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"Lunatics!" S1E01 "Prolog/No Children in Space", WIP 2021-04-27 (SPOILERS)
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"Lunatics!" S1E01 "Prolog/No Children in Space", WIP 2021-04-27 (SPOILERS)
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Skeletal Face Rig Demo
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R&D: The need for "diff" and "patch" operators for Blender files
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R&D: The need for "diff" and "patch" operators for Blender files
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Tumbling Letter Title Effect (Part 1 - Physics)
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Tumbling Letter Title Effect (Part 1 - Physics)
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Another fun demo animation from the archive. I was indeed "working on the railroad all day long"...
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/vu8AsAY4Tx3N8HsqPQF5ML
Of course, this is the exterior set for the "Train" sequence. It is mostly seen in reflection in the actual scene. We see very little of it directly.
I had also done a big comparison test on how to handle the weeds on the embankment. My first attempt was with low-poly 3D modeled plants. But a manageable number and vertex count did not look good. So instead, these are a particle system with painted billboards for each plant. There's still lots of parallax from the movement, because there are many individual billboards at different distances.
This became the model I used for vegetation for most of the episode.
Sadly, I probably won't get much use of this technique on the Moon.
#LunaticsProject #Blender3D #OpenMovie #Sets -
Another fun demo animation from the archive. I was indeed "working on the railroad all day long"...
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/vu8AsAY4Tx3N8HsqPQF5ML
Of course, this is the exterior set for the "Train" sequence. It is mostly seen in reflection in the actual scene. We see very little of it directly.
I had also done a big comparison test on how to handle the weeds on the embankment. My first attempt was with low-poly 3D modeled plants. But a manageable number and vertex count did not look good. So instead, these are a particle system with painted billboards for each plant. There's still lots of parallax from the movement, because there are many individual billboards at different distances.
This became the model I used for vegetation for most of the episode.
Sadly, I probably won't get much use of this technique on the Moon.
#LunaticsProject #Blender3D #OpenMovie #Sets -
Continuing to re-upload the old broken videos on our PeerTube.
Here's a silly one for the late-night crowd.
"Learning Curve"
This is a collection of me attempting to animate Georgiana's newly-rigged face.
You'll notice this is not the final version of the character model. She went through some more revisions after this.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/2JcFmGQVdWM8QfxqmDXXk7
#LunaticsProject #Featurettes #Animation #Blender3D #Characters #OpenMovie -
Continuing to re-upload the old broken videos on our PeerTube.
Here's a silly one for the late-night crowd.
"Learning Curve"
This is a collection of me attempting to animate Georgiana's newly-rigged face.
You'll notice this is not the final version of the character model. She went through some more revisions after this.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/2JcFmGQVdWM8QfxqmDXXk7
#LunaticsProject #Featurettes #Animation #Blender3D #Characters #OpenMovie -
Revised 2013 Kickstarter Pitch Video
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Revised 2013 Kickstarter Pitch Video
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I'm considering creating a side-by-side of this 2013 animatic with the 2026 fully-animated version. It'll require a lot of stretching and squeezing -- some shots were cut, many were different lengths, etc.
But it'd probably still make a good DVD featurette.
We've come a LONG way since this.
#LunaticsProject #ReleaseDVD #Featurettes -
I'm considering creating a side-by-side of this 2013 animatic with the 2026 fully-animated version. It'll require a lot of stretching and squeezing -- some shots were cut, many were different lengths, etc.
But it'd probably still make a good DVD featurette.
We've come a LONG way since this.
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MY "13 years ago", though, was the release of the first full animatic of our pilot episode. Which has, through, later decisions, become three episodes. I also had to break up the original one-hour pilot into smaller chunks to publish it on YouTube.
And semi-coincidentally, I broke it in more-or-less the same places as the 3-episode breakdown. SO... these videos roughly correspond to animatics for episodes 1-3.
VERY rough work, obviously. These are animatics. This was what we delivered to supporters of the first "Pre-Production" Kickstarter (on DVD). It was actually a bit more than we promised. I had originally said we'd do temporary voices for it.
