Members Dead Star Posted August 31, 2009 Members Share Posted August 31, 2009 Basically, I've been told that I'm on my own when it comes to my band (not really fired as everyone just decided to quit.) This leaves me alone (luckily, I can play most instruments). I decided that instead of just dropping the band, I'm going to reinvent it. The idea I have is, like I said; pretty risky. You see, I'm not the best looking plant in the pot if you know what I mean. There is no way I could make it in the music business in my current state. Instead of holding everything until I can get my hands on some better looks, I had the idea to get... well, animated. I'm going to create a whole new persona (kinda like gorillaz), drawn by an artist on commission over at DeviantArt. Using that persona, I'd be able to actively fight for a place in the music business while keeping my life private and getting in shape. I'm not really expecting to get really big or anything like that. I just like a good challenge. I've already opened a local venue here in my hometown, as well as start talks with a film studio about distributing a foreign film here in the states. I just want to test the waters, see how tough it is to make it in the industry. I just like exploring new territory. I'm completely new to the industry. My band was a studio band, just playing for {censored}s and giggles to pass the time. I need some basic tips on how to launch this project. I'm not going to have the luxury of doing live shows or anything like that (I don't want to give away the secret!) so I'm going to have to be creative in getting my music out there.Here are some bullet pointsGOOD-Easy Anime and Manga fan-base-Complete creative control over my music-Don't have to blow off work or school to tour.-plus more BAD-Can't do shows until much later-Gonna be hard getting people to take me seriously-Run the risk of having the persona stolen and abused-Just by putting this idea out here on the forums, I run the risk of having it stolen-plus more TL;DR: I'm creating an anime persona to cover for the fact that I'm not the best looking guy, and I'm coming here to ask for advice in how to tackle this challenge. Thanks for reading! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanzant38 Posted August 31, 2009 Members Share Posted August 31, 2009 Interesting idea. Best of Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richturin Posted August 31, 2009 Members Share Posted August 31, 2009 I think one of your first steps would be to get a cool website going and link it to all of the social networks. This type of thing can be huge with proper viral marketing. I work for a company called webair and we do web hosting and site optimization. We can even register your domain for you. We are safe and secure, fast and reliable and offer customer support 24/7/365 Let me know if I can be of any assistance to you... Rich Turin516-938-4100 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members shurefire Posted August 31, 2009 Members Share Posted August 31, 2009 quite interesting. you could do live shows though you know right?I'm a one man band and I use a loop station, sampler, laptop. (just looks like a jackass doing karaoke unfortunately) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dead Star Posted September 4, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 quite interesting. you could do live shows though you know right?I'm a one man band and I use a loop station, sampler, laptop. (just looks like a jackass doing karaoke unfortunately) I would LOVE to do live shows! The problem for me is, when an audience goes to a show to see a skinny animated character and end up seeing a large guy behind the station, they may very well be a little upset:'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members richardmac Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 I know a guy who does this, actually. He came up with the different band members, he puts them on his CD's, and he made a music video and put it on youtube. He's really into recording and does not want to gig solo or with a band. I think it's an interesting idea but the music has to match... there almost has to be a sort of silliness to the thing. You're not going to write slow acoustic songs about suicide and have a cartoon character sing them. Somehow the music ought to match the art really well. If interested in what he's done, here's the link: http://stonemarmot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theboywho Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Sounds like it would be a lot of work, but still could be good to do. For live shows you could do it if you stuck to places with a projector, use a laptop with some kind of backing track synced up to visuals and play over that and it could work. Alternatively get a motion capture suit, although that might be a bit too much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dthraco Posted September 14, 2009 Members Share Posted September 14, 2009 Expanding on theboywho's idea. You could run the projector and music and just say you "work" for the character/s. The voices tell you what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jacob Mathews Posted October 29, 2009 Members Share Posted October 29, 2009 Maybe a good way to get your name out there without a face is to distribute your music on a portable, new medium. A lot of artists and companies have started working with USB as an innovative new form of marketing, such as its shown in this article. It's worth looking into, at least, to see if such a format is feasible for what you want to do either now or in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members theboywho Posted November 3, 2009 Members Share Posted November 3, 2009 Anyway, updates, its been a couple of months now, what have you decided on and how are you doing it? I'm quite interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MartinC Posted November 3, 2009 Members Share Posted November 3, 2009 Brilliant idea IMO. Unlimited potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thiflivim Posted November 4, 2009 Members Share Posted November 4, 2009 I accept with information: some bullet pointsGOOD-Easy Anime and Manga fan-base-Complete creative control over my music-Don't have to blow off work or school to tour.-plus moreBAD-Can't do shows until much later-Gonna be hard getting people to take me seriously-Run the risk of having the persona stolen and abused-Just by putting this idea out here on the forums, I run the risk of having it stolen-plus more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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