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Thanks, Gerald! Hoping things will improve as I do more of them, but glad to hear you enjoyed it!

So, the TNG parody wasn't getting me excited, so I started thinking of other projects I could do and this one just appeals to me like crazy. It's an animated puppet parody of the classic "Giant-Size X-Men #1," the first appearance of the "new" X-Men. As a longtime comic book fan, this one just feels like so much fun and I love the idea of bringing the comic book to life with 3D puppets. Have started work on the characters... Here's hoping I can get this puppy done and on DVD by mid-October in time for the next local con!

Well, it wouldn't be a "STALLED Trek" project if it didn't get stalled. :-) I've decided to put this one on hold while I work on another project.

I am really deeply saddened to hear this news. Paul was one of the good guys. A great talent who also was great at passing out encouragement to newbies like myself. He will be missed.

Yes, they are a good start. The Haynes manual turned out to be really helpful, too.

Thanks. Ive found some okay bridge layouts I got spoiled because blueprints of the TOS bridge were easy to come by. I've found some reference material and photos of a replicated set which gives me a start.

Thanks! My critique of the materials is only related to what I need for this project. Neither of those provide me with much useful information. The blueprints are just of the ship and it's decks, which aren't really useful. The Secondprize-D, like its TOS counterpart isn't very detailed and is purposely incorrectly proportioned. I'm mostly looking for plans of the sets and those are proving more difficult to find. Unfortunately, most of my Trek books are still in storage and unavailable to me and I'm hesitant to re-buy the ones that aren't going to be of much help. :-)

Oh, good, Gerald! Definitely let me know what you think! I'm probably on some list to investigate since I suddenly started sending out scores of identical little packages all over the world. :-) Ordered some Trek reference books that should come in today. TNG Technical Manual (as I vaguely recalled) was a bust. It's largely text explaining warp fields and other such technobabble. What illustrations there are aren't useful. I'm putting a lot of faith in this new "Haynes" Owner's Manual for the Enterprise. TNG went away from the sterile battleship grays of TOS, so one challenge, I'm sure is going to be getting the colors right. You can look at six images of the bridge set and the wall colors are different in every one, varying from pinkish to yellowish to pale brown.

I would have thought you'd have gotten it by now, Gerald. I mailed it on the 23rd. Most people overseas have gotten their's in 7 or 8 days. Let me know if it doesn't come soon. I've got the Customs ticket.

Thanks, man! Really glad you liked it. I'm in research mode on the new one. Trying to gather up a bunch of stuff. I'll never use most of it, but I feel like it's a part of the process.

Okay, try this page Go to your System Preference and select the Spotlight pane. Click on the Privacy tab. Now drag your Animation Master folder onto the list. Once it's there, remove it, by selecting it and hitting the minus "-" button at the bottom of the list. This will make Spotlight re-index the folder (and its contents.)

Maybe if the indexing was updated? Not sure how you do that (I always thought it indexed your hard drive automatically.) Can you do a "Get Info" on one of the folders? If everything was right, it should look like this: Any Mac Users know how to get the OS to re-index these files ...or recognize them?

It seems to me like your system isn't acknowledging the .hxt file format. Can you do a search and see if you have any other ".hxt" files? I've had issues in the past where I was unable to use A:M's shaders because the .shd file format name is shared by another application. The only solution that I've found is to uninstall the offending application.

Working at 24fps is the standard. Most post apps will convert frame rates, meaning you don't have to render as many frames. Also, animation books are going to give you timing tips that are based on animating at 24fps.

Very nice! Great choice for the narrator.

A lesson too many of us have to learn the hard way. :-) I like the new truck and the drop-down drumkit is a cool idea!

Looking good!

Thanks, Mark! I'm in the process of writing the follow-up. It's going okay, but the original had the advantage of having been written several times over a 16 year period. :-)

Nice! Great atmosphere in that clip!

Thanks, Chris! It is crazy that it took longer for you to get it in Canada than people across an ocean, but I'm glad you got it ...and especially glad you enjoyed it! My plan was to have the webseries as part of the DVD, but I just ran out of time. Not including the Paunk! Show pilot was just forgetfulness. I had intended on putting it on there. I think I got distracted by the Wannabe Pirates trailer finally being finished and it slipped my mind. Thanks again for your help!

Awesome! Thanks, Mark!

Thanks, guys. I'm just in the writing stage now. Amutt Time had the benefit of having had several "drafts" that were written over 16 years that I could use as the basis for the script. :-) The plan right now is to do both parts in one 15 minute movie, so there'll be a lot of things that will be trimmed out. I do have a running gag I like for Wesley Crusher in this, but I don't know if it will make it in yet. TNG serviced a lot more characters than TOS did, and this one adds Cmdr. Shelby as a large part of the show. Just thinking out loud, there's: Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, Worf, Troi, Dr. Crusher, Wesley, Guinan, Shelby, an Admiral and then the Borg, of course. It's going to be tricky condensing all of this.

Thanks, Jody!

Awesome! Thanks, Rodney!

That's the ticket! :-) It was great fun. I look forward to having both the "Stalled Trek" and "Stalled Trek: TMG" DVDs at the next one. Plus, the web series will be up by then, and I'll hopefully have more people aware of it. Thanks! It's a Storenvy store. I may do something more fancier with it later on, but it works for now.