Two empires must resolve a territory dispute or be the cause a galaxy-scale war.

40 min, PG-13, 1.66:1, Animated ©2018 James Bradford Huston all rights reserved.

Making this movie was quite a journey. Never thought writing a book would lead me to pursue a live action scifi movie. That in turn was to expensive at $1000 per/minute I had to switch gears. I started with Pixar-style animation and released some episodic examples. Neither test audiences nor myself were thrilled by the early animation. I shifted gears again and got inspired by Final Fantasy The Spirits Within as well as many of the other narrate full cgi Resident Evil films or Tintin or even some of the immersive narrative games like Detroit Becoming Human. Full computer animation showed amazing potential in my early tests, but it was like going back to school when I needed to learn various technical things for converting models for compatibility in 3d programs, dealing with motion capture, lip sinc, facial capture. I spent a lot of time and money on motion capture only to fall back on some simple cheap tools. In the end I not only finished a full movie I could be proud of but I laid the ground work for several other projects that I could do better, quicker, and with much tighter budgets. Thank you everyone for taking the time to watch the film, read all this commentary, and well I guess that's all :) Please subscribe here on Newgrounds and/or on my Youtube channel.

Easter Egg Bonus “I SPY”

I spy with my little eye…

A method for combating gods intent on Earth realm doomsday,

Aki Ross, Gendo, a scene from Doomsday,

An old rectangular digital communication

William Shatner saying “refrain from communication”

Obnoxious award, War on Mars

Ugh yeah MS3K reference,

and something for cats

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