected to grow here quite quickly, even though there is expected to be little demand for audio services - in connection with C-V productions - for many months yet.


DEPARTMENTS ~

Character Themes

Locale/Cultural/Planetary Themes

Mood Themes

Partial Scoring

Full Scoring

Snippets

Intro Titles

End Titles

Lyric Scoring

Samples are intended for various uses, all of which should be made clear up front and hopefully will be here.

In regards to the creation of Production Teams, Phase 1 samples will be sent around to various Phase 2 classed artists for custom workovers to demonstrate if their style is complimentary to the previous Phase(s). The same goes for each phase where experimentations are practical, possibly excepting Phase 4.

Potential customers will be sent various samples work so that they may select the artists which will comprise their Custom Production Crew, should they desire such a privalege.

Waiver Issues :~:
All samples provided by prospective and secured freelance "staff" members will optionally require use waivers in various forms, whether a permission acknowledgement below, by private E or community mail or an actual physical document signed and sent through the mail. Whatever needs be.

Updates and general and specific details about the "revolutionary" new SSPFF webcomics process will be found here.

A programmer is currently being sought and C-V is fully prepared to begin negotiations for the signing of a contract involving development fees, usage and distribution kickbacks and copyrights and marketability concerns.

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Details:

In appropriate places and where desired, SSPFF presentations will incorperate Time Lapse and/or Rapid Sequencial Slide animations, while will largely be the product of digital touchings.

Original productions and print t-o SSPFF conversions will require an extensive "staff" of avatar and icon pixel artists.

SSPFF productions with audio features will require an extensive audio editing/mixing and programming "staff".

Full audio SSPFF productions of any considerable length will require a proven, varied and versitile pool of voice actors.

Production Costs and Time Estimates:
BASED ON 30 pgs. of Converting Material
Avrg. 120+ frames + frames for TLA/RSSA parts
Avrg. 20 min. play time
Avrg. 8 member crew
Avrg. 40+ days prod. period
Avrg. $75 per page
Avrg. $25 per panel

Production Schedule: for a 120(30pg.=) frames production
PHASE 1 BASIS(excludes concepts and planning development period)
Minimum 4 Ph. 1 frames per day
+ adjustments and production phase overlap
+ allowances for holdups and SSPFF programming
+ scoring, dialogue/voicings, editing/mixing, timing
= 90 days max./50 days full production crews & ideal coordination


Production Rates Breakdowns:
Phase 1 ~ 4-12 frames per day
Phase 2 ~ 8-16 frames per day
Phase 2.5 ~ SSPFF Specific, AUDIO, Dialogue and Themes
Phase 3 ~ Voided for SSPFF productions.
Phase 4 ~ 4-12 frames per day
Phase 5 ~ SSPFF Specific, AUDIO, Final Scoring


Print/Traditional Web t-o SSPFF conversion Estimates:
Avrg. $20 per page without soundtrack, $35 with

Est. Conversion Presentation Lengths
Avrg. 8 panels per, 30-120 pages
Conversion Est. = 4 frames per page
Avrg. Dialogue Lapse ~ 10 sec. per frame
= Avrg. 20 min. per 30 pgs./1:20 per 120 pgs.


Free Courtesy Package
$100 Promotions Package

This journal will include direct customer feedback quotes - in whole or in part - which will show where services may be duely adequate and where they may be lacking in either quality, speed or imagination.

This journal will present the private projects conceived and/or in development by various of the C-V freelance "staffers", so that other interested "staff" may offer to get involved and form voluntary production teams. C-V may express interest in various of the projects listed here and offer to help offset production costs or to entirely fund same, perhaps on various conditions.

This journal will serve to aid contact between various freelance "staffers", possibly from e-mail addresses, IM and Chat community IDs, to account locations at various popular sites, such as FF.Net, deviantArt and Drunk Duck.

General availability/contactable hours might optionally be listed, and for important productions and between P-Team members such seems wise.

One-time, standing, repeat and major financiers of various private and publically commissioned C-V productions will be listed here.

The fees and rates of various freelance service and skills providers working with or through C-V will be regulated to a reasonable extent to keep overall production cost levels as low as reasonably possible in order to compete with other production services of like status and structure.

Once a freelancer comes to feel unreasonably limited, it is supposed the time will have come to sever ties between that person and C-V. No bias and sorry to see the finer artists go, but C-V is determined to offer some of the lowest production prices in the general print and webcomics development and production industry and general and specific relationship severances may conceivably become necessary.

This journal will contain the titles and descriptions of various general and specific contracts which may be crafted for use as C-V takes on larger and longer term production projects. These will be offered for free use and reference upon request, but might be unfit for modifications in some instances.

This will make clear the views of C-V in regards to the rights of commissioners, volunteers and freelance "staffers" concerning concepts and produced materials in connection with past, present and future productions, whether any amount of money is involved or not.

This will list all projects slated for or currently under either exploritory development or progressive production by various of C-V's freelance "staff".

A listing location for various fan and original projects which are submitted to C-V on a voluntary basis for possible SSPFF production. Each entry will include various details concerning the project and a synopsis/overview. This is on a first come, first serve basis, so projects simular to those already produced or listed will not be permitted here.

As full an overview listing of the various identified Production Phase and Conceptual Development aspects as can be, shall be here.

CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT:

Project Ideas

Element Concepts

Storylines

Locales

Characters

General Plot Arcs

PRODUCTION PHASES:

C-V's finished, commissioned productions will be listed here, with overviews of time, cost and the known fate of the materials.

Where do the funds for the C-V productions come from? To whom are they paid out to? All the details in-depth about C-V's finacial operations.

This will list all freelance "staff" members who are willing to work for free on certain production projects, in exchange for credit, exposure, commercial percentages and experience.