Roddenberry Vault: The Animated Series

In today's installment of the Roddenberry Vault review we look at images from Star Trek: The Animated Series (which I've covered in detail here).  First up is a painted cel featuring Spock's model sheet pose.

Here are a couple of drawings showing Spock's head at different degrees of turning. These also show the different scale for closeups and long shots.

Here's a painted cel of Spock. The episode details are cut off at the bottom.

Next up is some art featuring the design of the tricorder and demonstrating how Spock would wear it.  I have a nice clean copy of this art in my collection which I've covered here.

Here's some art featuring Aleek-Om and a young Spock.

This art would become one of the most iconic images of TAS.  It features I-Chaya and a ferocious le-matya.

Finally, here's a sweet drawing of young Spock and his friend, I-Chaya.

In the next installment we'll look at images from the TOS movies.

Star Trek Quogs

Early in 2009 CBS created a new animated Star Trek style which they called "Quogs."  Several products were launched in close succession beginning with GoAnimate's Star Trek Quogs Channel where anyone can create their own animated films using the Star Trek characters.

Here's a brief example I created:

Mission to Vulcan: Part One

There are two characters of interest to Vulcanologists: Mr. Spock and a Romulan.

Following the trend of large scale reusable wall stickers that have become popular in the last few years, LTL Prints has a large selection of Quogs wall stickers available.

Funko also released a series of five inch vinyl Quogs figures including Spock, Kirk and an Orion Slave Girl.

Last, but not least, Armitron released a few Star Trek Quogs wristwatches including this one featuring our favourite Vulcan.

I quite like the stylized design of the Quogs characters.  It seems a logical next step after the original animated series.  I think CBS should have done more to promote them.  I wish that they had also created a new animated series, even if it were just web-based.  I'd also love to have that Romulan as a Funko figure in my collection!

Spock Animators' Model Sheets

I was recently able to pick up a bunch of great model sheets from Star Trek: The Animated Series on eBay.  The best of the bunch are these four which feature our favourite Vulcan, Mr. Spock.

Vulcan in the Animated Series

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