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Welcome back to Cloud Imperium Santa Monica offices.

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Tonight we reveal the two teams you chose to save.

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Plus, we've got a chance for fifty of you, yes fifty, to join us live to see our winner crowned at the end.

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This is The Next Great Starship.

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Hi, I'm Sandi Gardiner. Welcome to episode eight of the Next Great Starship.

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The concept art phase is over, and the judges have selected their top ten teams.

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After the judges gave their feedback, the teams have a chance to update their concept designs.

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Let's take a look.

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1 Bit Amoeba here, and I'll show you update on my gunship.

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The previous version had a very simple missile launcher which was just a pod.

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I've changed it with this, kind of revolver mechanism launcher.

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Thrusters didn't look well and didn't work well either,

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so I restarted it from the scratch and set it to go with this one.

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Here are some quick animations for all necessary flight maneuvers

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to make sure that the thrusters have enough space to rotate correctly.

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All thrusters work three dimensional

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so it's not necessary to turn 180 degrees to give thrust in the opposite direction.

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My first paintover and the new name and manufacturer for the ship.

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I hope you enjoyed it. I for sure had a lot of fun to create it.

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I figured we made an update on how we believe the thrusters would work on our gunship, the Redeemer.

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The front manoeuvring thrusters are here, on top, and right below the cockpit.

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The main thrusters are embedded in the big wing itselves.

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Here's pitch.

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Bottom thrusters fired at the back, and the front handling the ship up.

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And reverse, obviously, handling the ship back down.

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Here's how the ship yaws: it fires its thrusters on one side, and use the manoeuvring thrusters in the front to steer effectively.

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This's also the part that we're not entirely sure about if it'll work in engine

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because this whole system depends on tank steering

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and we're not entirely sure if that's 100% doable within Star Citizen.

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That's why we also came up with two small alternatives to make yaw more feasible.

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Here's option one; we add retro-thrusters on one side.

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And here's option two, where we rotate the whole engine body to provide more sideaway thrust.

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And finish up: here's VTOL.

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Let me introduce you to the Guardian AX-2, manufactured by Aegis Dynamics.

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So this new design incorporates all of the core features of the original design;

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the overall feel of the ship has more of an Aegis Dynamics look to it.

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I've addressed many of the points brought up by the judges, starting with the size of the wings in comparison to the main body of the ship.

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I've rebalance it so it doesn't look like the wings are too small for the amount of weight they are carrying.

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I've changed the profile of the ship,

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so that it no longer looks like it's drooping down; it's no longer sort of a hunch back ship.

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One of the other big changes is the entire front end of the ship.

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So the cockpit area was completely redesigned.

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The cockpit sits pretty high on the ship at this point,

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and the pilot is able to see clearly around almost the entire perimeter of the ship.

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You'll notice here that all of the weapons are able to hide inside of the ship: the class 3, 4 and 5s.

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I've also paid a lot more attention to the thruster placement.

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My original design had some pretty serious technical issues with its ability to rotate to different directions,

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it didn't quite fit properly on the ship, so I redesigned it completely

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and I incorporated the maneuvering thruster technology

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where it would gimble at a specific point, at the very base of the nozzle of the thruster;

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and added that to all four of the TR3 so each one of them can now rotate independently in place.

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The Guardian AX-2 as manufactured by Aegis Dynamics.

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First off, we would like to thank the judges for the insightful feedback of our ship, the AX114 Boomslang.

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Because of the positive response we received on our last round, we've made only minor final adjustments to the general design,

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while at the same time flushing out our ship's functionality.

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We've chose Origin Jumpworks for our ship manufacturer since our own design philosophy of function and form match theirs.

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Their anti-piracy policy would also explain their production of a gunship tailored specifically for the needs of mercenaries and bounty hunters.

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The first thing we did for this phase was tighten the ship silhouette,

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since we realised that the ship was still too big for the fifteen tonne maximum cargo capacity.

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We slimed down the hull and redesigned the wings to give it a sleeker and more aggressive profile.

