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Date the below entry was originally posted \u2013 June 25, 2016. \u00a0If you don\u2019t know why the old copy was lost, check this post: \u00a0Website Port and SSL upgrade completed<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ONE OF THE THINGS I\u2019VE BEEN QUIETLY WORKING ON, IS READYING MY MASSIVE TROVE OF OLD VIDEOS FOR INTERNET RELEASE. THAT INCLUDES THE OLD \u2018HOUSE TREK\u2019 VIDEOS I MADE OVER A DECADE AGO (2001-2004)<\/p>\n

House Trek old sci-fi videos, House Trek, remastered.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To be clear \u2013 the closest this comes to a fan film is the word \u2018Trek\u2019 and the fact that it\u2019s in outer space. While I drew inspiration from a certain TV show, there is a major effort in the online release to avoid anything remotely resembling copyright infringement. I\u2019m also often asked if Chris Van Allsburg\u2019s work inspired this silliness. No, no it didn\u2019t. This was inspired by my love of sci-fi as a young teen and I thinkthe reason I shot the videos inside my home was because I had no budget for a sci-fi set and I couldn\u2019t really drive anywhere else. (Like the original \u2018Send in the Clones\u2019, It\u2019s all in my house and I\u2019m the only actor because my sisters wouldn\u2019t be caught dead in my early videos, and nobody else wanted to be in them either.) So part of the goofball charm of the old videos is the way I childishly disregard science with sounds in space, no spacesuit on spacewalks, no obvious visible source of propulsion, and of course I\u2019m using old computers from the early 2000s as my navigation system, and wearing sweatpants and walking around barefoot. It\u2019s incredibly dumb and the fact that I\u2019m redoing about half the VFX and almost all the audio doesn\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n

So this blog entry is the start of a series of occasional blog entries about my adventures in indie video production. The first three House Trek videos and Send in The Clones 1, were all made in 2001, shot on crappy tape-based camcorders, and marked the start of my infamy as a video\/vfx nut. Back then I was using Bryce 3d and AlamDV2 as my VFX tools. Now I use Lightwave & After Effects, among other high-end programs, and can do far better work. So for online release I\u2019m enhancing or replacing over 60 VFX shots in the six House Trek videos, creating a 9-second intro title sequence that kicks off each video, and restructuring the audio completely. The stock audio is the main cost here. I used some sci-fi movie soundtracks originally but clearly I can\u2019t license any of that for online release without getting sued so I\u2019ve swapped out all the music.<\/p>\n

The new stuff is actually pretty good and licensing the stock music\/SFX I needed was only around $30. Obviously this is only a tiny piece of a very long list of 80-odd videos made in the past 15 years so the process of getting them all recut, or as Minhthien says, \u201cGeorge Lucas-ing them\u201d will cost hundreds of dollars. That doesn\u2019t even consider the cost of the new video projects (which include a follow-up to this old series, \u201cHouse Trek: The Next Generation\u201d) or my video game projects.<\/p>\n

It also doesn\u2019t consider the time involved. I wish this blog were a huge hit, and the shop too, because then I\u2019d be able to finish all the stuff I\u2019d like to finish. There have been a hundred or so viewers here since I launched it just 3 days ago, which is great, but I would like to see this go even bigger. I want this blog to go viral, but it won\u2019t happen without great content, and the great content won\u2019t happen at a fast enough pace without an audience of roughly 12,000 regular viewers to support it, and what I have is a rotating batch of maybe 5000 regular viewers, who get bored and drift away as fast as new ones arrive. So we\u2019re kind of stuck here in a slow-moving rut. I\u2019m hopeful that things will improve, though, after the release of Spiral Skies. Which, sadly, is taking far longer than I\u2019d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date the below entry was originally posted \u2013 June 25, 2016. \u00a0If you don\u2019t know why the old copy was lost, check this post: \u00a0Website Port and SSL upgrade completed ONE OF THE THINGS I\u2019VE BEEN QUIETLY WORKING ON, IS READYING MY MASSIVE TROVE OF OLD VIDEOS FOR INTERNET RELEASE. THAT INCLUDES THE OLD \u2018HOUSE … Continue reading “The first videos on Triumphant Artists.com\u2026”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[64,63,61,57,58,62,59,60],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hornbostelproductions.com\/wordpress-hornbostelproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}