TAO Productions

[Kheren]

This is my own line of video and machinima creations freely available online (Youtube).

You will find hereafter two sections: one for Star Trek exclusively, the other for everything else. Please come back here often as I usually make 2 to 4 videos a year, depending on opportunities, inspiration, ressources and time/work required and available.

This post will highlight upcoming productions with a target release time given.


COMING SOON TO A YOUTUBE VID NEAR YOU!


STAR TREK

- TOS revival
I am toying with the idea of making an original episode using visual and audio excerpts from all three seasons (and other sources) to come up with an original Star Trek story. Making something new with something old as it were...





OTHERS:


- PIRATES DU NOUVEAU MONDE / PIRATES OF THE NEW WORLD: trailer about a new novel project of mine featuring images from Pirates of the Burning Sea (2013) : Btoh french and English versions of the trailer are completed. Now waiting for confirmation by a publisher that the novel will get released before putting this up.

- ESCADRON X (The X Squadron): another series of novels I am currently writing and proposed to a publisher. The trailer is completed and here too awaiting official confirmation before putting it up.


Enjoy!

[Kheren]

Here you will find all my videos available on Youtube pertaining to Star Trek .

It will be updated each time I will make a new vid.

Enjoy!


-Lotus Fleet VS The Crystalline Entity: The Return Triumphant
The official record of our Fleet's first victory over the Crystalline Entity
http://youtu.be/oN3Y2RrQb6Q

- Crusade : teaser trailer for the second Fleet Action of our RP department.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmIlDgFu0do&feature=youtu.be


- Lotus Fleet Ships of The Line : Promo trailer for our 5th RP season and paying hommage to our first four years of adventures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smCWHthj ... e=youtu.be


- Star Trek Delta 1 : Promo trailer for a French text-RP website
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Ugk_68ARd4


- Hitler rants about the next ST movie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLWH1-Irq7U&feature=plcp

(French version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldFsTt22rok&feature=relmfu)



- Star Trek Online adventures (series opening) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNZ69Bshp5g&feature=plcp

(earlier version made with City of Heroes one year before STO was launched) :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpwYj0Bc0a0&feature=context-chv



- Borg Invasion : First Lotus Fleet Roleplaying Fleet Action trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K40IJYMfMFc&feature=plcp



- Lotus Fleet VS the Crystalline Entity :  First Lotus Fleet in-game fleet action (Crystalline Entity gameplay samples): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlAV_NArp5E&feature=plcp



- USS Artemis launch : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeEd0sFH588&feature=plcp
( this one was not made by me but by our former fleet graphic artist; but it's too good to not to be included here )

[Kheren]

This is the rest of my video productions which are not about Star Trek.

This thread will also be updated if I make new stuff.

Hope you will like them too!



- Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe: the Complete Story: This is by far my longest work(almost 2 hours long!) a genuine feature-length movie based on the cut scenes of the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xBtyZ ... load_owner



- Mechwarrior The Movie: my longest project to date, slightly over half an hour and featuring many of the cinematics, cutscenes and trailers of the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av-N6bC ... e=youtu.be



- COH Tribute: H.E.R.O.E.S. INTERNATIONAL: another City of Heroes hommage from stockshots I still had.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx7-6Cn3 ... e=youtu.be


- Farewell to the City : a final salute to the first and best superhero MMO ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byX-pudtcnk&feature=youtu.be


- The Fantastic One : City of Heroes character portrait (hero): 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Izr-likK4xc



- Good Girls Bad Girls : City of Heroes Music video : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSppD51jdFw&feature=plcp



- Sharkaa : City of Heroes character portrait (villain) : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfcK1E0ic7s&feature=plcp



- Kingdom of Noble Heroes :City of Heroes supergroup portrait (heroes) : 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_jE3SGgAtA&feature=context-chv

[Jeff T]

 Thanks for sharing all of these!

-The one with Hitler raging about Abrams was great! I posted a comment on the YouTube page.

-Kind of sad seeing the Artemis launch again… considering her piece-by-piece destruction throughout this current FA story.

-The STO “While We Wait” is cool… especially seeing most of the crew still involved in the current story. Ah… but that poor lovelorn Tyvya….

-Lotus Fleet vs Crystalline Entity is still going to be one of our upcoming goals to defeat….

