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I've been thinking a bit more about the Space Opera side-project. Although I expected to have to leave this for a few months while I'm completing a consultancy project instead, I've found my mind playing around with a few ideas.

Partly, I've been trying to figure out how possible is it? It's the sheer technical scale that causes the problems. Set design, costume design, modelling, animation and then having enough computer power to render and edit it. All that's without thinking of the more major issues of plot, characters, etc.

And then I saw Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. Ignore the fact that it's a parody and a fan film of Star Trek and Babylon 5. Look at the production qualities. Not perfect but incredibly good for a budget movie. I said not perfect, but actually they're better than a lot of sci-fi Space Operas that have tried appearing on our tv screens. This is from a small team over 7 years. I'm very impressed. The kit used wasn't brilliant, they used similar ideas to what I've been thinking about with large durable greenscreen/bluescreen and DIY worklamps and yet they still made a feature-length movie. I'm still impressed.

I'm looking forward to Iron Sky for that the fact that they've learned more, it's not a parody and it's not a fan film.

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