But in fact, by the time we put this out in early 2013, we had already recorded the real voice work for the episode, so I included that. This version also used upgraded storyboards, where I composited in the best-available character concept art drawings from Daniel to fit the shot, wherever possible. There's also a mishmash of other techniques -- edited photos, Blender animatics (for the moon shuttle in particular), and so on. It's uneven. And SOME of the minor voices are temporary.
Of course, the real purpose of an animatic is not for fans, but to use as a guide for production.
Part 1 - Roughly the current "No Children in Space"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/mAM35CbtWoAAoJzNELWTUd
Part 2 - Roughly the current 2nd episode, with working title "From the Earth..." But I've also considered calling it "Translunar" or "TLI".
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/2d4JaunhNW99xX9jWtEYbP
Part 3 - Roughly the current 3rd episode, with working title "...To the Moon" But I'm considering "The Landing" or "The Arrival" or "Iridium". Don't know yet.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5WK7XfNyyK5yU3Fg5vYTKy
Part 4 - This is mostly just the credits, but includes the dinner-table scene at the end of episode 3.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/7F7qtL5YPZbJtu7FuHfaK3
As you can see, I am still working on producing these. It is the first segment that I just completed animation on, which is now our 22-minute pilot, "No Children in Space". The titles is a quote from the voice-over that laments that, up to this time, there had been "no children in space", which of course, changes during this episode.
#LunaticsProject #Animatic #PilotEpisode #MemoryLane #History -
MY "13 years ago", though, was the release of the first full animatic of our pilot episode. Which has, through, later decisions, become three episodes. I also had to break up the original one-hour pilot into smaller chunks to publish it on YouTube.
And semi-coincidentally, I broke it in more-or-less the same places as the 3-episode breakdown. SO... these videos roughly correspond to animatics for episodes 1-3.
VERY rough work, obviously. These are animatics. This was what we delivered to supporters of the first "Pre-Production" Kickstarter (on DVD). It was actually a bit more than we promised. I had originally said we'd do temporary voices for it.
But in fact, by the time we put this out in early 2013, we had already recorded the real voice work for the episode, so I included that. This version also used upgraded storyboards, where I composited in the best-available character concept art drawings from Daniel to fit the shot, wherever possible. There's also a mishmash of other techniques -- edited photos, Blender animatics (for the moon shuttle in particular), and so on. It's uneven. And SOME of the minor voices are temporary.
Of course, the real purpose of an animatic is not for fans, but to use as a guide for production.
Part 1 - Roughly the current "No Children in Space"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/mAM35CbtWoAAoJzNELWTUd
Part 2 - Roughly the current 2nd episode, with working title "From the Earth..." But I've also considered calling it "Translunar" or "TLI".
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/2d4JaunhNW99xX9jWtEYbP
Part 3 - Roughly the current 3rd episode, with working title "...To the Moon" But I'm considering "The Landing" or "The Arrival" or "Iridium". Don't know yet.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5WK7XfNyyK5yU3Fg5vYTKy
Part 4 - This is mostly just the credits, but includes the dinner-table scene at the end of episode 3.
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/7F7qtL5YPZbJtu7FuHfaK3
As you can see, I am still working on producing these. It is the first segment that I just completed animation on, which is now our 22-minute pilot, "No Children in Space". The titles is a quote from the voice-over that laments that, up to this time, there had been "no children in space", which of course, changes during this episode.
#LunaticsProject #Animatic #PilotEpisode #MemoryLane #History -
Lunatics Pilot: Storyboard Animatic - 1 of 4 (2013)
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Lunatics Pilot: Storyboard Animatic - 1 of 4 (2013)
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Lunatics Animated Series Pilot (Kickstarter Pitch - 2012-07-14)
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Lunatics Animated Series Pilot (Kickstarter Pitch - 2012-07-14)
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Oh wait. I just found the old record. So it had been uploaded before. Still one of the broken videos, though. :ani_dunno: #LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History
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Oh wait. I just found the old record. So it had been uploaded before. Still one of the broken videos, though. :ani_dunno: #LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History
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Huh. It appears I never uploaded the concept art video for Sarah, when I migrated to PeerTube. It was in a different folder, which seems to have stuff that wasn't public on YouTube for whatever reason (even though I am extremely careful about licensing, I would still get weird flags on YouTube videos, which is one of the reasons I left). I am really not sure what could've happened to this one, though.
