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Did you enjoy this? Should we do more? (Not just Trey's stories, and not necessarily an hour and a half long. Some projects don't take four years. 
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One question I have for Trey actually. When you're working on a project like this where it's very visual effects heavy, but you're doing all the VFX yourself, are the software licences and all the costs within, part of that overall budget you had? Or did you have to supply it all yourself? Just how did that whole process work?
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.
I'll be waiting for Ark here in Finland..
Or may be I just should ask someone here who wants to show it here.. Hmm.. I have few ideas, but it will require some demo I guess..
... and now I know where College Humour film Troopers!
Raiders of the Almost Lost ARK!
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.
^^^ What he said. I absolutely love the idea of explaining a project from start to finish, and all the difficulties encountered along the way (part of why I love commentary's where its a movie Trey worked on). This is the best episode of the intermission to date.
Great episode guys. Listened to it on the way to and back from an interview, and immediately went to Hulu and re-watched Ark when I got home.
I'm totally in favor of these "making of" episodes.
For that matter I'd be in favor of a whole "Story Time with Trey Stokes" podcast; Trey's got a story for seemingly anything.
For that matter I'd be in favor of a whole "Story Time with Trey Stokes" podcast; Trey's got a story for seemingly anything.
Can Uncle Trey read us 3 little pigs before bed! 
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"
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Here's a link to Content Media's page on Ark. Get to writing those e-mails people.
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!
So that's why they call him "The Amazing."
"Hey, Mike, did you see Ark?" I couldn't stop laughing.
These shows are fun. My one complaint about length is that I think the focus on making them multiples of thirty minutes is misplaced.
On a side note, this is one of the few episodes I've listened to, and I've heard every DiF, while sitting at my computer. I finally found a replacement for the job that paid my bills for the past few years, where the only good thing was that I could listen to podcasts (and sometimes hide in the back and leave comments from my phone). Then a couple weeks ago, my new job decided they couldn't pay me any more, so I'm pulling a Stephen King. I'm at the desk writing from 9 to 5. I have money until I don't have money, and when people pay me for writing, I get further from needing a "real" job again.
Today was listening to podcasts while designing the cover of the book I started four years ago, and even I say damn, Trey. You crazy.
"Hey, Mike, did you see Ark?" I couldn't stop laughing.
For the record I have seen Ark since this recording and I liked it a lot.
I'm at the desk writing from 9 to 5
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Today was listening to podcasts while designing the cover of the book I started four years ago
For your own sake I'm going to be a dickhead and point out that this is not writing.
For your own sake I'm going to be a dickhead and point out that this is not writing.
Thanks for the heads up. I wish it wasn't so important, and that words alone could present the story that I want to tell, but books are judged by their cover, so I'm just going to skip ahead... Hitler.
+1
Aaaaand like.
Since its on Hulu, could you do a DIF commentary on it? It might encourage more people to watch it.
Seconded.
I actually have done a commentary track for Ark, it's on the screener dvd's we give out, along with other special-feature-y extras.
But there are many reasons why a DiF commentary wouldn't work for Ark - primarily, it's US-only so not all our listeners could see it. And if we did, we'd have to do nine un-pauses within the track.
Besides, Ark's problem isn't needing more people to watch it, we've got lots of those. What we need now is more Ark.
Well, as an adoring fan, I'm on record as saying I want it. And now this DVD screener is like the Stolz BTTF footage.
But there are many reasons why a DiF commentary wouldn't work for Ark - primarily, it's US-only so not all our listeners could see it.
And as a fan of both Sci-Fi and Trey, this is very annoying. I want to see it and I refuse to do so illegally. I just have to have patience, I just hope I don't think it's shite after waiting so long to see it* 
*I doubt it
I haven't seen The Ark.
I've heard it melts your face...
"Steven Spielberg wants me to do RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and someone brings the script from Hollywood to Paris. But as much as I think that Spielberg is the best director America has to offer, the screenplay is the same tired old shit." - Klaus Kinski
That quote is hilarious until you think that Kinski would have been playing the Nazi officer, and being a reckless German maniac really was the same tired old shit for Kinski.
There was a debate early in the commentary about whether Hulu is available in Canada and I can confirm that it is not. They've been "working on it" for ages.
However, I hear that this post can be read internationally. Just sayin'.
There was a debate early in the commentary about whether Hulu is available in Canada and I can confirm that it is not. They've been "working on it" for ages.
No doubt in part because of the dreaded Canadian Content requirement, a policy which many other countries have as well. Just one of the many reasons that makes distributing US shows more complicated than the Internet Kidz think.
There's an American content rule of sorts as well: it's that Americans don't care what other countries watch on TV. We're not aware that other countries HAVE tv, except Doctor Who which is shot on location in United British Kingdomland, near France.
However, I hear that this post can be read internationally. Just sayin'.
This is true.
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