 Link: http://www.ninjai.com/Site Flash keren yang dibuat oleh orang-orang yang profesi aslinya adalah bermacam-macam.
berikut interview dengan mereka:
Where are members of the Ninjai Gang located?
All over the world.
What do you do for a living?
Different members of the gang do different things. A lot of us do low-tech work like washing high-rise windows, fixing up and selling used cars, and stuff like that.
What do you like to do in your spare time?
None of us has any spare time. Basically we spend our time working as much as we need to make ends meet and pay for Ninjai; practice our martial arts and stunt work; work on our live-action production, which will blow people's minds as much as Ninjai has; make music; do crazy stuff like go surfing in places we probably shouldn't (by surfing we mean in water, you know, with surfboards); play soccer; play videogames; get in trouble.
How did you get started on Ninjai? Was there a connection between that and the live-action project you're working on?
Yes. One of the boys got injured on the set doing a stunt. Being immobilized, he was stuck indoors and started working on this character because he didn't have anything else to do. He showed it to the rest of us for our input, and as a team we took that character through a lot of changes over the next few months. For example, in the beginning it wasn't a ninja, it wasn't set in the past, and it wasn't set in Japan. It was just a stick figure! Gradually Ninjai, the character you now know, was born. So sometimes bad things happen to good people, but good people end up doing good things even though a bad thing happened to them. So a big positive has come out of a temporary negative of a physical injury. If he didn't get injured, there would be no Ninjai. It's interesting the way things work out.
Why did the Ninjai Gang try to do Ninjai on the Internet?
We try to be self-sufficient in everything we produce, as much as possible. We want to take things as far as we can without getting other people's money and help, because otherwise we lose control. So the Internet was a great opportunity for us to introduce the character and concept, and we didn't have to come up with a million dollars to do a TV pilot and so forth. But to tell you honestly, we didn't really think about things that far ahead of time - we just really enjoyed what we had done, and we thought other people would too, so we decided to put it up on the Internet. We weren't really thinking ahead or making any big plans.
What is your favorite website?
Ninjai.com, of course. To tell you the truth, we don't have much time to surf the Web.
Tools used:
Flash 5. We're using Flash because we've gotten good at it, and we're able to do it ourselves and be self-sufficient. Although in order to keep up with the demand, we are starting to have to look for key animators who like Ninjai and are really good, whom we can afford. Does anybody know anyone? E-mail us here.
Describe your animation process:
Everything starts with the character, the person Ninjai. As far as we're concerned, he's a real person, and what he does next, where he goes, what he's feeling, what other characters are in there, and what they're feeling and who they are, that's where it's all coming from that's the main reason it takes us so long to come out with episodes. We're just absolutely crazy sometimes about making it look as good as possible and creating the right moods and atmosphere and so on.  | |
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