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Lunatics Project: Work in Progress

These are shots and sequences, as they are being worked on. May have SPOILERS for the episode. This channel is for those who want to see our process and check our progress, and who don't really care about the spoilers. It may get repetitive, as I have to iterate through the same shots and sequences a lot to fix problems.

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  1. 14-Segment LED Prop Demo Animation

    This is a simple demonstration and rigging test animation for a 14-segment display prop in Blender. It can display a choice of 22 messages (if you design them not to overlap, you could even do multiple messages at once). This is more than enough f...

  2. Shot Test: SF-3-A (Soyuz Ascending with Rocket Plume Effect)

    Test of the rocket plume effect with the Soyuz launch vehicle, which is the first shot in the "Soyuz Flight" sequence (SF) in "Lunatics!" episode 1 (it's in "block 3" because of editing changes -- block 1 groups all the cabin interior shots). T...

  3. "Lunatics!" Open Movie DVD Promotional

    Short promotional video showing what you get on the upcoming "Open Movie Edition" DVDs, which is the main / first release of the episodes. Music is "To Receive the Answer" by Distemper, CC By 3.0.

  4. Promo Turnaround: Joshua Farmer

    Character model turnaround for Dr. Sarah Allison, from "Lunatics!" (no sound)

  5. Promo Turnaround: Sarah Allison

    Character model turnaround for Dr. Sarah Allison, from "Lunatics!" Lunar geologist, EVA specialist.

  6. Promo Turnaround: Anya Titova

    Turnaround animation for the Anya Titova character model.

  7. Promo Turnaround: Robert Lerner

    Turnaround for International Space Foundation founder and colonist Rob Lerner. Written: Rosalyn Hunter Character Design: Daniel Fu Model: Bela Szabo, Keneisha Perry Rig: Keneisha Perry Turnaround Animation: Terry Hancock (no sound)

  8. Promo Turnaround: R. Allen Emerson

    Testing out a style for a promo video with a character turn-around video. Character of "Hiromi Aoki Lerner" from "Lunatics!" Concept: Rosalyn Hunter Art Design: Daniel Fu Model: Bela Szabo, Keneisha Perry Art Direction: Terry Hancock (no...

  9. Promo Turnaround: Hiromi Aoki Lerner

    Testing out a style for a promo video with a character turn-around video. Character of "Hiromi Aoki Lerner" from "Lunatics!" Concept: Rosalyn Hunter Art Design: Daniel Fu Model: Bela Szabo, Keneisha Perry Art Direction: Terry Hancock (no...

  10. Testing the Soyuz Launch Vehicle Re-rigging

    Re-rigged the Soyuz Launch Vehicle using armature and drivers. Adds more accurate movement for pod-staging, including the pods tumbling away from the vehicle.

  11. Completed Rocket Plume Effect

    Completed rocket-plume effect, from three different angles, with the sound effect. [NOTE (2022): Getting a decent non-photorealistic, but compelling, rocket plume special animation effect to match our 3D-anime-ish style was a challenge I spent ...

  12. Toon Rocket Plume 2020

    Revised rocket plume effect, test animation (no audio). After a lot of experimentation, I settled on this very simple effect as the most appropriate. It's mostly just a moving texture with a four-color ramp. NOTE (2022): this is NOT the final e...

  13. Revised Main Title Sequence (November 2020)

    Main title sequence intended for the 3-episode pilot arc, revised in November 2020 to fix some remaining title animation issues that had been bugging me. Sergei now has a portrait image. And some title animations have been tweaked to look a little...

  14. Paint-Render Animatic of S1E01-SR "Soyuz Rollout"

    This is a still-very-unfinished test animation of the "Soyuz Rollout" from "Prolog/No Children in Space", the pilot for "Lunatics!" ( http://lunatics.tv / http://www.patreon.com/lunatics ).

  15. "Dude... the grass is moving!"

    This is a good example of an animation mistake that didn't show up until final rendering. The grass in this shot is a billboard particle system. Normally, they are not supposed to move, and so the "Physics" simulation panel is set to "No". However...

  16. "Lunatics!" Trailer for Episode 1: Prolog / "No Children in Space"

    This is our third trailer and a proper preview for episode one, now that we have enough fully-rendered footage to make it. This trailer features Hiromi more, and includes a bit of the dialog. We're beginning rendering, although we're still work...

  17. Previz: Georgiana Lerner signs her name

    The director animates! It's no secret that I'm not the top character animator around here, but I am learning! I decided to do this one, because I was interested in the rigging to follow the signature effect (which is using the "dynamic paint re...

  18. Effects Test: Lander Flame & Debris Animation

    Revisiting this part of the project, now that I understand Blender texture nodes and other data structures better. This is a simple animation meant to represent the lander's retro rocket firing and stirring up dust on the Lunar surface. This is me...

