All the post was done with the Adobe production package that I already had, on the computer I already owned.  I did use funds from the production budget to upgrade my Adobe suite to the then-latest CS3 package, but that was the only VFX expense in terms of actual money used from the budget.

... and now I know where College Humour film Troopers!

This was hands down my favorite episode of the Intermission. I love hearing honest behind the scenes stories like this, as opposed to the documentaries and commentaries you get on new releases where everybody was great friends and every aspect of the film is amazing. I haven't seen Ark since it was released, but I'll have to check it out again after hearing all this. I don't remember ever noticing any green screen shots beyond the obvious, "that couldn't have been done any other way," kind of stuff.

Definitely hope you guys do more episodes like this. Any chance Dorkman could do one about The Descendants? I read the stuff he posted on his blog, but I think it'd be fascinating to hear more detail there. Although as I recall he maybe had to remove a post about it from his blog or something? So maybe that isn't possible.

Since its on Hulu, could you do a DIF commentary on it? It might encourage more people to watch it.  You could tell stories during commercial breaks.  It would make a crazy cool double feature with Dr. Horrible. Call it "things that happened in 2008"

to answer your question Teague, yes I enjoyed this episode.  I also went to hulu right after listening to it and watched all of Ark.  Never saw it before now.  I gotta say Trey, Ark held my interest throughout all nine episodes.  Very well done good sir!  I can't wait for the DVD set.  I want to watch them without the commercials in between.  Give me one big ass long commercial to watch at the head of the series.  That way I can watch all 9 episodes back to back w/o commercials!

I haven't seen The Ark.

I've heard it melts your face...