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As for the pilot's field of view, here's a rough wide angle approximation of the view inside the pilot's seat.

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The ship's canopy provides excellent visibility for both the pilot and crew member seated in jump seats on the upper deck.

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Here's our final design for the AX114 Boomslang mercenary gunship by Origin Jumpworks, concepted by Ikarus.

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We strived to make our final rendering as realistic as possible.

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As before, we hoped that the function of the different ship parts are evident at a glance.

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The weapons, with the exception of the pilot-controlled class 4 turret, can be retracted into the hull.

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The heavily armoured AX115, our Bushmaster variant, is a later version developed independently by the UEE Navy.

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Thank you for the opportunity to be included in this competition,

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and this is truly the ship we want to fly, and we hope to get that chance. Thank you.

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Greetings Citizen, Fuzzy Modem here.

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Last time, the judges liked my backstory and the idea of sword and shield,

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but they weren't sold on my execution and presentation.

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Because the judges weren't really taken with my design, I've come up with three different versions for them to choose from.

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The first is by Roberts Space Industries.

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I've smoothed it over, and I've removed the rabbets. The moving form I've made it more like the Aurora and the Constellation.

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The second is by Consolidated Outland, inspired by the work we've seen thus far on the Mustang.

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It's the most asymmetrical of the three options, and instead of traditional turrets, the weapons are built into the shield.

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The third design is by Kruger Intergalactic. It abandons the asymmetry in favour of a second shield on the other side.

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I can move forward in one of these directions, or I can mix and match parts between them.

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I look forward to the next round of critique.

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Hello fellow citizens. Welcome to team IXM's concept progress report.

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After receiving feedback from the judges, we started improving our hull design.

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We tried to achieve an overall bulkier look.

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In several steps, we reduced a bit of length;

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we also increased the height by 0.3 meters,

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and especially made the nose more bulky.

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The cockpit shape was changes after trying different variants.

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We also tried adding some thick armour at different spots, giving it more detail and adding some substance.

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And finally, we started adding some rough texture to the ship.

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We also went ahead an improved turret access and deployment from the standby position.

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The turret position and field of view for the class 4 hardpoint was added as well.

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And we have some ideas for the class 3 missile racks,

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which in our case developed into a missile revolver,

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holding more missiles while keeping it low file as it wouldn't need to deploy completely.

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To give you an idea of how the ship would land, and also how the VTOL system would work, we added this short landing sequence.

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Alright, so for comparison, here's the original three quarters paintover of the ship,

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and there are actually thrusters there, but maybe it just looks odd, maybe it's not obvious enough, so we updated that.

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Here's the reverse view of the ship with the RCS thrusters,

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so we can see at a better angle to show off how the remote thrusters changed the shape of our ship.

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We moved the variable thrusters back into the middle,

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so that the upper coloured binder and nozzle at the outside can do a different purpose.

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So, and we also trimmed the front of the drop pod, so that drop pod can be picked up easier,

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because the older design, there's no easy way for the gunship to pick it up after it come off.

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Here you can see the turret deployment, the docking ladder and door deployment,

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and the docking ring been deployed. You'll see that at the back of the video.

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Next is the intakes on the engine animating for atmospheric flight, and open and close like that,

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to become air breathing and non-air breathing.

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Next is the upper engine afterburners that you can see opening very soon.

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There's actually functional lower afterburners, but the lower engine mostly just using effect for that.

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That's the animation.

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Next you will see the landing sequence of the ship, with the engine in VTOL position and the nozzles help that.

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The lower engine pivots some more,

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and the rear engine also pivots with the thruster

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and the landing gear popping up.

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Speaking of the landing gear, here's some close up of the landing gear,

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with first pass position on the hydraulics. We're looking at it. And that's about it.

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So here's the newly dubbed AX14 Silverback by Drake Interplanetary.

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After hearing Mark nicknamed it the Silverback, it just fit so well with the ship so we run with it.