Anyway, it's up now. Hopefully not a duplicate:
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/c9bmY8yXcRPrU2UokLqcf5
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History -
Huh. It appears I never uploaded the concept art video for Sarah, when I migrated to PeerTube. It was in a different folder, which seems to have stuff that wasn't public on YouTube for whatever reason (even though I am extremely careful about licensing, I would still get weird flags on YouTube videos, which is one of the reasons I left). I am really not sure what could've happened to this one, though.
Anyway, it's up now. Hopefully not a duplicate:
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/c9bmY8yXcRPrU2UokLqcf5
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History -
LunaticsSoundtrack: "Magic Of Freedom" Distemper
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LunaticsSoundtrack: "Magic Of Freedom" Distemper
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Lunatics "No Children in Space" Soundtrack: "Fairytale of Time" by Yunus
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Lunatics "No Children in Space" Soundtrack: "Fairytale of Time" by Yunus
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Lunatics - Lunar Landing - "My Desire is Now" by Gotika
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Lunatics - Lunar Landing - "My Desire is Now" by Gotika
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No Children in Space Soundtrack - "Soyuz Launch" Music
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No Children in Space Soundtrack - "Soyuz Launch" Music
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Of course, the usual practice with a Kickstarter or other crowd-funding campaign is to make a pitch video to go with it. We made this one when we launched the campaign, although we later replaced the video.
I hadn't watched this in years. I was afraid I was going to cringe a bit watching it. I hadn't done a lot of video work back then, especially with me on screen.
Interestingly, Rosalyn does a voice-over, but doesn't appear on screen. I think she did those recordings with the Zoom H1 mic. I don't remember what we used for the live video here, but I remember that it was wholly inadequate to the task; I had to synchronize the sound from a separate mic; and getting sound sync that didn't look like a bad dub was really hard for me. I learned that 1/30 of a second is actually a very noticeably sync error, so it was necessary to adjust the sound by fractional frames to get it right. Also, the camera's timing was not completely stable, so it drifted relative to the audio.
Janky! We've gotten a LOT better, since.
But then, of course, we were proposing animation, not live-action. :ani_dunno:
Also, 16-years-ago me was a whole lot younger, huh..?
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/fWBY4izmphyhhvXjctKBVt
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History -
Of course, the usual practice with a Kickstarter or other crowd-funding campaign is to make a pitch video to go with it. We made this one when we launched the campaign, although we later replaced the video.
I hadn't watched this in years. I was afraid I was going to cringe a bit watching it. I hadn't done a lot of video work back then, especially with me on screen.
Interestingly, Rosalyn does a voice-over, but doesn't appear on screen. I think she did those recordings with the Zoom H1 mic. I don't remember what we used for the live video here, but I remember that it was wholly inadequate to the task; I had to synchronize the sound from a separate mic; and getting sound sync that didn't look like a bad dub was really hard for me. I learned that 1/30 of a second is actually a very noticeably sync error, so it was necessary to adjust the sound by fractional frames to get it right. Also, the camera's timing was not completely stable, so it drifted relative to the audio.
Janky! We've gotten a LOT better, since.
But then, of course, we were proposing animation, not live-action. :ani_dunno:
Also, 16-years-ago me was a whole lot younger, huh..?
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/fWBY4izmphyhhvXjctKBVt
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #History -
It is going to take AWHILE to get through all these old videos.
You may note that a lot of these videos feature music from Jamendo under CC By or By-SA licenses.
I actually spent basically 2008-2010 listening to NOTHING BUT free-public-licensed music tracks, mostly from Jamendo. I essentially gave up listening to pop/rock music on the radio, and just vetted all these tracks. There were hundreds. Many were not good. Many were mediocre. A few were amazing and a few became favorites. My picks are now in a large archive on my local disk.
