Sure, there are restrictions - you can only have two characters in a scene, you often have next to no control over camera angles, there aren’t really enough actions (and, to a lesser extent, expressions) to choose from, strange intonation can often ruin the delivery of lines, and most of the program’s assets must be purchased via microtransactions. The “movie script” aspect of the editor is inspired and you can hit play at any point to see what you’ve got so far. Making stuff with Plotagon is actually a lot of fun. Plotagon’s plot editor is almost the antithesis of Marvel: Create Your Own (an online comic editor I used to create “Everything Is Red Now”) in that using it doesn’t feel like deliberate self-harm. I’ve gone on a bit of a kick lately in terms of using restrictive programs to tell stories. Most literally, a recent falling out inspired the rough outline of episode one. Instead I saw it more as an outlet - and indeed, the themes of Are You Happy are representative of the kind of headspace I’ve been in. Having seen Aris Martinian’s work on Worm Abridged and Satan’s Threads, I really wasn’t expecting to produce anything on that level of quality. The editor soon draws you into its fast and intuitive user interface and before long I had a draft of what would become “I Hate You”. Impressed by the software’s results, I downloaded it on a whim. I stumbled upon Plotagon via Aris Martinian’s Worm Abridgedseries, itself a derivative work based on Wildbow’s epic web serial Worm. I was just messing around and then this happened. I made a full 13-episode animated web series with Plotagon.
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