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Also we went with Drake as well because Chris liked it, and we were also leaning in that direction.Thanks Guys.

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Most of this is in 3D. This's outdated cause we've refined the model and working on several things.

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Here's some orbital views. You'll see we have multi manned turrets on the top and bottom, providing coverage,

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at least 360 horizontal and 180 vertically on the top and bottom of the ship.

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We have two modes of flight for this, we have a cruise mode and a battle attack mode.

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The wings flip back puts it in cruise mode, provides faster forward speed while sacrificing some lateral movement.

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We've also redesigned the thrusters a bit to balance out the frame and provides more articulation.

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The wings provide atmosphere control surfaces, use to help you vector in your descent in the atmosphere; helpful with landing as well.

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We also put some interior shots in here for you.

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These sort of look like only done in half, but may change up.

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We also have a pretty complex missile loading system

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that goes inside the ship so you can see the missiles load, and also they get taken into the wing.

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So guys, thanks for watching. That's our update.

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Ship is able to concentrate fire of all turrets to the ground, or to the top side of the ship we are going to board.

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There are just minimal blind holes, pilot is able to cover marines during attack or retreat.

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Gunners have their own cabins; there are sleeping pods for everyone - pilot, gunners, and up to six marines.

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The civilian variant has space for pilot cabin as well.

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Early this week, I got a chance to check in with the ten teams, and get their reaction to moving on to the modelling phase.

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Alright. Hold on, I need to turn my sound up.

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No, you're good. You're sounding good.

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Oh. Well, not anymore.

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Hi, Sandi. It's Shawn, team Cyro here all the way from Alaska.

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How's the connection today?

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That's not bad. You do look like fuzzy modem still.

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Ok, say something.

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Hello ~

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Hi, Sandi. I'm Alexander from team Troyka.

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Hey Sandi, this is Elwin Bachiller from SkyGuard Fabrications.

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Hey Sandi, Brian from Shard Collective.

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Hi Sandi, It's Paul from team Four Horsemen.

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Hi Sandi, It's Jan from 1 Bit Amoeba.

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Hi Sandi, this is InfiniteXueMonkey.

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Hi Sandi, we're team Shimapan.

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Hi Sandi, and it's Vladimir from team TRUE.

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Hi Sandi, Ephalanx from Tri-Tri.

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Congratulations team Shimapan on making it through to the next round.

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Congratulations InfiniteXueMonkey.

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Thanks. It's awesome! Thank you.

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How are you feeling in the competition?

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I'm feeling pretty good.

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I just think we had some good luck here, hopefully we can keep it going.

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I had a great response from the whole community, and from the judges as well. I'm feeling pretty motivated.

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First of all, we're a bit flattered by making it so far. I think we can beat into the top twelve

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is really great, considering the level of competition and growing demand of professionalism.

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Very excited, but also very tired, so we can't like express the excitement properly.

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I'm glad that I'm still here, but I'm still going for that no.1 spot.

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Well we felt good of course, but we've not actually won. We had our doubts,

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but we are still on the flight, and we're going to do our best to keep flying.

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How does it feel to have been the wildcard, and now you're in the next round?

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Well, I have to say that's definitely awesome, we're all really really happy about that,

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especially since we also felt like the pressure of lots of people really put their trust in us.

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Next step is really good feeling for us, I have to say.

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How did your team feel about the feedback of the judges?

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A bit of overwhelmed. We felt proud, of course, naturally.

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But we also felt very burdened by how much stress we were given.

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We've got some good feedback from both the judges and the community.

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You think the judges were too hard on you?

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No, of course not. On me, they are very gentle.

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The critique we felt actually turned out very good in the end.

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I thrive on feedbacks, so it's really exciting to get feedback from people I respect so much.

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They liked it more than we thought they would, so we are pretty excited about that.

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How's your modelling and texturing phase moving along?

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I haven't got into texturing yet, but I'm definitely into the modelling phase.

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Right now, we're just modelling like crazy; trying to get all the pieces in, cause there're tons of pieces.

