Rigging for the "MoonTruck" model for "Lunatics!" Presented by Chris Kuhn, who created this model and the constraints-based control rig for it. [NOTE (2022): The components of this model have been color-coded for simpler modeling and rigging, ...
Keneisha Perry has redesigned the facial rigs for Lunatics, replacing the original shape-key-based rigs with a simpler skeletal rig. This is faster to apply and may be simpler to animate. They still work with Papagayo, as this demo shows. She's al...
A multiple-camera configuration allows animating a scene just once, and capturing the action with several cameras. Although Blender has a facility for switching cameras during rendering, it does not allow for any overlap for transitions (or to all...
In this 2nd tutorial on lipsync with Papagayo for Blender, I explain how to import the MOHO .dat lipsync file into Blender for animation. Direct link to the download page for the script on our site: http://rs.lunatics.tv/pages/view.php?ref=262
A 23-minute introduction to the Lunatics! Project, emphasizing the project team, size, history, and comparisons to other free-culture / open-source animation projects. Also examines the Non-Photorealistic (NPR) style ("toon-shading and ink") that ...
This 2-minute tutorial explains how the Lunatics! characters should be linked into a shot file for animation. There are 6 steps outlined here: 1. Link the character group 2. Link the Rigify script for the character's armature 3. Link the Luna...
Keneisha Perry presents a tutorial on the hair shader system she worked out for our characters. This uses a directional control object and tangent shading to get the desired highlights in the hair, with a minimum of geometry and texturing.
This is a test of some concepts for animating Rob Lerner for our title sequence. I'm not 100% happy with any of these, but there's some interesting effects. The "wiggle" effect is created by using two separate animated Freestyle settings and sw...
This 2-minute tutorial explains the final steps in preparing one of our characters for animation in Lunatics. This includes setting up the UI scripts, grouping character elements, and naming them for easy linking into the animation file. Coming...
This tutorial shows how we import a 3rd-party Blender model into the Lunatics! source, taking care to track attribution and licensing metadata. Does not address the "tooning" process -- see earlier tutorials for that. Nor does it address groupi...
Demonstrates the basic operations for working with Subversion via the RapidSVN client: "update", "commit", "add", "delete". See the earlier tutorial on Subversion for how to get the initial checkout of a working copy. This is general SVN-usage ...
I'm working my way through the animation learning curve! For ["Lunatics!" Open Movie Project](http://lunatics.tv). This is the new model of Georgiana for the Baikonur scenes in "No Children in Space", with the updated body/face rig which we ar...
This is a test render of this shot in its present state. It's very definitely "work-in-progress", but I need to see fully rendered animation now and then to get a better feel for how things are working. The initial bump from the slack being pulled...
This is an approximately realtime "live" recording of processing a prop model from BlendSwap so that we can use it to dress a set in "Lunatics!". This includes: * Finding and downloading a prop from BlendSwap * Transferring information to trac...
A tour of the resources we have available through our project website for people who would like to contribute, reuse our source materials, or just know more about the project's internals. [NOTE (2022): This video from 2014 is quite dated, of co...
For "Lunatics!" - http://lunatics.tv This is a track-through screen-test of the "Railway" set which will be used in the opening sequence for our pilot episode, "No Children in Space". We've been working very slowly on getting the pilot compl...
Revised [Kickstarter](http://kck.st/1bPRPwb) Pitch video for Lunatics! with the much shorter teaser at the beginning. [Lunatics Project | lunatics.tv](https://lunatics.tv) [CC By-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Although we’re officially on a short hiatus, I am still doing a little work on weekends, and we have also recently been joined by Chris Kuhn, a very talented mechanical modeling artist who is currently working on the Soyuz launch system which f...
Lunatics Pilot Episode - "No Children in Space" - Storyboard Animatic (Part 4 of 4) See also the Preview Trailer, for the production in progress. Storyboard animatic (extremely quick, low-budget animation produced as a guide for later full a...
"Sarah Allison" is the colony's resident geologist, and already one of the most experienced Lunar EVA specialists in the field due to her previous research assignments. Concept art by Daniel Fu for [Lunatics!](http://lunatics.tv) [Lunatics P...
This piano piece by Yunus made a perfect accompaniment for a gentle scene of Hiromi Lerner tucking little Georgiana in to sleep for the first night of their three-day journey to the Moon. I've mostly chosen piano pieces for Hiromi because she was ...
Today we switched over to a different Kickstarter goal: we're trying to fund just the audio production (full voice cast recording, sound effects, foley sound, and music) and a 2D animatic presentation of the story created by animator Timothée Giet...
Character concept art sketches for "Joshua Farmer" for "Lunatics!". Josh is "what it says on the tin" -- a farmer. Technically, he's an agricultural scientist, but what he does is keep food growing for the colony and study how to do it better. ...
"How libraries can benefit from the HERMES Project?" by Peter Bae. The contribution presents possible network models for sharing resources between libraries worldwide and illustrates how the RSCVD network works. The lecturer: P. Bae works at Pri...