Instead, I’d like to focus on those “fanimators” who tell a STORY through their productions.
But I’m not talking about those folks this time. I call these “fanimations.” Now, of course, there’s countless digital artists out there looking to showcase their work with elaborate (or simple) renderings of fly-bys and “hero shots” of various well-known starships. There’s a whole sub-sub genre of Star Trek fan films where the filmmakers don’t bother with sets or actors but instead simply use their CGI or animation skills to tell a story. But what if you don’t have any actors? What if the stars of your fan film are…star ships? The one thing all of these types of fan films have in common is they feature actors. Sometimes, we only hear the actors’ voices under computer-generated scenes or captured from Trek online or CD-ROM games.
When most of think of Star Trek fan films, we picture fan actors-trained and untrained-dressing up and portraying characters on fan-made sets or green-screen composited in front of virtual backgrounds.