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Have you guys started on the modelling phase?

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Well, of course we did. We are doing our best to make it in game.

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Texturing isn't there yet, because we're still changing the exterior,

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and the artist is currently working on specific elements of internal design.

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We're just plugging along, and we've got some good stuff coming.

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I need to do a few prototyping things,

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especially for the texturing, before actually start working on the final model.

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We have a very good feeling about the modelling steps; I think we've come very far now.

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I'm feeling very confident that I'll do well in the next stage. It's nice to completely left the pencil and paper behind,

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and to be working just in Maya now. Maya and Photoshop are my comfort zone; the modelling and texturing.

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What did you think of the competing teams' work?

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It was very varied. Some of the teams that I've seen were really good, like better than I expected them to be;

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like Shimapan, for example, did an excellent job.

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There are some really really good designs that I've seen.

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So like I said, yes, there are every reason to respect our competition.

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Which teams are you most in fear of at the minute? Or do you think give you the most competition?

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All of it.

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I would say Four Horsemen.

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Four Horsemen.

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Tri-Tri and Four Horsemen are really big in the game right now.

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I don't know, I feel like Troyka could be very scary.

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Troyka is going to come out of nowhere, I know. They're going to be pretty scary.

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I have to admit I'm a bit of fan of Troyka, obviously.

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I actually really like Tallon, like Cyro,

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SkyGuard as well; he's cool.

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So it sounds like you guys are feeling pretty confident now.

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Yeah, that's our will.

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Alright, you gotta be bold.

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Yeah, I feel confident; I mean our approaches are clearly different, and so I feel good about that.

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Confidence should be shown through actions, not words.

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So I'll do my best to act, instead of talk. Roll in, Troyka will.

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We're feeling pretty confident, but still, you know, not overconfident.

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Very confident, I have to say.

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We feel pretty good about it. We don't want to be too cocky.

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Alright, we'll see you next time.

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Yeah, Awesome. Thanks.

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Thanks a lot, see you in the verse.

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Alright, see you guys. Later.

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As the field continues to narrow, we thought the teams could use a little motivation and insight from our new community ambassador.

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Like you, he's a super fan, but he's also no stranger to winning.

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Hey, my name is Dan Gheesling. I'm the new community ambassador for TNGS.

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I'm from Michigan, and I first gained a little notoriety from winning the reality TV show Big Brother, and I won half a million dollar,

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and just like playing a video game, Big Brother took strategy,

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reflexes, reading your enemies, and making the right decision at the critical time, just like you would in a video game.

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A lot of people go into reality TV show, and they aren't focus on the game,

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and as a gamer, that's the only thing I focus on, treating everyone like an enemy.

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So coming off reality TV, I had some opportunities as a motivational speaker, I travel across the country to universities and colleges,

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talking about leadership and motivation,

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and specifically how you can take action to put yourself in a better position for success.

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And I'm hoping that I can bring that experience, that background, to help some of the teams competing in TNGS,

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so they can push themselves a little bit further, and really connect with the Star Citizen community.

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Chris Roberts has had a huge impact at my early childhood gaming days. You know, I grew up playing Wing Commander.

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And playing that as a young kid, it wasn't just a video game; it's moment of story really captivated you,

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and also kind of help me develop what I look for and expected for in video games thereafter.

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It's done like a movie production, and back at the early 90s, you didn't see anything like that.

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And so playing that as a kid had definitely raised my expectations for video games, even to what I play right now.

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When I first learned about Star Citizen, I freaked out,

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because we all know that CR took a little bit of hiatus from creating video games and PC games.

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And I can remember exactly where I was when I first saw the trailer,

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and said "you thought I was dead"

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and I'm like "CR didn't die, did he?"

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I remember watching that trailer eight times over right away,

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because the emotion that was evoked from that trailer, and not only that, but the backing that's going to come behind it.

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CR is coming back out of pseudo retirement; CR is coming back from his hiatus;

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it's something that you don't want to miss.

