This is a visual effects video we created for a community theater production of "Alice in Wonderland". During the play, the actress ducks behind a curtain, this video plays for her fall into Wonderland, and then she emerges for the rest of the pla...
This is a mock-up of the shot, with an animated video standing in for the matted live-action shot (from the greenscreen shoot). The video is presented on a plane in the 3D animation, rigged to always face the camera. The "flotsam" is incomplete...
This was a video I prepared, originally as part of the 2-Minute Tutorial series. But I never posted it, because: 1) it was not technically a tutorial, 2) it uses a lot of copyrighted source art I wasn't sure about publishing (even tho...
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...
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...
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...
Skip cycle animation with moving camera for Georgiana Lerner model. (NO AUDIO) This is the first time we've tested any major body motion for any of our characters. There are a few imperfections in the model which we can sort out later, but it's...
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 to go with our latest [Patreon Update](https://www.patreon.com/posts/october-1069928) update on our Patreon account ( http://www.patreon.com/lunatics ). The acceleration jump in the previous video has been fixed, and I've corrected the ...
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...
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...
These are two 10-second shots made using the materials, textures, compositing, and rendering techniques we propose to use for "Lunatics!" shots (or very nearly). Project: http://lunatics.tv Some details about the shots: Both were created ...
This is a test of toon-shaded materials with the model for Georgiana Lerner, wearing the spacesuit for the launch sequence. From "No Children in Space". Currently on Kickstarter - http://kck.st/1bPRPwb We're still considering different options ...
The Lunar Transportation System (LTS) is the workhorse spacecraft of the Lunar exploration era in ["Lunatics!"](https://lunatics.tv) In service since the early 2030s, this spacecraft provides the primary means of supply and crew-transfers for s...
This is still a work in progress, but it's a nearly-complete model of the Lunar Transportation System Lander for "Lunatics!". The spacecraft design is by Terry Hancock (me). Vyacheslav Yastrebcev created a basic model that appears in our pilot ...
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...
So I finally created a logo animation for Anansi Spaceworks. I guess this makes us official now. Created with Blender, Audacity, and Kdenlive, using effects from FreeSound. FreeSound Sound credits: Richard Frohlich (FreqMan), ERH, suonho, leaf...
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...
Lunatics Pilot Episode - "No Children in Space" - Storyboard Animatic (Part 3 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...
Lunatics Pilot Episode - "No Children in Space" - Storyboard Animatic (Part 2 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...
Lunatics Pilot Episode - "No Children in Space" - Storyboard Animatic (Part 1 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...
Turn-around model of Georgiana Lerner from [Lunatics!](http://lunatics.tv), wearing the custom spacesuit for the "Soyuz-SF" launch in the pilot episode "No Children in Space". Unlike the adults, she is wearing a custom-designed child spacesuit whi...
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. ...