I am happy to report that I was not run down by a bus or kidnapped by aliens, but I do apologize for the lack of updates over the holiday season. Truth be told, I think I just managed to burn myself out and I’ve been trying to get myself back into things.
Unfortunately, The Wannabe Pirates will be on a hiatus for awhile.
But on the plus side, I’ll be doing this!
“Amutt Time” is a parody of the classic episode “Amok Time” and something I’ve wanted to do for a VERY long time.
Back in 1995, in the early days of the web, I had a Star Trek fan site called “Largent’s No New Trek Page,” a loving tribute to the Original Series. In 1996, I wondered if it would be possible to do an animated Star Trek parody. This was before the days of Flash, but I was thinking it might be possible to do on the computer. I ended up compromising and doing it as a sort of webcomic on my fan page. It was static, but I did have a couple of animated GIFs. I ended up abandoning the project before it was done, but returned to the idea around 2000. At this point, McCrary and I were selling digital PDF versions of Greyhawk and another comic called Harbinger via a site called InfoPost. I completed a comic book version of Amutt Time to sell there. InfoPost went out of business when the bubble burst and I let it go again. Over the years, I toyed with doing it as a Flash animation, but never made any strides. In 2004, I bought a copy of Animation:Master, a 3D animation application with the idea of doing it in 3D. Unfortunately, I was too impatient at the time, became frustrated with trying to learn 3D and abandoned it again. In early 2007, I once again decided to give 3D a try and this time was more committed to learning. I was finally making some progress on Amutt Time, but I was still too green and there was so much to learn. In September of 2007, I came up with the idea of putting Amutt Time on hold while I tackled a less difficult project. I thought it would be fun to do a short animated sequel to the home movie McCrary had made. This would be really easy, probably only take a few months and then I could get back to Amutt Time. Well, as we all know, The Wannabe Pirates turned out to be a much, much longer project. And now, almost 4 1/2 years later, I’ve decided to put The Wannabe Pirates on hold and finally do Amutt Time!
I’ve left myself a very limited amount of time to do this in, so it’s going to be a tremendous amount of work, but I’m excited about it and the progress I’ve made just in the first week of starting has been incredible. If all goes to plan, Stalled Trek will be a webseries and the first “season” will be ten episodes long. The first five making up a parody of “Amok Time” and the next five making up a parody of “Balance of Terror.”
I will be buried up to my eyeballs in this for the next few months, but I’ll keep you updated on my progress and let you know when it’s up!
I hope each an everyone of you have a great year …and I’m sure that the siren call of Flemm’s adventures will be heard again!