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Right at the middle of the trailer, I stopped everything and I just went and gave money.

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And I feel like a lot of people did that as well, because this is Star Citizen; something we've all been waiting for.

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And I did't want to delay; I wanted to be one of the first to back the game,

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because chances are if you are one of the early backers, you'll get some cool rewards,

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but beyond that, it was just a way for me to thank CR for everything that he's created up until this point.

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I know that Star Citizen is going to be around for a long time, and I'm hoping one day, I can share with my kids

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like the same experience I had with CR's early games.

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Being a mega fan, it is a complete honour to be selected to be the community ambassador for TNGS.

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I want to ask the questions that everyone wants to know, that maybe I can get away with asking because I don't work directly for CR.

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Just like you guys, I'm a huge fan of statships,

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and we recently just had a chance to check out the concept stages of the Mustang.

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Let's go take a look and see how far they've come.

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Hey guys, what's going on? My name is Dan, the community ambassador for TNGS.

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David: David Hobbins. Dan: Nice to meet you, I know all about you.

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Chris. It's a pleasure.

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So the reason I'm here is I want to find out more about the Mustang and its development. So, can you tell me a bit more about what's changed in the Mustang since we last saw it?

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DH: Since the last episode, I've go and fleshed out the cockpit, the interior,

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and the EVA chamber allows pilots to get in and out on the under side of it.

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The other major changes are the addition of thrusters which are absolutely important,

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as well, I got a large air brake to the rear of it when it's in atmosphere.

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DG: Great. So these are some significant final changes, and then now that's done,

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is the concept of Mustang ready to be passed over to Chris? And what's the next step for you?

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DH: Definitely. CR has signed off on all of these,

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and so I pretty much just forward the concept imagery and my rough geometry

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which Chris Smith will use it as a template,

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and I've just got that over to him.

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DG: Ok. And for you, once you're done with it, and sign off,

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is that the last you're gonna deal with the Mustang? Once you pass it over to Chris, is that it for you? Or what happens for you?

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DH: Chris Smith is an accomplished modeller and designer at his own right,

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but there are instances where there'll be a significant change, and that'll mean

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end up back in my lab, where I'll be focusing on a particular aspect, or guiding the process a bit more,

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but generally, he's got it; I have complete faith. Can't wait to see what he comes up with.

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DG: So Chris, now the Mustang has passed over to you, can you talk me through your process, and what's the first thing you're gonna do with Dave's concept?

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CS: I usually take a concept like that, since it's 3D,

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I probably need to repolygise it, that is rebuild it,

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and get it ready for game asset.

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And then move on to texturing, and then we'll set it up, and get it ready for the game.

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DG: Chris, thanks so much for showing me the Mustang. I know we're going to seeing more of you working on it in the upcoming weeks.

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I really appreciate the time you both are taking with me.

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A pleasure meeting you. Dave, a pleasure to meet you as well. Thanks so much.

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This is the dream come true to actually get to sit down and meet CR.

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It's something I don't think my ten year old self playing Wing Commander would actually believe.

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DG: Chris, thanks so much for bringing me on this as the community ambassador for TNGS.

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It's a complete honour to be sitting here with you, because I'm such a huge fan of your work.

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CR: You're welcome.

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DG: And I hope with the question I ask you, is to gain some insight as a fan, but also for the teams,

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to get a little bit into your thought process, so maybe they can take things from this interview and integrate them into their ship design.

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CR: Absolutely.

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DG: So my first question for you is, what is it like working for CR?

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CR: Oh. Very easy; it's always is.

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I think that I can be tough on people,

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because I just want to make a really good game,

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so occasionally that could be frustrating for people, but in general I think people, especially on the team that we have,

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everyone making this game because they love this kind of game, and they want to be this incredibly ambitious project.

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So I think, hopefully anyway, you can ask them,

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but generally they don't mind it because I'm really about trying to push the boundaries,

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and like "it's good, but is it good enough? Let's go further than that".

