Sun, 28 March 2010
Sea of Stars: Episode Four


“Ambush At Jupiter!”


Credits and Notes

Episode Four is probably my favorite in the first season. It's got it all, introspection, human drama, a flashback and of course, the WAVE MOTION GUN!
We had a small fighter battle in Episode One, a minor space battle in Episode Two, but this is the first beat-down drag-out fight of the series.  Battles are fun to write, to mix and (let's face it) this is a WAR story so they're kind of inevitable. If this story had no battles, it'd be Star Trek. (rimshot)
One of the hardest things about producing this series, has been finding clean, iconic sound effects. You can't just simply record the build up to firing the WMG at the floating continent in the anime and use it here, you have to clean off the dialog. That's a long and laborious process let me tell you.  The Wave Gun sequence took me the better part of a week to clean up... and then after I was done, I found a collection of Yamato sound effects on Youtube that was clean as a whistle. Head, meet desk.
This Episode is dedicated to Mr. Tim Eldred. Tim is the creator of the “Star Blazers Rebirth” and “Bolar Wars: Extended” webcomics as well as the artist on the short-lived Star Blazers comic/magazine from the 90's. His work has served as inspiration for this series, and rekindled my love of Leiji Matsumoto's work in manga and anime.
-Dev

CREW
Sea of Stars is written, produced and directed by Devin Cox, of Forward Momentum Productions.

CAST (in order of appearance)
Narrator: Mark “The ENCaffinated ONE” Kilfoil
Jordan “Jordy” Venture: Dave Frizzell
Pops McClendon: Devlin James
Captain Derek Wildstar: Joe Harrison
Mei Gideon: Silas Carder
Joachin Reyes: Nathan Butler
Sam Vandom: Philippa Ballantine
Hans Schneider: Zach McCue
Mac Stevens: Emry Kinney
Michael Vega: Sean Hill
Neville Drake: Scott Breakall
Colonel Nasca: Andre de Almeida
Most Holy Xavier: Nathan Butler
Colin O'Donnell: Jim Perry
Philippe de LaRoche: Allan Smithee

MUSIC:
All music in the series is drawn from several commercially released CDs of music from the original animated series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato.” Many of the CDS have long since gone out of print, though some may still be importable through Amazon.com. 

SOUND EFFECTS:
All the sound effects for Sea of Stars come from one of three sources: The original series DVDs available through Voyager Entertainment at Starblazers.com, The “Sound Fantasia Yamato” CDs which are now out of print, and The Freesound Project, at freesound.org.

((DISCLAIMER:  Sea of Stars is a non-profit fan production, produced for the enjoyment of the fans. All rights to “Star Blazers”, “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” or any other copyrighted materials herein, including any unoriginal music and sound effects, are reserved to their ORIGINAL CREATORS. No infringing claims are intended))


PROMOS (No audio promos this week to save memory, but here's the list so far) 

The Adventures of Indiana Jim
http://podcast.indianajim.net/

The Weird Show
http://theweirdshow.com/

Star Wars Fanworks
http://www.starwarsfanworks.com/

The Anomally Podcast
http://www.anomalypodcast.com/


Star Trek: Outpost - Episode 12 – Slips, Strips, Bars and Bricks
http://www.giantgnome.com

See you at Episode Five!
-Dev

Direct download: SOS-04.mp3
Category:Sea of Stars -- posted at: 3:44 AM

Sun, 21 March 2010
Sea of Stars: Episode Three

 “Prisms Of View”

Credits and Notes

The Homeguard is a security force drawn from native Earth men and women. Tasked by the Comet Empire with maintaining peace on Earth and overseen by Imperial troops, they are despised by both sides of the conflict.
When the Argo left Earth on it's mission to save humanity, nearly the entire Homeguard contingent left the moon base in thirty-four Tiger class Astrofighters and joined the Star Force. How these new “Black Tigers” will be seen by the rest of the crew is unknown, but tensions will run very high, and it will turn very, very ugly before it clears... if it ever does.
Episode Three is dedicated to Jim Butcher, author of the urban-fantasy series “The Dresden Files” and the fantasy “Codex Alera” series. Jim earned my dedication and respect not just for his awesome characterization, but because anybody who can take the ideas of a”lost Roman legion” and “Pokemon” and combine them into a multi-novel series is truly a force to be reckoned with.
-Dev

CREW
Sea of Stars is written, produced and directed by Devin Cox, of Forward Momentum Productions.

