Lunatics Project: Timelapse Screencasts

The main activity in March 2026 was to recreate broken shots for the Train sequence, and then complete compositing and assembly of shots for the whole sequence. This also included improvements to the railway set and re-renders that that required. ...

Production work, mostly in February 2026 (a little bit at the end of January). This was focused on the "Train" / "TR" sequence at the beginning of Lunatics! episode 1, "No Children in Space". 00:00 Titlecard 00:10 TR-3 Background Plates (Views...

Production work from December 2025. Still not quite there, but getting close to the end of production on the pilot. 00:05 LA-Launch Sequence Composited Re-Assembly 01:55 New Horizontal Brush Stroke Wipe Transitions (Used for LA-1-A/B) 02:11 ...

Timelapse of production work in November 2025: Lunatics Production 00:05 LA-6-A & B animation (NLA problems fixed) 01:04 LA-6 Rendering/Checking 01:56 LA-Launch Scene assembly 02:18 LA-4 Soyuz Ingress Checking 02:28 LA-Launch Sce...

Timelapse of production activities from October 2025. 00:00 Titlecard 00:05 Launch 1-D: waving on the gantry steps extended 00:38 Soyuz Rollout 1-W: gopher animation extended 00:48 Launch 4 "Soyuz Ingress": animation review 01:12 Launch 4-C...

The main event this month was a Zine Fair in Denton (annual "Denton Zine and Art Party" or "DZAP"). I had to be at this event to help out my daughter, so I decided to contribute. And so I made a Coloring Book (or Storybook) version of "No Children...

August was a tough month for me. I had CoViD for the first two weeks, then I worked on the "LA-6-A" and "LA-6-B" shots in the "Launch" sequence, trying to add lipsync, expressive animation, and finally a "ride" animation incorporating vibration fr...

July involved several iterations on the Launch sequence, particularly the "LA-2" shots, which are set in Mission Control. Towards the end of the month, I started work on lipsync and animation in the LA-6 shots set in the Soyuz interior. 00:04 R...

In June 2025, I completed the final stage for "Suiting Up" animation, which is compositing. Then I started relinking and reblocking LA-2 from the "Launch" scene. These are the shots in the Mission Control Room. This included re-adding extras and s...

This month, I finished the "Suiting Up" sequence sound and synchronization with the animation, as well as tweaking the character animation to correct many errors. At this point, I've signed off on the animation. The only things remaining are compo...

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March 2025 was a heavy production month, as I attempted to make a April 12th deadline (sorry, that didn't work out). Many small fixes to the Touring Baikonur, Press Conference, and Soyuz Rollout scenes. Also constructed a new replacement shot "SF-...

Timelapse (60X) of production work from February 2025. This month was mostly spent on archiving work (which is not included here), but I spent about seven hours to work out the process for compositing and masking out stray Freestyle ink lines w...

Timelapse of production work in November and December of 2024 (mostly December), leading to the New Years 2025 release of the whole episode for Patreon subscribers. This was prompted by the need to switch over to monthly subscriptions at Patreon, ...

Making of the Raven Rap music video. Over 7 days in October 2024, I created my very first stop-motion project, based on a rap version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", recorded by my son, N...

Making of Impossible Voyage Techno/FX Edition. Over about 5 days in October 2024, I created a soundtrack with music and effects to go with Georges Méliès' "Impossible Voyage" 1904 silent fi...

Although much of the Spring and Summer of 2024 was dedicated to technical work, I did manage to do some production too. This timelapse gathers work from July to October of 2024, by topic (although this is also approximately chronological): 00:0...

This was mostly a month for reports and documentation, with only a tiny bit of production and other activities. HIGHLIGHTS: 00:14 Audio Retiming for "LA-Launch" sequence of pilot. 02:25 Importing Stock Props from BlendSwap for "Mission Cont...

This is a timelapse I assembled from video I took in 2017, while attempting to build a Render Cluster based on a homebuilt Ikea "Helmer" based case. This ultimately did not pan out as I intended, due to problems with the power supply, and the p...

Summary of project progress from 2022. This would've been a post for the end of 2022, but I never made it, so I decided to make it now, after finishing the post for 2023. 2022 was dominated by the work on YunoHost as a new basis for our "Virtual S...

Activities for November & December 2023, as a 60X Timelapse (1 min = 1 hour), with music (no commentary). November had very little production work, so I've combined it with December. Highlights: (November) 00:13 Adding Teaser Trailer foo...