So far we have only the first part of the episode, which is basically a teaser for the fun to come. Tim Vining must be congratulated here for his adoption of the Open Source philosophy of "release early, release often". By tacit agreement with the copyright owners of Star Trek, fan productions cannot make a profit off of these efforts, so by necessity these are all done in the creator's spare time. Tim not only releases each act as it's done; he goes back and corrects issues that are pointed out in the earlier ones. He improves the work.
Here are two screen caps from the first episode. One is from an early-released part, and the second is from the final production. Here Tim's fixed the injustice of T'Ling not having a seat of her own, and has generally improved the detail of the scene.
In the first episode of Aurora, I found the modeling to be superb, but the actual animation to be a little bit unnatural. I falls well into the uncanny valley. However, that's not the case with this new production, making me wonder if Tim is rotoscoping some of the scenes. Whether he is or not, bravo! Big improvement. Note in particular the "gotta go" moment outside of the bar, and the entire scene in front of the computer.
Here's the original episode, about 55 minute long, complete. Watch it to get an intro to the characters and to get a taste of what character-driven sci-fi is all about:
And here's PART 1 of "Mudd in Your I", As you can see from the opening shot, some of the renders appear to be incomplete, but as I mentioned, Tim has previously fixed such things in the final product. Seeing the rough edges does not detract at all from the story, in my opinion, and I have high hopes for the finished product.
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