The USS Aurora is ready to leave dock!

This ambitious fanfilm series is one of the first of its kind. It's a four part series done completely in CG. The Aurora takes to the stars between the original series and the Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The story revolves around a group of merchanteers, just trying to make their way in the universe. To quote the creator:

...the many civilians that Kirk's Enterprise encountered in the original series: as a kid, I would see these jumpsuit-clad people on this planet or that station and wonder more about their stories. It seemed to me that you'd have to be almost as courageous as the Enterprise crew to leave Earth behind and put yourself out there in that very same unpredicable and sometimes hostile galaxy–but without a heavily armed starship at your disposal!

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The nominations for the 2005 "Mackies" have been announced. From their website" ...

On Saturday, November 12, 2005, the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences will present the 2005 Machinima Film Festival - a full-day of Machinima (animated filmmaking using 3D video game technologies), taking place at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens (NY).

The one-day event will include screenings of Machinima films, special presentations, talks with award-winning independent filmmakers and seminars about Machinima production techniques.

Congratulations to Geoffrey James' Borg Wars for his two nominations in "Best Technical Achievement" and "Best Series." Wadidayetellya? They're good, man! Look at the competition in best series though - "Red Vs. Blue"! Everyone's heard of that!

Geoff, reports that Part Five is coming along nicely and will almost certainly be released by year's end. | Discuss your opinions of the Mackies and the nominations in the Forum
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The wonderfully hilarious parody series Stone Trek is taking a leave to the backburner. In a posting on his site, Brian Matthews says the following:

Some of you visiting this site have been doing so for quite a while, and are certainly wondering when there is going to be a new episode of STONE TREK. Good question. I have been without a computer for a while, and as a result I have not been able to work on anything, even my new animation projects, which were putting production of STONE TREK on the back burner anyway.

This news might not be welcome to the vast majority of you out there, especially the ones who have been onboard since the beginning and rabidly await a new entry into the STONE TREK mythos. It is indeed true that I have in some state of production a new episode of STONE TREK, but I have been itching to do some other stuff, and now that I am back computer-wise I want to continue to work on these new projects.

This isn't to say that Stone Trek has been canned, but any new episode releases are in the "indefinite" range. For anyone who might be unfamiliar with the Stone Trek series, it's basically an animated take-off of Star Trek meets The Flintstones, complete with 1960's style laugh tracks, goofy animations, and a starship that runs on a particularly temperamental volcano for a warp core. There are currently 9 Episodes, from "The Deadly Ears - Part 1" to "Marooned On Tattooine - Part 2." The animation is artfully done and the comedy is great, almost enough to make you think this show was actually made as a collaboration between Paramount Pictures and Hanna Barbara. | Discuss this item on the forums

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Sean Bartlett offers an extremely well-done Star Wars fan animation titled "Grape Scented." I don't exaggerate in the slightest when I say this is the best fanfilm animation I have ever seen. The production is extremely high quality, the animation is clean and professional, and the storyline is amusing. Not to mention that the "hero" reminds me of one of my high-school buddies. It clocks in at a slender 3 minutes 11 seconds and 26 megabytes and is well worth the download.

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