I am in charge of the cgi production of a new trek fan film, this one has the voluntary offer of bill shatner for a voice over, and am in need of assistants. now, i have to say right off the bat, we have no cash at all, and are making this purely out of love for the project and the fandom of Trek in general. it is our intention to create a well made, animated Trek film, with professional looks and epic scale events. if you think you can help, we shall be delighted to hear from you. what do we need? texture artists, 3d model builders, animators, you name it, we need it. at the moment, there are only the two of us, but we hope that as many people out there who love trek as much as we do will join our dream and help us to bring Trek back to where it was once before. If paramount will not help us, we need to show them what we can do! we, the fans need to drag trek back to the top of the list! join us, show us what you can do, and let us make a film to be remembered!
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Wrong forum. Hold on while I move this to Fan Productions...
ok. forgive the lack of details, i am new to asking for help. the film is currently being written as i write this, it will be a many parter, depending on popularity, and also is intended to bring the whole of the star trek universe together and return it to where it should have been all along. it begins in the jj verse, and sees many characters - new and old - being brought together in one climatic conflict that is going to blow the socks off of anyone who watches it..
i hope this is sufficient information to help. oh, the intended length of the film is going to be around two hours, per episode...please forgive any spelling errors, getting used to a new keyboard.
thanks for reading, guys.
i hope this is sufficient information to help. oh, the intended length of the film is going to be around two hours, per episode...please forgive any spelling errors, getting used to a new keyboard.
thanks for reading, guys.
Is your Shift key in a new place, as well? 
We see posts like this all the time: newcomers who pop in with plans to make this big thing but haven't even gotten a script yet. Most of these never come to fruition, so you'll have to excuse the healthy skepticism you're likely to encounter.
We see posts like this all the time: newcomers who pop in with plans to make this big thing but haven't even gotten a script yet. Most of these never come to fruition, so you'll have to excuse the healthy skepticism you're likely to encounter.
Exactly, a script should be your priority, and that always takes more time than anyone expects. Expecially since you seem to want to throw even the kitchen sink into it.
You're planning many 2-hour episodes? for what's basically a one-man operation, that sounds like a decade's worth of work. Perhaps you should get in touch with a member here who HAS done a CG star trek episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHyGlqsjsQ&index=45&list=PL80FEA9A3E177FC8B
I wasn't paying attention to how long his first episode took, but he released the first 8 minutes of his second one last fall. His episodes are tightly plotted, and have a modest amount of characters which probably made it easier to complete.
You're planning many 2-hour episodes? for what's basically a one-man operation, that sounds like a decade's worth of work. Perhaps you should get in touch with a member here who HAS done a CG star trek episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHyGlqsjsQ&index=45&list=PL80FEA9A3E177FC8B
I wasn't paying attention to how long his first episode took, but he released the first 8 minutes of his second one last fall. His episodes are tightly plotted, and have a modest amount of characters which probably made it easier to complete.
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I invite you to look through Star Trek Reviewed and look at the many animated Star Trek Fan Films that exist. You did not specify the type of animation. Stop motion? Flat drawing? 3D? Mechinima? The link in the signature takes you to the top of the website, which has a news thread, but this is the Table of Contents, which would be more useful to you: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/2.html
Ok, that would exclude true 'stop action' films. (I have a few fake 'stop action' fan films that are computer-made, though.)
I confess I don't assume everyone who comes to this board knows as much as the professional Hollywood types who hang out here... like you. You may know him and know he works for Dreamworks, but for all I know he's as clueless as I was when I saw Star Trek: Intrepid in May of 2009 and got excited about fan films. Granted, my goal was just to view more of them, and what I got excited about was finding and viewing them, and sharing my work finding and viewing them so that fellow viewers wouldn't have to spend so much time hunting. I did not consider making them. However, when I show them to my more creative friends, they have tended to jump to wanting to make them. Thanks in part to this board, I encouraged them read a lot about what's involved and have talked them into either assisting somebody else before striking out on their own or letting go of their unworkable ideas. But as obvious as it may be to you, I assure you that the average Joe doesn't have a clue how much goes into these films.
Like I said, he may work for Dreamworks, but he could also be an employee of the NYPD... or McDonald's. At worst, I'm being dumb, offering information to a creative genius who needs none. But if he's a more average Trek fan, looking at what others are doing can be very useful.
These guys do CGI only films: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/203.html . I have no idea if any of them would be willing to work on his film(s). It has already be stated by others that he is starting out with very grand ideas. This leads me to believe he may not know what he is doing... just as I had no idea in 2009 that the little website that I thought would eventually have links to all 50 or 100 Star Trek Fan Films in one place would eventually have so many links the prospect of counting them totally intimidates me. (Star Trek Reviewed fans tell me there are THOUSANDS of fan films on the website. I have no clue if this is true, I haven't counted them in years. Last time the number was over 400, and I've added the whole Go!Animate sub-website since then, and dozens and dozens of other films.).
I do realize I am a complete idiot compared to most of the regular posters here with regard to film making. No contest. Not even a shadow of a contest. That's part of why I've incorporated some of your threads in a new section for filmmakers, Part I here: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/249.html
You are right that he has specific ideas, and all of my links could be useless. But in my experience following those who aren't professional film makers who try to do this, they are often unaware of where others have already gone.
And then there are those who work for professional animation studios... which for all I know, he may do...
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