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because I really want to see how far we can go, but I'm just as tough on myself the same way,

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so it's not about being the person who say "oh you have to redo it"; it's more about "hey, we can do better; we can push it".

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but I think everyone knows I'm about making the game that I wanted to play,

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and I think everyone else here want to play it too,

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and so we just kind of geek out and get excited about really cool stuff.

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Our artists just done something, "oh, how cool, look at this," and we look "wow, that's awesome".

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And that's actually kind of a nice thing about the way that we're doing SC, that we're actually sharing those moments with the community,

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where in the past, in game development, you didn't. You and your teams would appreciate the cool stuff that people are doing,

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but the outside world didn't really understand it, and by the time we got to the finished game,

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all the little nuance and detail that it took to get there were sort of lost.

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It's just the final game which people could appreciate, but a lot of the work and love and effort put in by team members don't necessarily get appreciated.

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And so in the process we're making the game now, I think we get to share a lot more of that, which is really cool.

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And that's also part of the whole idea of TNGS;

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it's to sort of show the process of designing and building a ship, and everything it takes to do that,

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especially at the level we're going for, it's not a simple task,

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so the quality of the people that we got competing, and all the work that they've done, all the teams is incredibly impressive.

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I think it's a great education process for our community,

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and hopefully they also enjoy the show, and get into it and pick their favourite.

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DG: This is a very open environment here at CIG, but for you, would you think that your employees think that you are a fun boss?

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CR: I don't know; some times yes, sometimes no.

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It's kind of hard to say; I don't find myself intimidating, but then, during works,

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other people said "well, you know, you can be a bit intimidating, Chris".

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I like games; I like to play around and do that stuff,

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but I do tend to get pretty laser focused on "ok we got to get this thing done".

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So I don't goof around, maybe as much as I would if I wasn't trying to get this game done.

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DG: So speaking of having fun and games, do you ever play games with your employees?

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CR: Recently, not really, because we've been working and focused hard on getting DFM going.

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games, and just saying what you like and what you don't like about them. I sort of feel like if you are in that media, you have to see what everyone else's doing.

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Appreciate what's going on out there, and what other approaches people takes.

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DH: Can you tell me your biggest, most intense fanboy or fangirl experience that you have had?

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Like someone came up to you, I could have been, maybe an employee, can you share that with us?

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CR: I think there was one time when I was meant to merry someone, but I don't think that happened yet.

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I would say probably, we did this event in last year in Cologne for gamescom.

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We did an event where we launched the hangar module.

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And so we put the event together, which was full of backers.

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I think we found the biggest, sort of night club venue we could,

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and it would fit like twelve hundred people or something.

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and there's a waiting list of another thousand sort of people.

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That's kind of unusual.

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This is not what should happen for...

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DG: You're rock star!

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CR: Yeah, and when the event happened,

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the stage, everyone was chanting,

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yeah, closest you can get to feeling like what a rock star musician was.

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Not on the same scale, but just going out there and everyone been so excited, which was cool.

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It's really cool, and it's just nice to know that everyone, or most people, enjoy what we did.

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DG: The company that Wing Commander came out under, which was Origin, said "we create worlds".

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And that's what you're doing right now. You're creating another world.

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And I've heard you saying that you're creating the game that you always wanted to play,

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but I think there's something more to it than that. Why are you creating this world? Why did you want to do this.

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CR: "We create world". That was Origin's motto.

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I and Richard Garriott was in British, and we were actually thinking about what the motto would be.

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That was always discussed, because both him and me just love to build worlds.

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Whether I was doing games or I was doing movies, it was the same thing.

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I like the escapism and world building aspect of entertainment in general;

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movies can do that, but I think games are better situated for it,

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especially now, because thelevel of technology and power of computers

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can do it to a fidelity that you just couldn't imagine even five years ago.

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It is a game I want to play, but it's also just like building this universe out to the level of detail with all the different bits working.

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It's like a dream come true.

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If I have 300 million dollars and I would be making whatever movie,

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I still couldn't do that, because movie is a very small window on the world,

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where this is like building a huge world, and then let people play inside it.

