Lunatics Project: Timelapse Screencasts

Timelapse of Production Work on Lunatics in July 2026. This month has included a lot of technical work that is not included, but this timelapse shows the work on audio production, which continues after "picture lock" in June, when I finished th...

This is the final stages of the visual animation production for the pilot episode of "Lunatics!" (not counting credits and other on-screen text elements). 00:00 Titlecard 00:05 Updating out-of-date composites 04:10 Updating Episode Assembly ...

A 10-minute overview of the production and development work I did for "Lunatics!" and related projects in 2021. Happy New Year!

Screencast logs of April, sorted out by project: 38.6 hrs on "Lunatics!" Production: mainly the "LA-Launch" and "SF-SoyuzFlight" sequences, and then constructing a new whole-episode animatic. 25.3 hrs on Anansi Blender Extensions add-on (ABX...

Testing parameter ranges and texture development for animated cloud effect used in the timelapse sequences in the "Lunatics!" pilot episode.

This is topical summary of my worklog screencasts for the entire process of creating the Sky Rig for the "timelapse" sequences in the "Lunatics!" pilot. This includes a lot of missteps, but doesn't include research or tutorial training time, altho...

I'm starting to assemble the components into a new animatic. I've created the Audacity sound stems, Ardour audio mixes, and Kdenlive video edits for each sequence, and started replacing shots with updated GL renders showing newer character animati...

This is the first "Worklog" video that is mostly production work, so I can post it. I've found making these worklog screencasts is a useful motivational and analysis tool. This one shows what it's really like to start learning a new piece of so...

In May 2026, I got to the end of the animation for our pilot episode, "No Children in Space", and started assembling the episode. This makes the visual side of the project nearly complete (I was still working on a few items at the end of the month...

In April 2026, I worked almost entirely on the character animation and interior shots for the Soyuz Flight sequence in our pilot episode, "No Children in Space" of "Lunatics!" 00:11 Basic Ink & Paint Prep for SF Sequence 02:00 Replacement Ted...

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...