Sadly, I didn't exactly keep up with this, so they may become a bit "dated" over time.
There are also just a few tracks where I contacted artists who had released under less-generous license terms and acquired permission to re-release under CC By-SA. That included J.T. Bruce's "Bellatrix", which serves as the main soundtrack for the Lunar Transportation System, brash, orchestral, metal, and upbeat. Most of the artists I talked to liked the idea of doing this sort of thing, BTW.
I also uploaded this video from 2012, though that's getting a little ahead of the timeline:
"Bellatrix" TLI Mix (this is a cut-down from a much longer track)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5Y7ZhSJU5oJCrdTnfA6q6u
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Music -
It is going to take AWHILE to get through all these old videos.
You may note that a lot of these videos feature music from Jamendo under CC By or By-SA licenses.
I actually spent basically 2008-2010 listening to NOTHING BUT free-public-licensed music tracks, mostly from Jamendo. I essentially gave up listening to pop/rock music on the radio, and just vetted all these tracks. There were hundreds. Many were not good. Many were mediocre. A few were amazing and a few became favorites. My picks are now in a large archive on my local disk.
Sadly, I didn't exactly keep up with this, so they may become a bit "dated" over time.
There are also just a few tracks where I contacted artists who had released under less-generous license terms and acquired permission to re-release under CC By-SA. That included J.T. Bruce's "Bellatrix", which serves as the main soundtrack for the Lunar Transportation System, brash, orchestral, metal, and upbeat. Most of the artists I talked to liked the idea of doing this sort of thing, BTW.
I also uploaded this video from 2012, though that's getting a little ahead of the timeline:
"Bellatrix" TLI Mix (this is a cut-down from a much longer track)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5Y7ZhSJU5oJCrdTnfA6q6u
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Music -
In 2011, Kickstarter was getting a lot of hype, and I thought maybe I'd try crowdfunding. I also recognized that my own attempts at character design were sadly lacking. I remembered Daniel Fu, who had worked on a previous project, and I thought I'd approach him with an offer to commission the designs.
This would be the bulk of the funds from the Kickstarter we'd set up. I would also work on the mech side of the Concept Art and continue developing process, storyboards, and direction. Rosalyn Hunter and I would finish writing the screenplay for a pilot episode (this evolved quite a bit after that).
So I started specifically producing video content to use in the Kickstarter campaign. I also did an initial commission for Daniel to create character concept pages -- the idea was to use these in the pitch, get funding which would then pay him for model-sheets and other "serious" character design art, which would then be the input for 3D character modeling.
Likewise, I would begin drawing up set and mechanical plans, as well as finishing the storyboards for the entire pilot episode. The final work product would be the concept art / modelsheet drawings, and a one-hour pilot episode storyboard animatic.
Of course, I reused the videos I had created for Free Software Magazine, but I made several new ones. I just re-uploaded these:
Georgiana Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/h8ac5KVezRxw9pNGsiSvyi
Lo-Fi Proxy of the Lunar Transportation System "Moon Shuttle"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/wxgFQnNa865wUBkD8LgQSZ
This model was entirely by me. My Blender skills were pretty basic at the time.
Hiromi Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/9YFUig9aeegbV6t9kk8uEy
Staging Spacecraft with Moving Camera
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/w76hb5yhqrDi77uBQZAipk
This was a technique test in Blender, using constraints to move the camera during a spatially complex shot. This was mainly to go with a Free Software Magazine article, but was closely related to Lunatics.
Josh Farmer Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/i5o4DVZvZgUFSZngrk7Y5p
Yes, it's a little on-the-nose that our agricultural expert is named "Farmer". All the characters kind of started out as satire, and gradually developed more layers during writing and production.
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
In 2011, Kickstarter was getting a lot of hype, and I thought maybe I'd try crowdfunding. I also recognized that my own attempts at character design were sadly lacking. I remembered Daniel Fu, who had worked on a previous project, and I thought I'd approach him with an offer to commission the designs.
This would be the bulk of the funds from the Kickstarter we'd set up. I would also work on the mech side of the Concept Art and continue developing process, storyboards, and direction. Rosalyn Hunter and I would finish writing the screenplay for a pilot episode (this evolved quite a bit after that).