-Good girls vs bad girls…. Win-win   good choice on soundtrack too!

-Borg Invasion Trailer Lotus Fleet RP: Good promo! It was nice seeing former and current RP participants in there.

-fantastic one: These CoH videos make mewish I got on board and played this game.
RIP CoH
(They should revamp and upgrade this game and relaunch a new version in the future)

I look forward to all upcoming video productions!

[Kheren]

Thanks for all the good words Jeff.

The Hitler rants are always fun to make and see. You can bet I'll do one more once the second Abrams disaster is released.


As for the Artemis; well, all good things...


While we wait and Online adventures LF brand are in fact the same video; one with CoH images and the second one with actual STO images.


LF vs Crystalline entity was a quicky I made in about an hour. It' s awful but still witness of our very first in-game fleet action so it has some kind of historical value I guess...


Good Girls Bad Girls was actually inspired by the song itself; the images came later as a showcase of CoH's character creation engine. 


Borg Invasion was our 1st RP fleet action; of course our 2nd one will also have it's own trailer!


As for the rest of the CoH videos; yeah I hope they show how great this game was, especially for those like me who love creating interesting characters and stories for them. I still have stockshots of it on my PC so expect at least one more like this!

It would indeed be great to have CoH rejuvenated and relaunched... But sadly, it's unlikely since Champions Online is kind of CoH 2.0... but so badly made; the irony is COH and CO were made on the same engine by the same people!

But there is a "Save CoH" movement on the way I heard of... We can only hope.

That's what Star Trek taught us, yes?

In the meantime, yes I'll be making more videos so watch this thread regularly!


EDIT: and indeed, here is my latest (and sadly last) COH vid to salute this great MMO. Next will come Ships of the line... and the Fleet Action trailer! Stay tuned!

[Kheren]

The administration of the Star Trek Delta 1 website just approved and published online on the site and on youtube my latest video made for them: see above in the Star Trek section the one on top : Star Trek Delta 1.

Please note that STD1 is a text-based RP community created last November... and it is a French one. Thus, the video is also all in French... But for those interested, I translated the content below:

The Delta Quadrant
Borg Space
Hirogen hunting grounds
Kazon clans region
Vidiian Sodality zone
Entry point of Fluidic Space

Home of the Ocampa
Native sector of the Talaxians
New home of the 37's
Last refuge of the Voth

70,000 light-years from the Alpha Quadrant
The new frontier

Following it's vow to ensure peace in the galaxy, the United Federation of Planets is sending valorous officers and colonists to establish with the native people of the Delta Quadrant a new Federation

The Delta Federation

The Delta 1 colony
Sector 001
of the New Federation
and it's new Starfleet

USS Santa Maria
DNX-01
Insignia Class

USS Galilee (Galileo)
DNX-02
Ascension class

USS Magellan 
DNX-03
Excalibur class

Although not a direct translation (which would then have been : "aller vaillamment là où aucun homme n'est jamais allé"), the last two sentences ("and in spite of danger, moving forward towards the unknown") are in fact the official French version of the famous quote "To boldly go where no man has gone before" from TOS original translation in the early seventies.

Then comes the annoucement:

Join us!
Become a Starfleet officer
in original and exciting adventures!

Then credits.


Enjoy!

[Kheren]

Our second Fleet Action is now concluding and a 5th RP season is about to commence.

New ships, new crews, new adventures awaits, building from the ones of the past four years. In tribute to this great tradition and to wet your appetite for the next bold ventures of our RPers where no one has gone before, you will find at the top of my Star Trek section of videos (above second post) my latest production: Lotus Fleet Ships of The Line.

It features all the player ships we used since Fleet foundation in 2008, refers to significant stardates and events in our LF RP universe... and just hint at what will come next... hopefully with you boldly going with us!

Enjoy!

[Kheren]

Latest vid (Crusade) now on top of the Star Trek section above

Alright, this one was done over a year ago... The official novelization is still to come (a humongous undertaking as it covers about 14 months of daily play between more than a dozen players on 5 starships and a starbase!) but that doesn't mean we can't take a peak...

Enjoy!

[Jeff T]

Really nice job Kheren!

I added the Crusade vid link to a new Earth Starbase post in STO for a little added publicity.

http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=88291&page=89

[Kheren]

Feel free to use the others as well at any time.