August 31st, 2010

Making The Awesome: The Serenity Artisan Replica



Welcome back, all you Core-Techs, to the newly redesigned Firefly Ship Works. Now with more readability (yeah for white backgrounds and black text!).

For our first post since the site’s relaunch, we offer this little video we did toward the end of 2009 of our model makers working on the first round of Serenity replicas. John Eblan is the guy doing the interviews and also heads up our shop (for more on John, check out his IMDB profile). Read the rest of this entry »




 
 
April 1st, 2010

Firefly: Still Flying – The Tech Notes



A friend of mine once said the best job is the one you’d do for free, but don’t have to. If that’s the case, then I have the best job imaginable, because I get to make awesome stuff for even more awesome people. And I get to work with shows and movies I love and a creative community I admire and respect – enormously.

I can’t really say enough about how awed and humbled we all are here at QMx by the fact that we’re even allowed to play in these brilliant peoples’ sandboxes. So you’ll understand that when Jane Espenson, executive producer of Caprica, co-executive producer of Battlestar Galactica and scribe of one of the most memorable episodes of Firefly, asked me to be her technical editor on her first new Firefly story in over eight years, I was struck dumb.

Well, perhaps not completely dumb: I squeed. I squeed long and I squeed loud. And I, dear reader, am not someone who squees for anything.

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