TAS-style Movie-era Illustrations?

[Kaiser]

Awesome TMP era update of the TAS there

 

[B.J.]

We're still missing Chekov; that character will be the biggest challenge, since he was absent from TAS. Would also be interesting to see Ilia and Decker in animated form as well.

The TAS fan website has a pretty good animated Chekov (now a Lieutenant/Security guard). Maybe they'd be willing to send over a model sheet if asked.

That's Kail's website. He posts here often.

 

[Lance]

Some basic pencil sketches of Chekov were in fact done by Filmation during the pre-production of TAS, and these were included in the Reeves-Steven's book The Art of Star Trek. As far as I know they never went as far as doing an actual animation model for Chekov, but they were clearly looking at the option at some early point.

 

[Kail]

Security Chief Chekov is a regular character in my series of TAS comics.

 

[Kail]

The daily Star Trek comic strip from the 80's is probably as close to movie era TAS we've gotten.

 

[B.J.]

The daily Star Trek comic strip from the 80's is probably as close to movie era TAS we've gotten.

I have honestly never heard about this before! Obviously my then-local paper didn't run the strip.

 

[Christopher]

^Not that long ago, the newspaper strips were collected in a couple of hardcover volumes from IDW Comics.

 

[Redfern]

Though I don't think the paper ran the strip, the "Tallahassee Democrat" used that particular image when it reported an account about a local station affiliate accidentally airing a French dubbed version of "The Apple". Someone on staff omitted the original text and rewrote it to have Spock ask, "Captain, do you speak French?" Kirk replies, "Only when I'm shown on WCTV."

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Nightowl1701]

Kail, would you be interested in dipping your toe into the water here? Donny's doing a great job of creating virtual TMP sets over on his thread. Combine that with your character art and other artists' CG model work and I think we'd have something really nifty going esp. with the 50th coming up. Nothing against your TAS comics at all, they are excellent, but it might make a nice refreshing change to try a TNAS one-off at least.

 

[Kail]

Nightowl1701, if Donny was on board making cartoon style renders for backgrounds, and I had a story I liked, I'd be up for a movie era comic.

 

[Nightowl1701]