What's Your Motivation?

[FalTorPan]

This question is for everyone who has contributed to a fan film -- Trek or otherwise.

What is your motivation? Why do it?

This is not a negative question. I'd just like to know what drives you to want to make fan films.

Thanks! I look forward to your replies.

 

[USS Intrepid]

Quite simply, I enjoy it. Nothing more complex than that.

 

[T J]

I think the guys at Exeter's motivation is trying to outlast us.

 

[Maurice]

In my case, it was the opportunity to write something in a dramatic style (60s TV drama) that's a bit out of vogue. It was also fun to design new control panels and readouts that suited the needs of the stories and also fit invisibly into the TOS bridge set esthetic (Mr. Cutty's Weapons and Defense station). This for "Exeter", of course.

 

[doubleohfive]

To tell a good story.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Because I enjoy it enormously as a creative thing.

 

[Kail]

I'm helping to produce the animated Farragut episodes for several reasons, I do it first of all for the fun of it, and two because I need the artistic release. I've done theater, played in bands, and done writing of all kinds, and I need to do SOMETHING artistic to be happy. I get a kick out of entertaining, and this is a unique way to do that.

 

[Wowbagger]

Originally? It was a mad plan to boost RPG recruitment numbers for us.

Now? Because I can't seem to stop, despite all the perfectly rational reasons to live without the stress. It's fun!

 

[TRP]

What James Cawley has created (and re-created) is very special and I wanted to add my particular expertise to the mix. Besides, when I was a kid, I played Star Trek and only dreamed to be in the settings Phase II has so lovingly wrought. It took me becoming an adult to play Star Trek the way I dreamed when I was a boy. Plus, who doesn't want to play Star Trek when you can play with the people who were in Star Trek (Walter, George, Denise, Nichelle, JG, Garrett, etc.)?

--R

 

[Kail]

Oh, I forgot, the chicks. Chicks love a guy who sits at his computer for hours at a time drawing frame after frame of animation. Drives 'em wild!

 

[NEO f/x]

Oh, I forgot, the chicks. Chicks love a guy who sits at his computer for hours at a time drawing frame after frame of animation. Drives 'em wild!

Really? Cool...I should look out my window to see where my adoring fans are

I know, as a participant in OGAM, Exeter, Farragut, and other Treks that haven't even been released, it is something about working on Trek. I know I got into visual effects because of shows like Star Trek, BSG, and Star Wars...just something about the possibility of adding to the Trek universe in some small way.