posted 10-16-1999 11:41 PM
Well this isnt a chat site so you should probably wait a day or two for a satisfactory response for your posts. You kind of repeated yourself too. You should probably stuck to one thread to ask the same questions.
Their isnt an "oh, all you have to do is this" kind of answer to your question. What you asked requires planning, resources and imagination.
You need to fill us in on what you intend to make. Is it high tech like lost in space the movie, or low tech like lost in space the tv show? What are you going for?
What you can do if you have a little money and alot of imagination is buy crap from thrift stores, yard sales, grandmas attic, anywhere you can find cheap junk and alter it ,glue it,paint it and make something out of it. Use cardboard for walls and then paint some abstract looking parts and affix them to it. The hard work will pay off.
As far as software goes, the ones everybody would suggest (which are constanly mentioned here, where have you been?) are photoshop, after effects. After effects is necassary is you intend to do bluescreen. These arent cheap but they are if you get them by shady means.
Im sure someone here has better suggestions for cheap effects software. But if you use cheap the outlook will look it. Which is cool if your going for "lost in space the tv show" though.