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For me, I finally feel like I'm getting to do it to the level that's exciting for me.

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If the game ends up being seventy percent of what I hope it's gonna be,

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then I think a lot of people would spend a lot of time in this world. That's my hope of it.

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DG: What part of the world creation is the most fun for you personally?

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where you start to figure out what the world would be like, and we documented the process a bit.

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I usually like base them on some level of reality or history.

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So just figuring our that, how it's gonna work, which was what Dave and I did,

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who is the lead writer on the project, at the very beginning, early to mid 2012.

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I really like that, I really the concept stage,

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it's really fun, we have people

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"what the Xi'an gonna look like"

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"what the Vanduul gonna look like"

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or let's visualise what the Terra's gonna look like.

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You start to see the world.

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Pictures for me; you can have a hundred pages, and it's just text, it's much harder to relate,

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but when you start to visualise pictures, that's where I start to connect to it.

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And then when you actually got the bits working in the game, you can actually feel it and play around with it. That's cool to me.

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I would say the part I probably don't like very much, is the bit that goes from the concept to the bit where you get to play around with it,

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but you have to do it, that's what it takes;

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but there's a lot of work involved in that, that doesn't go as quickly as you would like.

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DG: I know you put a lot of pressure on yourself, to make sure this is the best it can be,

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but what do you put the most pressure on yourself in this project?

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What would make you said "this is gotta be right every single time"?

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CR: I think it's the bigger picture things.

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The DFM, it needs to be fun;

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we're releasing something for a lot of people to play, almost like a real life release,

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but it's year and a half away from when you would normally release it.

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So there's lot of polish and iteration that you would normally, in the old way, do it behind close doors.

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It's always a bit scary to have something released out there

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that you think could be potentially better, or this thing isn't done yet, whatever.

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That's the pressure, because I'm really trying to push the team to get as much of that stuff done and polished as possible,

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even if we don't have all the functionality nor the content,

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because I sort of feel like, even though people know it's an Alpha and everything else,

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it's hard to step away from that.

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The game business has always been like this, the movie business has always been like this,

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there's always people said "oh yeah, I know that it's a rough cut, I know it hasn't got finished effects, nor graphics,

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but it didn't look that good."

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"Yeah, because we had that discussion."

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DG: For you, it's kind of like letting your baby out there, and once it's out there...

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CR: You want him to look pretty, all the rest of the stuff.

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DG: What does success look like for you on this project?

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CR: For me, I think it would be, first of all, feel like I made the game I wanted to play, that's one level of it.

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The other level is that we already have a vibrant community,

420
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I would like a bigger one than we have right now; I think we will have one.

421
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They are as engaged and having as much fun playing the game and adventuring around as they are having right now, waiting for the game.

422
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We think the community is incredibly focused and engaged, and they can only go around the hangar; that's not even playing the game.

423
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So the question is when the dream get into their hands, is it s dream that matches up with their dream,

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and is it fun and engaging enough that they are going to carry on playing it with their friends for a long time.

425
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If I managed to do that, I would feel like it's been successful. That's what I hoped to do.

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DG: The game's done, and you sit in, and you have to take your inaugural flight in the open world. Which ship are you choosing? You can only pick one.

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CR: Right now, it would be the constellation.

428
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It would be the ship I would like to fly around.

429
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It wouldn't be in DFM v.1, the multi-crew ships

430
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but we'll have it in DFM v.2, which will have multi-crew ships.

431
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I'm doing some actual coding to advance the state of stuff,

432
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because that's my dream.

433
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Not just the standard Wing Commander, Privateer, Freelancer single seater,

434
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ship that just revolve around you,

435
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this is like you get up, walk down to the galley,

436
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make yourself a cup of coffee, and then go down the cargo hold,

437
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like a moving ship in space

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that you and some of your friends could be flying, or you and some NPCs.

439
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So I would say of the current set of the ships, Constellation is the ship I would be flying.

