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Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Okay, these are indeed better. I think I'm done with them. Moving on to the next batch of shots to fix. <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/nZugPGwXYqxJGkB8S2pDdh" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/nZugPGwXYqxJGkB8S2pDdh</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3d" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3d</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Animation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Animation</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WIP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)I have a revised version of the LA-2 mission control shots rendering. I added the space station video texture into two other shots and I fixed the camera movement in LA-2-D. I think. It's hard to tell about the video texture in stills. It's a subtle effect that should show up when animated. Server is still making whirring noises. I expect it'll be ready tomorrow. Going to sleep... G'night! <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3d" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3d</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Animation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Animation</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)So, I got my renders back from the server on the Mission Control Shots. Frankly, they need a bit more love. I need to add the video texture on the center screen for shots A & C. It IS used in shot D (the transition shot I showed stills from last night). But it hardly matters, the static image would've looked as well in that one, because we barely glimpse it. Also, the camera movement in D is a bit disappointing towards the end: the camera seems to hover/drift a bit before moving in on the Capcom. I think that should move faster -- which would have the added benefit of showing the lip-sync on her line better (she actually has two lines in this shot: first she asks Sergei about the "ride" in Russian, then she asks about the crew, in English -- presumably because she knows they are listening and are English speakers). <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/raHduNr9GPqpmfvRY8g43J" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/raHduNr9GPqpmfvRY8g43J</a> There is no sound in this test video. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WIP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Me - Producer: "Keep it simple! Time's ticking!" Me - Director: "No! We MUST have this cool transition shot!" It is really quite difficult to do both of these jobs. They are natural enemies. Check renders: 1 - Exterior "chase camera" 2 - Camera shifts to telescope view with video effects 3 - Camera reveals extra display of cabin interior 4 - Camera starts turning and tracking to show mission control 5 - Camera finds the Capcom 6 - Camera settles on the Capcom as she is speaking to the crew Yes. This could have just been a cut. But where's the fun in that? <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WIP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Soyuz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soyuz</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Rocket" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rocket</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Here is the other big video texture for Mission Control. This is from the other flight project the MCR is monitoring, and a bit of a sneak peek into Episode 2. This is meant to be the view from the LTS Moon Shuttle preparing to dock at the space station, which happens to coincide with the "Soyuz-SF 19" flight that Hiromi and Georgiana are going up on. <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/m9Xk5JtBabD7hLQaZeUvov" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/m9Xk5JtBabD7hLQaZeUvov</a> This one is just a still render with a little bit of animation in Kdenlive (using a title clip). I've used some different video noise clips on this, and desaturated it slightly. I also added some keyframed box-blur effects, as if the camera focus is glitching occasionally. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WIP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Soyuz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soyuz</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Rocket" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rocket</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)I picked a pretty generic "video static" effect to go with this. I just wanted to give it some texture, and communicate that it's a video screen (at least at the end of the animation -- it starts out as a direct, fantasy camera PoV. That's kind of the point of the shot as a transition. Didn't really want it to be distracting. Also added the interior shot of the Soyuz -- this is a shot from the starboard cabin camera that is most often used in real footage. The compositing is done in Kdenlive for this one. <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/4hRrkkfddc4FAGEP4RrA74" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/4hRrkkfddc4FAGEP4RrA74</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WIP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WIP</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Soyuz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soyuz</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Rocket" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rocket</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a>