CAST (in order of appearance)
Narrator: Mark “The ENCaffinated ONE” Kilfoil
Mei Gideon: Silas Carder
Philippe de LaRoche: Allan Smithee
Crewman A: Devin Cox
Captain Derek Wildstar: Joe Harrison
Michael Vega: Sean Hill
Neville Drake: Scott Breakall
Colin O'Donnell: Jim Perry
Hans Schneider: Zach McCue
Joachin Reyes: Nathan P.  Butler
Jordan “Jordy” Venture: Dave Frizzell
Sam Vandom: Philippa Ballantine
Mac Stevens: Emry Kinney
Major Berit's Aide: Eric Olp
Major Berit: Ducky Patterson
Colonel Nasca: Andre de Almeida
Most Holy Xavier: Nathan P. Butler
IQ-9: Jonathan Edward Dolnier (aka Pokejedservo)
Pops McClendon: Devlin James

MUSIC:
All music in the series is drawn from several commercially released CDs of music from the original animated series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato.” Many of the CDS have long since gone out of print, though some may still be importable through Amazon.com. 

SOUND EFFECTS:
All the sound effects for Sea of Stars come from one of three sources: The original series DVDs available through Voyager Entertainment at Starblazers.com, The “Sound Fantasia Yamato” CDs which are now out of print, and The Freesound Project, at freesound.org.

((DISCLAIMER:  Sea of Stars is a non-profit fan production, produced for the enjoyment of the fans. All rights to “Star Blazers”, “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” or any other copyrighted materials herein, including any unoriginal music and sound effects, are reserved to their ORIGINAL CREATORS. No infringing claims are intended))

PROMOS:
Star Wars Fanworks
http://www.starwarsfanworks.com/

The Anomally Podcast
http://www.anomalypodcast.com/

Star Trek: Outpost - Episode 12 – Slips, Strips, Bars and Bricks
http://www.giantgnome.com

See you at Episode Four!
-Dev

Direct download: SOS-03.mp3
Category:Sea of Stars -- posted at: 4:02 AM

Sun, 14 March 2010
Sea of Stars: Episode Two

 “Argo Lifts Off Into A New Dawn”

Credits and Notes

Episode two sees the rest of the new “Star Force” characters arriving. We get to meet Mac, Colin, Hans and... Jordy Venture, all grow'd up! We also get a hint, just a tease really, about what happened to the rest of the Argo's original crew. The whole story will be forthcoming, I hate loose plot ends, but for now... well, let's just say there's a reason Wildstar looks like he's twenty years older than he is.

We also get to begin a major plot arc for this season of the show, the distrust of the Black Tigers. The idea of the crew being unsure of their shipmates is a major theme in this first arc, and one that provides some interesting insights into the crew's personalities before it's finally resolved.

This episode is dedicated to J. Michael Straczynski because much of his writing (especially his television work, such as Babylon 5) has influenced the nuts and bolts of how I write. Writing a novel is one thing, writing a script for audio or visual media is quite another. The entire “Mac and Colin first meet” scene is, I admit it, an ode to B5.

-Dev

 

CREW

Sea of Stars is written, produced and directed by Devin Cox, of Forward Momentum Productions.

 

CAST (in order of appearance)

Narrator: Mark “The ENCaffinated ONE” Kilfoil

General Wendy Singleton: Melissa D. Johnson (aka Mippa)

Captain Derek Wildstar: Joe Harrison

Jordan “Jordy” Venture: Dave Frizzell

Hans Schneider: Zach McCue

Colin O'Donnell: Jim Perry

Mac Stevens: Emry Kinney

Major Berit's Aide: Eric Olp

Major Berit: Ducky Patterson

Colonel Nasca: Andre de Almeida

Michael Vega: Sean Hill

Neville Drake: Scott Breakall

Sam Vandom: Philippa Ballantine

Joachin Reyes: Nathan Butler

IQ-9: Jonathan Edward Dolnier (aka Pokejedservo)

Pops McClendon: Devlin James

Little Girl: Raye Perry

Girl's Father: Jason Ramboz

Mei Gideon: Silas Carder

 

MUSIC:

All music in the series is drawn from several commercially released CDs of music from the original animated series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato.” Many of the CDS have long since gone out of print, though some may still be importable through Amazon.com.

 

SOUND EFFECTS:

All the sound effects for Sea of Stars come from one of three sources: The original series DVDs available through Voyager Entertainment at Starblazers.com, The “Sound Fantasia Yamato” CDs which are now out of print, and The Freesound Project, at freesound.org.