  19. Animation Test - Mission Control Room (Monitor Flicker)

    This is a test of a flickering-monitor effect on the Mission Control Room set. Created for the "Lunatics!" animated pilot ( http://lunatics.tv ). It's really just a 2-second test, repeated 20 times, so you have some time to look at it. I'm not ...

  20. "Lunatics!" Trailer for ArlingCon 2017

    Revised preview trailer with title sequence for presentation at ArlingCon 2017.

  21. Soyuz Rollout Sequence (First Animatic, with "Warmachine" by Cyril Pereira)

    Animatic of a sequence for Lunatics, presented as an example in Free Software Magazine(ARCHIVE) - [Creating an Animatic Using Au...

  22. Comparison of Train Ext Backgrounds for TR-3 Sequence

    This is the train interior action from "No Children in Space", with two different methods for handling the background plates (what you see out the windows). At the top is the first method I used for the "New Years 2025" draft edit. I basically ju...

  23. Press Conference Draft 2 (2016)

    Second draft of the Press Conference multi-cam cutting. Included in the Feb 2016 Patreon Newsletter. (Uploaded October 2025).

  24. Press Conference Draft 1 (2016)

    First Draft of Press Conference Animation included in February 2016 Patreon Newsletter. (Uploaded October 2025, while converting the 2016 Newsletter.

  25. "Glory to the Conquerors of Space" Monument Fly-Around Test Shot (2015)

    Fully-rendered test shot animation from 2015, flying around the "Glory to the Conquerors of Space" monument in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, from "No Children in Space". [No Sound] This was one of the first fully-rendered NPR3D shots, which helped to ...

  26. 2011 to 2015 Side-By-Side Train Wheel Shot

    Side-by-side comparison of 2011 storyboard animatic of train wheel and 2015 Blender animation.

  27. Georgiana somersault animation test

    2015 animation tests by Keneisha Perry. Georgiana: Low-gravity somersault. Pad crew man walking. Lipsync animation tests with Georgiana and Hiromi. Character design by Daniel Fu. Model by Bela Szabo and Keneisha Perry. Rigging and animatio...

  28. Previz Animation test of Georgiana and Hiromi

    2015 Screencast of animation in Blender for Train sequence in pilot episode.

  29. Ride Animation Test (Previz) - Sergei Only

    Work-in-progress previz. This is what I mean by "ride animation". No Sound. This is only the acceleration couches and Sergei. I don't have a rig to connect the characters to the seats, so I just animate their "Torso" bone to match the seats' mo...

  30. LA-2-D: Transition to Capcom in MIssion Control (GL Previz)

    I animated the Capcom responding to Sergei in the animation file for this shot, but then I realized it took too long to get around to her. So I reblocked the camera move to go more directly to the Capcom. This sacrifices an overview of the big scr...

  31. Lunatics Project Animation Tests (April 2013)

    Animation tests from 2013. Includes Soyuz staging with Chris Kuhn's original model and rig, and animation of Georgiana for the Teaser Trailer, using Andrew Pray's "Georgiana" model (this was later replaced with a different character model).

  32. Lunatics S1E01-TR3 Character Animation Cameras

    Multi-camera view of Work-In-Progress animation for the train interior sequence (TR3). These are cameras I set up in the animation file to use for animating. I rendered this GL previz video to help me decide on camera angles for the camera dire...

  33. Re-Timing / Previz Test - S1E01-LA "Launch" Sequence

    Test render of re-timed launch sequence from "No Children in Space". After re-assembling the sequence, I felt parts of the sequence were too rushed, so I tried stretching some shots, and making other adjustments. The sequence is now about a minut...

  34. Lunatics S1E01-SR Sequence (2023-08-31) Pre-Compos.

    2023-08-31 Status of "Soyuz Rollout" sequence from the pilot episode, "No Children in Space". Probably final animation? There are obviously things that could be improved, but I need to move on to other stuff. Rendered and pre-composited, wit...

  35. Seq: TB-TouringBaikonur - Check w/ Temp Audio (2023-08-26)

    Render of current status for sequence "TB-TouringBaikonur" from "Lunatics!" S1E01 "No Children in Space". Pre-compositing render with metadata overlay (this is before post-compositing, at which time I can do some cleanup on stray lines or add m...

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These are shots and sequences, as they are being worked on. May have SPOILERS for the episode. This channel is for those who want to see our process and check our progress, and who don't really care about the spoilers. It may get repetitive, as I have to iterate through the same shots and sequences a lot to fix problems.

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These are shots and sequences, as they are being worked on. May have SPOILERS for the episode. This channel is for those who want to see our process and check our progress, and who don't really care about the spoilers. It may get repetitive, as I have to iterate through the same shots and sequences...

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