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xabian
May 14th, 2009, 05:39 PM
I seem to remember something like this rattling around a while back but can't seem to find it again, also it seemed to come up with some really random combination's.
So yeah I've attempted to make one kinda, how it works is you use a random number generator such as this Dungeons and Dragons dice roller (http://www.wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm) to choose a number for each of the topics listed bellow, any suggestions on this or whatever would be much appreciated

Project Brief Maker
Medium
1. Movie
2. Animation
3. MMO
4. RPG
5. FPS
6. TPS
7. RTS
8. Isometric RPG
9. Tabletop
10. Card Game
Concept Type
1. Sketch
2. Thumbnails
3. 3D Turnaround
4. B/W Illustration
5. Colour Illustration
6. Traditional Illustration
Genre
1. Sci-Fi
2. Fantasy
3. Modern Fantasy
4. Steam Punk
5. Bio Warfare
6. Modern
7. Post Apocalyptic
8. Post Modern
9. WWI
10. WWII
11. WWIII
12. Alien allied
13. Alien Warfare
14. Cartoon
15. Comic Book super hero
16. Comic Book super villain
17. Comic Book sidekick evil
18. Comic Book sidekick good
19. Horror
20. Fighting
Form
1. Character
2. Creature
3. Environment
4. Weapon
5. Vehicle
6. Storyboard (reroll if Tabletop or Card game)
7. Building
8. Prop
9. Portrait
10. Pet
Key words/phrases
1. Rescue
2. Entrapped
3. Crazed opposing team
4. Mutated
5. Escape
6. Magic
7. Psychic Powers
8. Gangs
9. Massacre
10. Destruction
11. Elemental
12. Fire
13. Ice
14. Snow
15. Earth
16. Terrorism
17. Cannibal
18. Organic Contraption
19. Hive
20. Underground

Baron Impossible
May 14th, 2009, 06:24 PM
What do you want it to, you know, do? Easy enough to choose a random item from each list and join them together but it won't make much sense. Maybe give an example of what it might say?

xabian
May 14th, 2009, 06:38 PM
Ok right yeah fair enough I'll do an example to show you how it works.
Medium = RTS
Concept Type = Sketch
Genre = Fantasy
Form = Prop
Key words/phrases = Elemental

So the brief would be "to sketch a fantasy elemental prob for an RTS"

Taj
May 14th, 2009, 08:59 PM
I like this.

Taj
May 15th, 2009, 03:56 PM
I was thinking about this, and maybe if you combined it with Prometheus|ANJ (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=129457&page=8) ArtPG (http://www.sirmikeofmitchell.com/apedogs/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=158&sid=c8d93e6db96db6049a0c7b571e99f441) it could work out to be a really fun amazing project.

Costau D
May 19th, 2009, 09:55 AM
Can't this site just eaily implement that the first 2 posts posted from a new account has to be reviewed before any posts can be viewed? Cgtalk I know has this policy. I don't know how easy it is to implement though.

J Wilson
May 19th, 2009, 10:32 AM
Perhaps a 5-10 minute wait between posts for anyone with a post count under ten?

ac1710
June 16th, 2009, 08:09 PM
I have a fair bit of trouble coming up with design briefs for myself to keep my drawing in practice, this really helped. Nice one!
Found it works well if you roll a couple of times per criteria, gives it more depth!
Maybe if we all chipped in, we could get the Keywords up to a list of 100, that'd make it random!
Thanks!