So I started specifically producing video content to use in the Kickstarter campaign. I also did an initial commission for Daniel to create character concept pages -- the idea was to use these in the pitch, get funding which would then pay him for model-sheets and other "serious" character design art, which would then be the input for 3D character modeling.
Likewise, I would begin drawing up set and mechanical plans, as well as finishing the storyboards for the entire pilot episode. The final work product would be the concept art / modelsheet drawings, and a one-hour pilot episode storyboard animatic.
Of course, I reused the videos I had created for Free Software Magazine, but I made several new ones. I just re-uploaded these:
Georgiana Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/h8ac5KVezRxw9pNGsiSvyi
Lo-Fi Proxy of the Lunar Transportation System "Moon Shuttle"
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/wxgFQnNa865wUBkD8LgQSZ
This model was entirely by me. My Blender skills were pretty basic at the time.
Hiromi Lerner Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/9YFUig9aeegbV6t9kk8uEy
Staging Spacecraft with Moving Camera
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/w76hb5yhqrDi77uBQZAipk
This was a technique test in Blender, using constraints to move the camera during a spatially complex shot. This was mainly to go with a Free Software Magazine article, but was closely related to Lunatics.
Josh Farmer Character Concept Art
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/i5o4DVZvZgUFSZngrk7Y5p
Yes, it's a little on-the-nose that our agricultural expert is named "Farmer". All the characters kind of started out as satire, and gradually developed more layers during writing and production.
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
I have begun re-uploading early project videos. So, why not have a little "memory lane" posting, while I'm at it...
In 2010, I was not fully committed to doing this project, but I was playing around with it, and I had posted several experimental videos on YouTube, along with articles for Free Software Magazine, an online magazine devoted to FOSS topics, that I wrote for from 2005 to 2013.
The earliest videos in this set are from that period:
Soyuz Rollout Animatic (Using Reference Photos)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/grChLqTPPPTa6VXPy2PJPL
(I re-uploaded this one awhile back when the failure was first reported to me).
A Storyboard Animatic Using Inkscape and Blender
(I did two versions of this for some reason -- one has some color. Otherwise, no difference):
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5525fHVs7kYiQnkF1zDKaE
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/hqcWUSEFQuLPKVyL1XfcHU
This was the first incarnation of that shot at the beginning of the episode (it's actually the 2nd shot, after the cosmic zoom shot).
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
I have begun re-uploading early project videos. So, why not have a little "memory lane" posting, while I'm at it...
In 2010, I was not fully committed to doing this project, but I was playing around with it, and I had posted several experimental videos on YouTube, along with articles for Free Software Magazine, an online magazine devoted to FOSS topics, that I wrote for from 2005 to 2013.
The earliest videos in this set are from that period:
Soyuz Rollout Animatic (Using Reference Photos)
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/grChLqTPPPTa6VXPy2PJPL
(I re-uploaded this one awhile back when the failure was first reported to me).
A Storyboard Animatic Using Inkscape and Blender
(I did two versions of this for some reason -- one has some color. Otherwise, no difference):
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/5525fHVs7kYiQnkF1zDKaE
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/hqcWUSEFQuLPKVyL1XfcHU
This was the first incarnation of that shot at the beginning of the episode (it's actually the 2nd shot, after the cosmic zoom shot).
#LunaticsProject #PeerTube #Video #FilmMaking #PreProduction -
Trans-Lunar Injection Sequence - "Bellatrix" by J.T. Bruce
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Trans-Lunar Injection Sequence - "Bellatrix" by J.T. Bruce
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A little "Lunatics!" 2026 status update:
This has been a long, hard road -- over a decade, in fact, with many bumps, side excursions, and detail that will require several chapters in a book I plan to write to actually explain, but...
:ani_dab_r: ANIMATION ON EPISODE ONE IS FINISHED! :ani_dab_l:
:smug_dance:
I AM NOW TRANSFORMED INTO A "SOUND GUY".
:ab1nzyblob2::kermit_shout::microphone::audacity::freesound::archive:
At least for awhile.