 

((DISCLAIMER: Sea of Stars is a non-profit fan production, produced for the enjoyment of the fans. All rights to “Star Blazers”, “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” or any other copyrighted materials herein, including any unoriginal music and sound effects, are reserved to their ORIGINAL CREATORS. No infringing claims are intended))

 

LINKS:

Our site:

http://forwardmomentumproductions.com/

 

Voyager Entertainment:

http://www.starblazers.com

 

Voice Acting Alliance:

http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/index.php

 

PROMOS:

Anomaly

http://www.anomalypodcast.com/

 

The Adventures of Indiana Jim

http://podcast.indianajim.net/

 

The Weird Show

http://theweirdshow.com/

 

 

See you at Episode Three!

-Dev

 

 

Direct download: SOS-02.mp3
Category:Sea of Stars -- posted at: 4:01 AM

Sun, 7 March 2010
Sea of Stars: Episode One

Credits and Notes

 

The story opens with the Earth having already been conquered by a foe from their recent past.

 

In 2202, our sector of space was invaded by a rampaging war machine known as the Comet Empire. The invaders were led by the power-mad Prince Zordar. After a long, hard-fought battle, the invaders were finally defeated and Zordar was killed.

 

...But Zordar was only a PRINCE after all...

 

After a ten-year silence, the Empire returned and conquered Earth as easily as a giant would swat a fly. For five years since then, they have sucked our world dry of all resources.

 

The Earth Defense Forces were crushed beneath the Imperial boot. Only a few smaller ships survived the titanic final battle, and they were forced to flee the Solar system. On earth herself, a small resistance has formed. Maybe three hundred brave souls stand for the billions of mankind, against all the might of the Comet Empire.

Until a new danger looms...

 

----------

 

Sea of Stars has been a labor of love for me for over three years. Wow, just thinking about how much time it has taken to bring this story to release is kind of daunting. It would never have been possible without the efforts of a diverse group of friends and comrades who not only worked hard to get this brought together, they kicked my butt every time I started to lag behind. Thanks folks, This wouldn't have happened without you.

 

The characters of this story have grown and changed over the nearly three years it took to get this production to fruition. They are, to me at least, living breathing people in some other alternate version of our world. They are on their own journey out of despair and into a future still unknown...literally, I'm still writing the concluding episode of the final season. They are flawed, because humans in general are flawed. They are not the single-note cardboard cutout people that populate much of western AND eastern science fiction, but nor are they open books. They all have their secrets, and exploring them is where the fun really is.

 

Welcome to our world. We hope you'll enjoy the ride.

-Dev

 

CREW

Sea of Stars is written, produced and directed by Devin Cox, of Forward Momentum Productions.

 

CAST (in order of appearance)

 

Narrator: Mark “The ENCaffinated ONE” Kilfoil

Alpha One (Richard Vega): Jonathan Edward Dolnier (aka Pokejedservo)

Alpha Three: Jim Perry

Alpha Six: Andre de Almeida

Transport: Devin Cox

Comet Empire Cargo Captain: Dave Frizzell

Comet Empire Sensor Tech One: Eric Olp

Comet Empire Sensor Tech Two: Devlin James

Alpha Four: Lisa Wong

Neville Drake: Scott Breakall

Michael Vega: Sean Hill

Sam Vandom: Philippa Ballantine

General Wendy Singleton: Melissa D. Johnson (aka Mippa)

Colonel Derek Wildstar: Joe Harrison

Joachin Reyes: Nathan Butler

EDF Tech 1: Devin Cox

 

MUSIC:

All music in the series is drawn from several commercially released CDs of music from the original animated series “Uchuu Senkan Yamato.” Many of the CDS have long since gone out of print, though some may still be importable through Amazon.com.

 

SOUND EFFECTS:

All the sound effects for Sea of Stars come from one of three sources: The original series DVDs available through Voyager Entertainment at Starblazers.com, The “Sound Fantasia Yamato” CDs which are now out of print, and The Freesound Project, at freesound.org.

 

((DISCLAIMER: Sea of Stars is a non-profit fan production, produced for the enjoyment of the fans. All rights to “Star Blazers”, “Uchuu Senkan Yamato” or any other copyrighted materials herein, including any unoriginal music and sound effects, are reserved to their ORIGINAL CREATORS. No infringing claims are intended))

 

LINKS:

Our site:

http://forwardmomentumproductions.com/

 

Voyager Entertainment:

http://www.starblazers.com

 

Voice Acting Alliance:

http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/index.php

 

PROMOS:

The Adventures of Indiana Jim

http://podcast.indianajim.net/

 

Anomaly

http://www.anomalypodcast.com/

 

The Weird Show

http://theweirdshow.com/

 

Direct download: SoS-01.mp3
Category:Sea of Stars -- posted at: 7:57 AM

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