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...
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, ...
The time has come for us to adopt a better system for workflow and asset management, and to put it all together into a "virtual studio" system. We want to do that entirely with open-source software, and integrate it well with Blender, Synfig, and ...
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...
This tutorial is about a problem with Blender (up to version 2.76), which I consider its absolute worst failing: link-failure and the resulting loss of data. There are a number of ways around this problem, which I will cover in a 2nd tutorial, but...
Collaboration on programming projects has been dominated since the 1970s by "merge-based" version control, which allows multiple contributors to work on a project together without stepping on each others toes. This can be generalized to other "lis...
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
In this second part of the Tumbling Letter Title Effect tutorial, I explain how to get reverse playback using the Blender Visual Sequence Editor, and then how I animated the materials and freestyle lines for the letters to get the "toon materializ...
Papagayo is a tool we are using to automate the process of generating lipsync movements to match voice actors. This is a line from our "Lunatics!" pilot, "No Children in Space" as it plays in Papagayo with our own "Hiromi" avatar to demonstrate th...
Papagayo is a tool we are using to automate the process of generating lipsync movements to match voice actors. This is a line from our "Lunatics!" pilot, "No Children in Space" as it plays in Papagayo with our own "Hiromi" avatar to demonstrate th...
This is the first of two videos explaining the tumbling-letter title effect we use for the opening credits of "Lunatics!" The movement of the letters are simulated using rigid body physics simulation.
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 ...
Updated fundraising trailer for "Lunatics!" Pilot Project (support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/lunatics, more project info at http://lunatics.tv ). Also our 2015 submission to the Blender Conference Suzanne Awards competition in the "Sho...
Object and camera tracking in Blender 2.49. This is the resulting animation from my Free Software Magazine tutorial [Object and Camera Path Tracking in Blender: Monkey See Monkey Do](https://web.archive.org/web/20120509124447/http://freesoftwar...
Demonstration of sound effects created by painting spectra in Gimp and converting with the "Advanced Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph" (ARSS). Companion to my column [Painting Sound with ARSS and Gimp](https://web.archive.org/web/20110102035916/htt...
This is a loop created from the "NinaVision" collection of animations by Nina Paley. To be used as a main menu loop on the DVD I made from them. The animations are licensed [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike](http://creativecommons.org/li...
I was just uploading some screenshots I'd taken using my native screenshot tool, and realised that many maybe others didn't know that you can upload edited, or entirely custom screenshots, in a pretty simple way- so here's a video tutorial showing...
Demonstration of an [Upstream Data](https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/) BlackBox installation.
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Initial startup of a Whatsminer M30S from [Upstream Data](https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/).
Initial start up of an Antminer S19a Pro from [Upstream Data](https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/).
Testing the sound levels of the DIY BlackBox. Design originally released by [@SGBarbour](https://twitter.com/SGBarbour) of [Upstream Data](https://blog.upstreamdata.ca/).