General / Off-Topic My 'Cheesy Space Film teaser'

[JonesTheFilm]

First off, I admit it's not really a teaser in the sense that there's likely to be a full movie coming anytime soon.

This is a little educational project I set myself a couple of weeks ago to improve some of my existing skills and attempt a couple of new things.
I work in the film & TV industry as a freelance animator (that's where my CMDR name comes from) and, although I have done some professional 3D animation in the past, the vast majority of my work in recent years has been 2D kids shows for television so the 3D stuff has been relegated to hobby status.

It's very short and simple, but I thought I'd post it on here because there are spaceships in it and spaceships are quite popular here.

 

[Hooplah]

Greetings,

I always wanted to win the lottery then produce an Elite full length movie based on 'The Dark Wheel' (c1984) by Robert Holdstack. It was a simple story to provide the ambiance to the new Elite game released in 1984. Even Robert wouldn't consider it serious writing but it worked with players flying around with today considered primitive computer graphics and inspiring our imaginations.

The story line of Star Wars: A New Hope released in 1977 wasn't Shakespeare either but inspired global imaginations.

2021 it's going to need improvement easily accomplished with great screenplay writers and Frontier showing us what a Thargoid looks like before the writers do it for them. I'm surprised that with the awesome cameras in ED a few hi-tech players in wings haven't tried to put together a few scenes. Then maybe they were not there in 1984 to get inspired. Maybe some did and I missed them on YouTube. Let me know.

Meanwhile I'm still working on the lottery. I only missed it by 4 numbers the last time!

Regards

 

[JonesTheFilm]

There are some good YouTubers who make scripted animated ED content, Turjan Starstone is one that springs to mind but there are are others. I'd like to eventually do something along those lines too but I think it would take me a while to complete something as involved as they do.

Time is more the issue for me than cost really, none of the software I use cost me anything, Blender (open source) for the visuals, Garageband (included in my Macbook's OS) for the music, and Shotcut (open source) for the editing.

 

[Craith]

My creative juices ended at trying to synchronise SRV scenes with "Dune Buggy" from Oliver Onions - recreating the Bud Spencer scene with their buggy. Never made it far.