Dozerfleet Productions projects in the 2000s

With the mid-Oughties, Dozerfleet Productions started taking on its name and current infrastructure. Gone was the old Cormorant era, and in came a push toward higher-quality products. The Dozerfleet Megaverse as understood today didn't come about until the mid-2010s, but the four-year stretch from 2006 - 2010 proved critical in shaping the brand's future direction. As academic projects still needed to be pursued sometimes in cooperation with the brand and sometimes separately from it, the Lansing Community College Project Archive and Ferris State University Project Archive still proved critical in this pentade along with this page to track projects relevant to the era. The pentade lasting from 2010 - 2015 became Dozerfleet Productions projects of the early 2010s, and helped set the stage for the Megaverse in 2016.

The late oughts and early tens were a time of considerable web experimentation, as learning how to promote and publish works online became an imperative - as did acquiring adaptability to a system with ever-changing formats and standards.

Other highlights

 * 1) The first actual videos to be published under either of the aforementioned brands' names were published in this decade.
 * 2) The Dozerfleet Database and The Dozerfleet Forum were first defined in this decade.
 * 3) Narrative universe logic for Dozerfleet works was first defined, but the Megaverse wouldn't begin to take shape until 2013 with Percolation, and wouldn't solidify until 2016 with the "Percolation Warriors Saga" of Camelorum Adventures being proposed.

Proto-Dozerfleet
While works still used the Cormorant branding well until April and May of 2006, most Cormorant projects after 1999 are going to be labeled as Dozerfleet projects on this database, for the sake of simplicity. Works made explicitly for Lansing Community College in the Proto-Dozerfleet era are considered part of a separate list. Likewise, projects done on behalf of Tri-Sola Poetry are considered part of a separate list.

Dozerfleet at Ferris State
This latter half of the 2000s saw Dozerfleet not only get its official name, but become better at organizing projects according to franchise assignments. Projects made exclusively for Ferris State assignments are listed under the Ferris State University Project Archive, just as the Lansing Community College Project Archive did the same for LCC projects. Others are listed below.

Classic Gerosha
Gerosha continuity was rebooted yet again in 2007. Tying in with the plot to what would've been Ciem 2 were two short stories dubbed A Witness from Dirbine and Pursuit of the Facts, designed to test out The Sims 3 early and incorporate that into Gerosha mythos. Ciem 2 and Ciem 3 were doomed to cancellation for a variety of reasons, leading to Comprehensive Gerosha replacing the old Ciem series in 2010.

Extirpon was first inceived in 2009, as a dark antihero with incredible reality warping abilities modeled after the degree of hubris of his adversaries. Limited only by their arrogance, and by his own imagination. Navyrope was inceived around the same time, as an anti-abortion libertarian crusader extremist who would be similar in nature to V for Vendetta, but not quite as anarchistic. Slight rewrites to both Extirpon and Navyrope as characters would cement their places in a later Gerosha canon.

Gleeful-N'-Young, operated by Clyde Spendelworth, became the prime enemy of Navyrope. However, the FPB and Clarence Felick became secondary enemies, as did some corrupt CPS agents and Planned Parenthood affiliates.

Eric Korsicht was originally envisioned as a rogue terrorist offshoot of the same FPB, who targeted Viron after his organization was defeated by Navyrope. He would later be reimagined as a Russian / Mexican mercenary hired by Rappaccini to spread chaos to Indiana - as well as destroy Kentucky and Ohio - and capture the Gray Champion. Both Emeraldon and Ciem would play roles in stopping him, but it would be Gray that would be his undoing.

A minor villain in Ciem 2, he would be re-imagined as "the dragon" for Ciem: Ash Cloud in the Cataclysmic Gerosha timeline.

The table below lists only those works that were at least partially worked on, if not completed, that are entirely true to Classic Gerosha continuity.

Dromedeverse
The years 2007 and 2008 saw a revival of interest in the Trapezoid Kids from 2003. Most Dromedeverse expansion revolved around featuring them in works - largely because they were the easiest to draw and animate (and do voiceover work for.)

When Bikes Argue
The webcomics from 2005 were given video adaptations on YouTube. Though, they were pulled later, due to some political shuffles in 2012. (And also due to the fact that they were received poorly for their lackluster audio mixes.)

Eccentriaverse
Inspired by remembrance of The Blue Face Film Strips, and eager to make a united continuity around it and The Bison, plans were expanded to create a universe that could hold it all together. And also make a related third character that could bring them together. That character, was Volkonir.

The character was initially going to be a modern retelling of The Frog Prince; but there weren't any convincing frogs or frog-shaped toys available in Big Rapids that anyone knew of during production planning. Therefore, a stuffed toy modified from a Wal-Mart New Year's celebration decoration was made the prince's "enchanted curse form" instead of a frog. This also created liberties in how he was to be able to have his curse lifted.

Initial development of Volkonir mythos proved a daunting challenge; but these early projects laid the groundwork. They would inspire comic book remakes for both Volkonir 2008 and Attempt #43, as well as plans for two spinoff TV show premises and two specials, one of which was published to Mod the Sims in 2017.

Stationery Voyagers
Fueled on with inspiration by watching Heroes, efforts ramped up to develop works for this series. One episode and a few minisodes were actually written, with initial plans to write many more. However, the series got canceled in 2018, before the official second episode was even finished with writing. The works that did get made, are listed below.

Mackleyverse
There was a brief revival of the Mackleyverse also. Kings in the Corner got a sequel in the form of 3-13 in 2008, which was then scheduled for a remake some time in 2020 or 2021. It also got a short Penguin on Drugs, a spoof PSA. Before that, in 2007, a music video to Linkin Park's "Somewhere I Belong" was shot, with Mutt Mackley as Chester Bennington and Gambino Penguin as Mike Shinoda. The Mackley revival ended with the series pitch for Mackley's Wardrobe in 2009.

Every Ape and His Brother
Aside from The Gerosha Chronicles, no other project in Dozerfleet was quite as busy as was Every Ape and His Brother. New song parodies were churned out pretty frequently throughout 2007-2009.

Bands
In addition to housing the Every Ape and His Brother song collection, Dozerfleet Records managed audio for other Dozerfleet projects. It also provided articles for Big Rapids local band Unlisted and short-lived Saginaw-based local band Burning Death Machine Against the Neo-Nazis of Sweden.

Later on, Burning Death Machine provided lyrics for the soundtrack of Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43. Unlisted's "Nothing Like Me" and "Carry On" featured in the YouTube trailer ad for The Sims 4: Oughties Big Rapids Living Stuff.

Farewell Graduate: A Day at the Open House
One high school graduate's open house party became a documentary.

Slovak Girls Keepin' Summer HOT!!!
A commissioned video for Luka Underground, this was a slideshow celebrating various Slovakian swimsuit models.

Task Delegator
When Connie Morcom's video streaming class in 2008 at Ferris State struggled with diagramming class group task delegations, this engaging chart was developed to make the process easier. It was reverse-engineered from a Simon game's design, and later modified to avoid any trademark or patent infringements.

Flying Flamingo Casino 2006
This event was given some photography coverage, courtesy of Dozerfleet Studios.

Snakes on a Plane: The Animated Series pitch
Dozerfleet Studios developed a pitch for a children's cartoon, inspired by Snakes on a Plane and various old 80s cartoons inspired by 80's action movies. Alas, New Line never agreed to work with an animation studio to pursue the project. It did, however, earn notable mention on Snakes on a Blog for how flabbergasted the blog operator was to learn that someone had the wherewithal to comprise an entire pitch for a TV series inspired by the movie.