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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 animation). This is to give you an idea of what the final production will look like, but it is not by any means intended to be a final product.

Details/Credits (Internet Archive)

For more convenient viewing and/or download, this is PART 2 of 4 parts.

[NOTE (2022): The "pilot" described here has since been broken into 3 episodes, so this is "Prolog"/"No Children in Space", "From The Earth...", and "...To The Moon") in the current episode numbering]

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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 animation). This is to give you an idea of what the final production will look like, but it is not by any means intended to be a final product.

Details/Credits (Internet Archive)

For more convenient viewing and/or download, this is PART 1 of 4 parts.

[NOTE (2022): The "pilot" described here has since been broken into 3 episodes, so this is "Prolog"/"No Children in Space", "From The Earth...", and "...To The Moon") in the current episode numbering]

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Flame effects are going to be an interesting challenge for Lunatics!. Rocket plumes don't look the same in vacuum since they don't interact with the surrounding air. This is a first attempt to get a somewhat realistic-looking flicker using image loops on surfaces in Blender.

I'll probably try to improve on this, but this is the render I'll be using in our animatic shots.

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Turn-around model of Georgiana Lerner from Lunatics!, 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 which is a combination IVA/EVA type (this is meant to be an American design, which is why it doesn't look much like the Russian Sokol suits the adults are wearing).

The character model (and turn-around) is by Andrew Pray, based on character model sheets by Daniel Fu, based on art direction by series creators Rosalyn Hunter (Writer) and Terry Hancock (Producer/Director).

Created in Blender.

[NOTE (2022): This character model was later replaced by a new model created originally by Bela Szabo and further modified by Keneisha Perry, which adheres more closely to the design modelsheets created by Daniel Fu. However, the spacesuit model by Andrew Pray was kept].

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[NOTE (2026): Reuploaded. This was from Vimeo. Uncertain about the original publication date, but must have been associated with the 2012 Kickstarter(s).

Our Kickstarter to support the production of the pilot episode for our animated science fiction series Lunatics! is now live!

The pilot episode will be titled "No Children in Space" and follows the youngest colonist on her journey to the Moon to join the colony.

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Added 2026-07-13:

So we did it the hard and slow way after that. Possibly that was a blessing. I don't know what it would've looked like had we done it that way. Probably pretty different.

"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!

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From our first pre-production Kickstarter in late 2011. Concept art for lunar geologist Sarah Allison, the resident scientist and EVA expert. She joins the colony at the end of what was originally episode 3, but with the breakup of the pilot is now episode 5.

Music: "Walking Shoes" by Slim, from "Interstate Medicine" - Jamendo #3100 / CC By-SA 3.0

در هفته‌های پیش، عدم حضور پاسداران در مراسم رسمی‌ همچون هفته دفاع مقدس دوباره بر همه یاران نظام ثابت کرد که سپاه قاطعانه به رژیم و به آنها پشت کرده. در مقابل خطر جدی سقوط نظام (در صورت یک خیزش مردمی)، آقازاده‌ها با شدت بیشتری دست به کار خرید دلار شدند، برای نقد کردن اموال و فرار از ایران.

در دو هفته پیش، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی قول مانور پلیسی ۱۵،۰۰۰ نفری به آخرین همکاران وحشتزده‌ اش داده بود، ولی‌ در عکس‌ها دیده شد که فقط ۶۰ نفر پلیس ضد شورش در اختیار دارد.

در هفته پیش، پس این سرخوردگی، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی با کمبود سراسری بنزین مواجه شد، بر همه همکارانش ثابت شد، که دیگر پولی در بساط ندارد. در پایان این هفته، رژیم با یک تحریم سراسری عید قربان مواجه شد.

پس از این تحریم، رژیم مطمئن بود که، در این هفته، با تحریم هفته بسیج دانش آموزان، تحریم سالروز "یوم الله ۱۳ آبان" و همچنین تحریم عید غدیر مواجه خواهد شد. برای پرت کردن توجه خودی‌ها و مردم، رژیم تغییراتی در برنامه‌های رسمی‌ خود داده و چندین نمایش جنجالی آماده کرده بود... شکست این نمایش‌ها منجر به تنش‌های بیشتری از سوی خودی‌ها و تنبیهاتی بسیار سنگین از طرف رژیم شد : تعلیق تمام صرافی‌های تهران، ممنوعیت خروج طلا...