(Posted to pin). #Animation #Audio #SoundDesign #Audacity #Ardour #Foley #Ambience #SoundFX #Introduction #LunaticsProject -
A little "Lunatics!" 2026 status update:
This has been a long, hard road -- over a decade, in fact, with many bumps, side excursions, and detail that will require several chapters in a book I plan to write to actually explain, but...
:ani_dab_r: ANIMATION ON EPISODE ONE IS FINISHED! :ani_dab_l:
:smug_dance:
I AM NOW TRANSFORMED INTO A "SOUND GUY".
:ab1nzyblob2::kermit_shout::microphone::audacity::freesound::archive:
At least for awhile.
(Posted to pin). #Animation #Audio #SoundDesign #Audacity #Ardour #Foley #Ambience #SoundFX #Introduction #LunaticsProject -
Okay. Well, I can't share this on my broken Misskey, so I'll just share it here. "Ghostly gopher oversees the launch preparations".
I was checking the timecodes for a revised render, and the shot with the timecodes doesn't include the gopher.
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Okay. Well, I can't share this on my broken Misskey, so I'll just share it here. "Ghostly gopher oversees the launch preparations".
I was checking the timecodes for a revised render, and the shot with the timecodes doesn't include the gopher.
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It's always fun to give some character action to the background characters. I like how the one porter is sort of startled by the other one's chess move, which he made while the first one was distracted by the people walking by. Sneaky bastard!
I have forgotten where I got this chess game. It's actually a few plays from early in a tournament game I found a record for, though. So the piece positions should actually make sense.
(I'm posting on my personal account, because the video uploads work here. One of the things I want to fix on my Misskey installation. There's always something to fix!)
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It's always fun to give some character action to the background characters. I like how the one porter is sort of startled by the other one's chess move, which he made while the first one was distracted by the people walking by. Sneaky bastard!
I have forgotten where I got this chess game. It's actually a few plays from early in a tournament game I found a record for, though. So the piece positions should actually make sense.
(I'm posting on my personal account, because the video uploads work here. One of the things I want to fix on my Misskey installation. There's always something to fix!)
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And the reply from Georgiana.
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And the reply from Georgiana.
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Well. Thanks to some feedback I got this weekend, I have discovered that some of my older videos on PeerTube are broken. I don't know if those just broke when I upgraded to v8, or if they've been like that for a long time. I suspect it's the latter.
Probably due to issues with failed migration away from object storage. This will take some tedious tinkering to fix. In the end, I suspect it will be easier to just re-upload new copies of the videos in question (I should have offline copies of them all, though it may take some digging to find which ones I need).
If you find playback failures on https://tv.filmfreedom.net this is probably what's going on. Sorry!
I am but a poor sad part-time sysadmin and only sort of know what I'm doing. #PeerTube #TechnicalDifficulties #FilmFreedom #LunaticsProject -
Well. Thanks to some feedback I got this weekend, I have discovered that some of my older videos on PeerTube are broken. I don't know if those just broke when I upgraded to v8, or if they've been like that for a long time. I suspect it's the latter.
Probably due to issues with failed migration away from object storage. This will take some tedious tinkering to fix. In the end, I suspect it will be easier to just re-upload new copies of the videos in question (I should have offline copies of them all, though it may take some digging to find which ones I need).
If you find playback failures on https://tv.filmfreedom.net this is probably what's going on. Sorry!
I am but a poor sad part-time sysadmin and only sort of know what I'm doing. #PeerTube #TechnicalDifficulties #FilmFreedom #LunaticsProject -
Okay. This is good step. I now have a static archive of my Production Log, up to October 2025 on the static droplet:
Looks like it works!
https://lunatics.tv/prodlog_archive
Not yet attached to the release site. I think I'm going to replace the "News" link (which currently links to the live Wordpress Production Log) with a little static fanout page with links to the different news sources for the project, including the static archive (which is mainly in case the live one isn't available).
