Hi. Seeing Arena.Net working on their cinematics, I got an idea.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uAlf0-THkCU
The Guild Wars 2 community has a lot of artists. What if they could collaborate to create original cutscenes. Here is how could this work:
1. Some players create the story, and discuss with community artists
2. Artists draw sketches of the story scenes, and discuss with the rest of community what to improove, which sketches they like etc…
3. After this is estabilished, community artists could upgrade their sketches to full work-arts.
4. Some guys animate the layers in After Effects or 2D animation softwares, I don’t know what is the best to use.
5. Some add the music, others voice acting an it’s done.
As themes for the cinematics, the first thing that comes in my mind are Tengus. You might have better ideas.