Lunatics ProjectLA-2-D: Transition to Capcom in MIssion Control (GL Previz) <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/3baefc24-3afa-4396-ac11-1b77e9c7fd5a" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/3baefc24-3afa-4396-ac11-1b77e9c7fd5a</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Getting into the final stretch of animation fixes. Adding lipsync and head movements to the capcom in the Mission Control Room shots from the Launch. Almost there. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Animation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Animation</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Worked on the <a href="https://lunatics.tv" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lunatics release page</a> CSS a little. I had noticed that the page works very poorly on e-ink devices like my InkPad 3 Color reader's browser, because of the animated background effect, which I'm still pretty attached to. It moves pretty slowly, but it still created updates with constant flickering as my e-reader tried to keep up. Of course, the page is really designed to distribute or stream video, so it's normally intended for full-motion video browsers. The video is never going to work right on an e-reader. But there's also credits and other text information on the site. So, I looked up methods to fix this with CSS media queries, and I think it's fixed now. It now only animates if the browser reports media type "screen" and feature "update: fast". And this correctly suppresses animation now on my InkPad 3 Color e-reader. If you happen to have a similar device or other oddball browser, I'd be interested if the page is working for you. Still working on honoring other parameters like "prefers-reduced-motion", "prefers-color-scheme", and "prefers-contrast". I would like to get those working as well. Ultimately, I may add a Javascript button to change the behavior manually, but the page currently is HTML and CSS only to keep it lighter weight. I did also test it in a text-only browser, w3m, where it looks pretty correct. Haven't tried other ones. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/WebDesign" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebDesign</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/CSS" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CSS</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/MediaQueries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaQueries</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Testing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Testing</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)E.g. This one's kind of nice. From VHS player... <a href="https://archive.org/details/vhs_glitch_vol_01_cutdown" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/vhs_glitch_vol_01_cutdown</a> I think I can load this into Kdenlive with an appropriate compositing mode and degrade video tracks accordingly for video textures. Going to experiment with it. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Video" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/InternetArchive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)For the discerning connoisseur, there is a wide selection of video noise available under an assortment of free-licenses on the Internet Archive. I got a nice sampling of PD, CC-0, and CC-By licensed static and glitches, evocative of various, largely defunct video storage mechanisms. For reasons... <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Video" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Video</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Kdenlive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kdenlive</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/InternetArchive" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InternetArchive</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Timing is so critical in animation. And visual storytelling in general, I guess. I've decided I want to let the length of the episode grow slightly, but how best to use the extra time..? Without tripping up the pacing..? 🤔 I did feel that the mission control room was being underused a bit. So I'm giving it 20 or 30 more seconds in this edit, with a couple of moving camera shots to take in a bit more. Of course, that will also require retiming the audio again. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Animation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Animation</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Directing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Directing</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Timing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Timing</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Starting on the next shots to finish. I needed to reblock these, which is what I worked on today. Also the first time I've rendered with the extras and set dressing included. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Animation" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Animation</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blender3D" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blender3D</a>

Lunatics ProjectMay 2025 Timelapse: Retiming Audio <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/366167b0-c474-4797-af2e-0d088a611d00" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/366167b0-c474-4797-af2e-0d088a611d00</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)And then April, where I tackled the enormous tangle of the "Suiting Up" scene, which has been a worry for me for years now. The new version is much more complete and closer to the original concept. <a href="https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/04/30/april-2025-summary/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/04/30/april-2025-summary/</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/ProdLog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProdLog</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Summaries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Summaries</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)And March, which continues the compositing madness, as well as fixing a troublesome set, recovering some lost animation, and putting that all together. <a href="https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/03/31/march-2025-summary/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/03/31/march-2025-summary/</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/ProdLog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProdLog</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Summaries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Summaries</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Catching up on my project / production summaries for my production log, I just added February 2025, which features me figuring out how to do the compositing, and, in particular, to get rid of unwanted lines from Freestyle that show up occasionally. <a href="https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/02/28/february-2025-summary/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://lunaticsproject.org/2025/02/28/february-2025-summary/</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/ProdLog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProdLog</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Summaries" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Summaries</a>

Lunatics ProjectApril 2025 Timelapse: Suiting Up Reconstruction <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/cb1aead2-ab95-4b09-bf2a-539d29da840b" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/cb1aead2-ab95-4b09-bf2a-539d29da840b</a>

Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)Musing on the "forklift at the gym" analogy. Crude compositing, but probably adequate for my blog? :leftsharkdance: Two different attempts. Photos are from Wikimedia Commons. The gym in the first try is a photo from the USDA/By2. The one in the second is by Mauro Cateb/BySA4. In both, the forklift is credited to "Compliance and Safety LLC"/BySA3. <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Forklift" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Forklift</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Gym" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gym</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/Blog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blog</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/ProdLog" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ProdLog</a> <a href="https://m.filmfreedom.net/tags/LunaticsProject" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LunaticsProject</a>

Lunatics ProjectMarch 2025 Timelapse: Compositing, Re-Rendering, Animation Fixes <a href="https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/973c983b-fd7c-471f-9cfe-035d9bb98e48" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/973c983b-fd7c-471f-9cfe-035d9bb98e48</a>

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