This is shaping up. #LunaticsProject #Website -
Okay. This is good step. I now have a static archive of my Production Log, up to October 2025 on the static droplet:
Looks like it works!
https://lunatics.tv/prodlog_archive
Not yet attached to the release site. I think I'm going to replace the "News" link (which currently links to the live Wordpress Production Log) with a little static fanout page with links to the different news sources for the project, including the static archive (which is mainly in case the live one isn't available).
This is shaping up. #LunaticsProject #Website -
I've been upgrading my "Lunatics!" websites.
The main obstacle was removing the weird setup I had used for PeerTube before. Once I got that back to normal, the upgrade itself was very smooth.
Then I took some time to refine the look of Wordpress (my "Production Log") and PeerTube (now at v7.3). I think they look pretty nice now -- probably better than before.
I haven't really learned to use the new features in PeerTube, yet. It's supposed to allow for moving the video storage location, which I'd like to do -- the current cloud-based object storage approach is kind of inconvenient, and I think I want to go back to local storage.
The only app that I couldn't upgrade smoothly was Misskey, because the app package is flagged as "broken" (and has been for awhile -- unfortunately the Misskey app for YunoHost is not very actively maintained). I think I'm going to try forcing it to upgrade anyway and see what happens -- if it is indeed unusable, I can roll back to the snapshot, so no big loss.
Overall this has been a good experience.
I'm also looking into installing or re-installing apps that I had not had working -- starting with Nextcloud.
#LunaticsProject #Website -
I've been upgrading my "Lunatics!" websites.
The main obstacle was removing the weird setup I had used for PeerTube before. Once I got that back to normal, the upgrade itself was very smooth.
Then I took some time to refine the look of Wordpress (my "Production Log") and PeerTube (now at v7.3). I think they look pretty nice now -- probably better than before.
I haven't really learned to use the new features in PeerTube, yet. It's supposed to allow for moving the video storage location, which I'd like to do -- the current cloud-based object storage approach is kind of inconvenient, and I think I want to go back to local storage.
The only app that I couldn't upgrade smoothly was Misskey, because the app package is flagged as "broken" (and has been for awhile -- unfortunately the Misskey app for YunoHost is not very actively maintained). I think I'm going to try forcing it to upgrade anyway and see what happens -- if it is indeed unusable, I can roll back to the snapshot, so no big loss.
Overall this has been a good experience.
I'm also looking into installing or re-installing apps that I had not had working -- starting with Nextcloud.
#LunaticsProject #Website -
I've been telling myself for a long time that I would update my Lunatics landing page as soon as I got my custom site generator ("LunaGen" FWIW) back to working.
Well, I decided to just edit the damned pages directly. It's not that hard.
I fixed the broken links to the dynamic (YunoHost) site where the project news blog and interactive stuff lives.
And then I also removed the Vimeo embeds and replaced them with PeerTube embeds from our own instance.
I know this is not a big change from the outside, but it's some important housekeeping for me to take care of.
I'm afraid the preview has not been updated. I plan to do a re-cut with current versions of all the shots -- but there are still two I haven't remade yet.
https://lunatics.tv
#LunaticsProject #Website -
I've been telling myself for a long time that I would update my Lunatics landing page as soon as I got my custom site generator ("LunaGen" FWIW) back to working.
Well, I decided to just edit the damned pages directly. It's not that hard.
I fixed the broken links to the dynamic (YunoHost) site where the project news blog and interactive stuff lives.
And then I also removed the Vimeo embeds and replaced them with PeerTube embeds from our own instance.
I know this is not a big change from the outside, but it's some important housekeeping for me to take care of.
I'm afraid the preview has not been updated. I plan to do a re-cut with current versions of all the shots -- but there are still two I haven't remade yet.
https://lunatics.tv
#LunaticsProject #Website -
Film making is a constant tug-of-war between "artistic perfectionism" and "get it DONE!"
Sergei's lip-sync in LA-6-A is maybe a little too subtle. I could go back and increase how much his jaw moves... :unsure_fry:
Or, I could say "eff that, print that baby!" :kermit:
https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/r5KusHQtedmZgjRWVXq4gy
#LunaticsProject #Animation #Blender3D #OpenMovie