Stalled Trek: Amutt Time DVD Now Available!

[largento]

As promised, with the Dallas Comic-Con over, I am making the DVDs available for sale online!

 

You can order one here.

[Vong]

Just placed my order for one. Been looking forward to this.

 

Congrats on getting the DVD out there!

[largento]

Thanks, Curtis!

[Fuchur]

Just bought one .

I am very happy that they ship even to Germany...

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[largento]

Thanks, Gerald!

 

I'm going to make a run to the post office in the morning to mail both your's and Curtis' DVDs. It seems like most of the international packages are getting delivered in 7-8 days, so you should have it by next Wednesday!

[Rodney]

Ordered!

[largento]

Awesome! Thanks, Rodney!

[MMZ_TimeLord]

Purchased... Look forward to receipt and viewing!

[largento]

Thanks, Jody!

[mtpeak2]

Placed my order!!!

[largento]

Awesome! Thanks, Mark!

[Vong]

The DVD just showed up in the mail... I'm off to watch it and will post what I think later.

[mtpeak2]

got mine on friday, it was great Mark! Looking forward to the next one.

[largento]

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. :-)

[Rodney]

That was quick! I got my DVD in the mail yesterday.

I've been on the road and as soon as I can stay put for awhile I'll give it a view.

 

Looking forward to it!

[MMZ_TimeLord]

Mark,

 

Just got mine yesterday. Watched it today and really liked it a lot. Can't wait to see what you come up with next!

 

Cheers!

[largento]

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.

[Fuchur]

Till now I didnt receive it... but I'll wait a little longer .

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[largento]

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.

[Fuchur]

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.

 

Just received it .

Seems like the toll station had a look at it and like that it needed a little longer.

 

I cant watch it right now, but I am looking forward to see it this evening!

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[largento]

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.

[Mechadelphia]

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.

 

Good luck to you Mark with your TNG follow-up.

 

I think that the TNG Technical Manual is very good but, depending on what you are looking for in it, you may disagree. It provides a lot of the technical (fictional) backstory to the Enterprise D as far as "how it works" and some interesting behind the scenes production infromation as well.

 

If you are looking for detailed schematics of the Enterprise D I strongly recommend finding a copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints. These are nothing short of excellent. It has 13 sheets of blueprints measuring 22" by 34". They are very detailed and the quality is amazing for somthing that does not really exist in real life.

 

Ultimately, I don't know how much help either will be for you but if you are a little more than a casual fan I recommend looking into both of those.

[largento]

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. :-)

[Mechadelphia]

I understand where you are coming from.

 

I went through my copy and took a quick photo of the bridge layout.

 

Maybe this will help with a little until somthing better comes your way:

 

[largento]

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.

[Shelton]

Mark

 

Does this help

 

http://www.trekplace.com/images/tng_stage9_photo_1.jpg

[Shelton]

Mark

 

email me at steves@desdyninc.biz

 

I have lots and lots of art of Trek mechanical drawings of the sets, ships, etccc

 

 

http://pat.suwalski.net/film/st-stages/stage8.php

 

http://pat.suwalski.net/film/st-stages/sta...stage9-tng1.jpg

 

 

 

Steve

[zandoriastudios]

Those blueprints from the actual sets seem like the best way to proceed, since that is what you need for your sets.

[largento]

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

[Fuchur]

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.

 

Finally found the time watching it. I liked it. One thing that bothered me however is the extremly fast movement of the head and the chin at the same time. In combination with the bump / rouhness / (whatever you used there) it is a little distracting. I know that it looks more like a puppet then, but it is jut too fast for my brain. Only doing it on the chin or decreasing the bump/roughness could get rid of that effect.

 

Anyway: I liked the story-telling, the jokes are sometimes really hilarious and the characters are really captured very well .

Good one!

 

See you

*Fuchur*

[largento]

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

[Vong]

Ok, so I said I'd post my review and I was planning to do it the same day that the DVD showed up, after I watched it, but life happened, then work happened.

 

So, now that I've just uploaded all the edited videos to the client and I'm taking the weekend off (for once), here we go....

 

I loved it!!!! Watched twice the day the DVD showed up. Most of my kids walked in while I was watching it the first time, so they asked to watch it all the way through as well and they love it too. Only thing that really bothered me was that the hands seem too straight and un-natural. Maybe a slight curve to the fingers would be better.

 

Watching it got me pumped for doing my own 3D muppet/puppet thing. So, since I'm taking the weekend off, time to do some research and work on something...

 

Stalled Trek DVD now sits next to Killer Bean Forever, separated from the other DVDs in my collection as they hold a special meaning for me. Definitely looking forward to the next short you do, as well as your webseries (you are still doing that, right?).

[largento]

No problem, dude ...worth waiting for. :-)

 

Thanks!

 

All things are still on the table. I think doing this comic book parody is going to be my priority since launching the web series in the summer isn't a good idea (less web traffic with colleges schools out). With another con coming up in late October, I want to shoot for getting this new one done in early September. Then maybe launch the web series sometime around October and look at what I want to do next for the show in January. If I can keep the schedule, I'll have 4 DVDs finished by next May's Dallas Comic Con.

 

Working on different elements for the super-hero bodies, because the genre demands it. Going to look a little more muscular and the static hand pose will be a fist. I think this one will have huge appeal with kids, plus having the classic source material will appeal to old comic book fans like me.

[Darkwing]

Mark, for TNG colours, I'd look into what screenshots are available from the TNG Remastered project. I have the sampler blu-ray and what pics are online are both gorgeous, clear and very vibrant. Also, there's a fair difference in the colours due to the lack of what I'll call the analogue effect which TNG has suffered from. Now with them rescanning the actual negatives, the true colours are finally available.

[largento]

Thanks, Darkwing. I think the TNG parody is going to be on hold for awhile. I did finally come across a post on a forum by Rick Sternbach which basically said that records of the original paint colors weren't kept. That when touch-ups were necessary the crew just tried to match them as well as possible. There also seems to have been changes to the bridge set over the seasons, so the first season wouldn't necessarily match the 4th.

[Darkwing]

There were 2 major changes to my knowledge to the set and that was after season 1 and then after season 3. I always kinda consider season 3 and on "more TNG" than the first two seasons. There are remastered pics from post season 3, but that does suck how there's no official colour guide. And I do hope you will do it someday at least, I;d very much love to see TNG parodied in your style!