رژیم به وحشت افتاد. آمریکا نیز به وحشت افتاد چرا برای تسخیر آسیای مرکزی به یک جمهوری اسلامی هم پیمان در ایران نیاز دارد. بلافاصله از ارژانتین خواست پرونده بمبگذاری مرکز یهودیان به وسیله رفسنجانی را ببندد تا این آخوند به نحوی رژیم را در مسیر یک انتقال قدرت به سوی مهره‌های آمریکا قرار دهد. نزدیکی‌ باند رفسنجانی به آمریکا باعث وحشت باند‌های دیگر حکومتی شد. لاریجانی‌ها آنچه در توان داشتند بکار بردند تا احمدی‌نژاد (مهره رفسنجانی) را از دور خارج کنند و خود بار مصدر مذاکره با آمریکا بنشینند. جنگ داخلی‌ بر سر صندلی‌ مذاکره بر آخرین همکاران رژیم ثابت کرد که باید قبل از فدا شدن، رژیم را رها کرده و فرار کنند : به همین دلیل در پایان آن هفته، این آخرین طرفداران رژیم هم به او پشت کرده و دو روز مهم "یوم الله ۱۳ آبان : دومین انقلاب اسلامی" و عید غدیر را تحریم کردند.

در این هفته، لاریجانی ها باید دست از حمله به رفسنجانی بر میداشتند، و رفسنجانی دست از لاس زدن با آمریکا بر میداشت : نتیجه : نرمش با مهدی فرزند رفسنجانی از سوی لاریجانی‌ها و در ضمن پز‌های اتمی‌ از سوی مهره‌های رفسنجانی.

در عکس العمل، آمریکا بازداشت سرمایه‌های رژیم در کانادا را مطرح کرد، وحشت آقازاده‌ها سر به آسمان زد : رژیم باید اپوزیسیون داخلی‌ را بیدار میکرد تا اگر اوضاع شلوغ شد بازی در دستاش بماند : نتیجه : داستان کشته شدن ستار بهشتی‌، عضو اپوزیسیون دروغین سبز ! شهیدی‌ برای سبز کردن اعتراضات.

داستان روز به روز یک هفته پر تنش و پر از دروغ بر اساس تصاویر رسمی‌ رژیم.

Distemper is a Moscow "Ska Punk" band that released this track as part of their album "Think Who Is Your Friend" under the Free Art License, which was awkward, because at the time the FAL was not legally compatible with the CC By-SA license, despite having essentially the same meaning. So I actually contacted the band to get permission to relicense to CC By-SA for our purposes.

Years later, however, an arrangement was worked out to make the FAL and CC By-SA licenses compatible. This applies for CC By-SA 4.0, which we've now switched to, so theoretically, we're safe to incorporate music under FAL directly, now. Still, it was nice to have the band's blessing.

Ironic, because this is one of the tracks that kept getting dinged by the copyright filter bots on YouTube, apparently because of the label the band used to release their album.

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We did this sometime back, and I thought I had uploaded it, but it seems not.

This an art interview program in which artist Allen Emerson is introduced.This was used as an audition script for Allen for Lunatics. In this version, though, I (Terry Hancock) am playing Emerson and the reporter is Rosalyn Hunter.

We are currently trying to raise money through a Kickstarter campaign to pay for the next step in production, which is voice recording and audio production.

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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 an accomplished pianist herself before she decided to become a space colonist.

This is part of the soundtrack for "No Children in Space", the pilot episode for the Lunatics free-culture animated science-fiction web series we are currently working on producing. Right now we are raising money through a Kickstarter campaign to pay for the audio production, including voice actors, music, sound effects, and foley as well as an animatic presentation of the story.

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Attribution for the song is Yunus | http://www.yunus-piano.de.