Darth Venal said:
Thanks.

As for the watermark, those images are less than 15% of the quality of the originals so it doesn't really matter. And all my work is automatically copyrighted through my job, so even if someone were to try ripping off my full-res stuff I'm still the legal owner. Not that I'd ever sue a fan editor, but it's nice to know I have legal claim to anything I produce. I'm only protective over fully original work.

I'm really hoping the final product works as well as we're hoping. But when you've looked at it so many times while working on it, it can really be hard to have an objective eye. I just think the way Alderaan is destroyed is lousy; it literally explodes - an entire planet - the second the green beam hits it. I don't care how big your gun is, a planet is going to take a bit more time to tear apart than that. So that's where we're going with it.

Unless you are granted permission from Lucasfilm and Paramount you can't claim copyright over images produced from manipulating elements from Star Wars or Star Trek. That would be like makers of Pink Five attempting to sue someone for editing their work into another fan film. Seeking permission first would naturally be the polite thing to do.

Items of your own devising would be your intellectual property but none of us is George Lucas (at least I don't think so) ;-)