440
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You never know; maybe some new stuff coming down, but that's the pick, that's the one I want to fly.

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DG: Chris, thank you so much for sitting down. It's been an honour; I'm such a huge fan of all your work,

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and I'm such a huge fan of Star Citizen. I hope the community love this interview,

443
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and I truly appreciate the time you've taken.

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CR: You are more than welcome.

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DG: Thanks so much Chris, my pleasure.

446
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It's really incredible to sit down and gets to know CR.

447
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I'm more impressed that for being such a legend in this industry, he's just a norma, humble guy,

448
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and that's really refreshing.

449
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My role as community ambassador is to help the remaining teams;

450
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I'm going to check in with them, keep them motivated, and give them any insight to help them win TNGS,

451
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which is essentially comes down to impressing you guys as the community.

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Sandi: Over the next few weeks, you'll be hearing a lot more form Dan.

453
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But speaking of the community, your voices were heard when you voted for the safe.

454
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Let's see which two teams you put back into the competition.

455
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Alright guys, the votes for the save were in.

456
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The top two teams were back into the competition.

457
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Congratulations to the Tallon Corp, who received the second most votes.

458
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Hello star citizens, I just want to say a big thanks to everyone who's voted me back in to the competition and from the save mode.

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I have to say it was a really overwhelming thing to see the feedback

460
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from all the supporters and backers, and stuff like that,

461
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and just generally the community, which is awesome.

462
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Like the amount of interest in the design that I've put up on the forum was really cool,

463
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and inspired me a lot to carry on,

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changing whole designs.

465
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And it was interesting to see the specific parts that people felt that they like and felt that they didn't like as well,

466
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so that was really cool.

467
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I would specifically like to shout out to IXJac,

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and also DesiRC,

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because those two guys, they were there from the beginning,

470
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and persuade me to create the thread in the first place, and booked the open and got closing hit on it as well, so that's really cool.

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Thanks again for vote me back in.

472
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See you in the verse. Tallon Corporation signing out.

473
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And now let's find out who got the most votes from you guys.

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Hello

475
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Congratulations 3Dingo.

476
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Why?

477
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You are the team with the most save votes.

478
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Really?

479
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Yeah.

480
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Wow.

481
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Alright. So how you guys feel?

482
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It was a really really tense week.

483
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We see the result was decided,

484
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and our design was... yeah.

485
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But we don't like to disappoint people,

486
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we see the face of the judges, we see the community responses,

487
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we redone it, a better design to not disappoint anyone.

488
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I heard from the judges that you did a really good redesign after the feedback.

489
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The judges like it?

490
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Sandi: Yes, they like it, they like it a lot.

491
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How is it going now? How is the modelling and the texturing? Stage two, how's it going?

492
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Fine. Much much much much fine.

493
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A good way, because so many people in the community

494
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tell us "this is not good, we like this"

495
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so we have a better layout of the ship,

496
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because when it's your own work,

497
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you don't have a total view of the problems,

498
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but when some people tell you "this is wrong"

499
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you know where to edit.

500
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The community really helped we, and we really appreciated it.

501
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So congratulations, we're so excited to see what you see in the modelling phase.

502
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We want to appear more serious, because much people tell us we are just kids and babies with that. That should join us.

503
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So we cut out the YEAHHH. We're not going to do something like this.

504
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But we're really happy, and thank you. Thank you community, thank you judges.

505
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Ciao.

506
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Ciao. 3Dingo.

507
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There are twelve teams left, but only one can win,

508
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and we would love you to be there with us live in Los Angeles on June 7.

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The first 25 people to tweet us @RobertSpaceInd with the hashtag #TNGSFreeTickets will win tickets for 2 to our live finale.

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Tweet us now.

511
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We'll have more free tickets to give away in the upcoming weeks, so keep watching.

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TNGS will return on Friday, April 18.

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But until then, please check out our exclusive behind the scenes look at the upcoming dogfight,

514
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right here for the next three Fridays. See you soon.