Peek at Prodigious Papers (November 14, 2012)

[ChrisReid]

As you may have read in the news last month, several CIC staff members recently made it back to the Unviersity of Texas video game document archive. In all, we got some 5,500 additional document scans from the David Downing Collection. While we haven't had time to sort through it all yet, here's several shots to whet Wingnuts' appetites.


The first image shows me (ChrisReid), LOAF and Pix hard at work photographing files. It's followed by a storyboard from Wing Commander 3. Then there's a cool mission flow chart from Wing Commander Prophecy. The next sketches are of the Kilrathi Emperor and Prince Thrakhath, and then there's some financial stats from Wing Commander 4. Finally, there's a very interesting summary for a concept that didn't make it into Prophecy. Originally, the Shrike bomber's forward section was an ejectable "sub-light fighter" that could be piloted in the event of catastrophic damage. Very cool!











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Original update published on November 14, 2012

 

[-danr-]

Just...wow, what a golden update.

...and those WCIV wage packets are certainly a very interesting read.

 

[ChrisReid]

Yeah, we slammed out about 5,500 snapshots in a little over 6 hours I think? With two cameras, that's a shot every 8 seconds or so for the shooters? It doesn't go as quick as pushing the shuttle - you have to turn pages, line up, focus and shoot - constantly for hours and hours on end! For certain things we had a separate page turner/arranger so the photographer could stay focused. We were physically stiff and sore afterwards.

 

[Mekt-Hakkikt]

I can imagine that - your dedication is always astonishing.

Only Hamill and McDowell got gifts? And Mr. Mcdowell got many...or very expensive ones.

 

[-danr-]

What does this term 'gifts' actually mean?

 

[Quarto]

What does this term 'gifts' actually mean?

Oh dear... you must have been an abused child, if you don't know what gifts are

Seriously, though. I guess it would take someone with working knowledge of film industry budgeting to explain. I can only guess that it's some kind of bonus scheme that allows a company to pay an actor extra without actually giving him more (taxable) income.