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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 based on storyboards by director Terry Hancock.

This new Kickstarter goal is $4235 -- a lot less money because we've eliminated the costly 3D animation part of the project (we'll try to fund that later). The campaign ends just before midnight, September 7th.

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Learn more about the Lunatics Project at our website: http://lunatics.tv

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We've been working pretty hard on this, trying to make it right. This is a "blocking animatic". Its purpose is to show what the camera will be doing during the shot. Of course, the characters (mainly "Georgiana") will be in the final shot, but they haven't been added to this yet.

One thing I haven't been able to add to this yet is the complex reflections in the the 2nd vignette -- the camera will be picking up a reflection of the sunlight streaming in from the port window, shifting to the Earthlight reflected from the starboard window. In between, we see Georgiana's face for a moment, through the visor.\n\nThe sound is nearly final -- I might be adding a few tweaks before we're done.

The visuals are obviously a work in progress. I'm not 100% sure about some of the camera moves, and of course this doesn't have any of the character animation added.

Part of the Lunatics! project.

CREDITS

Modeling and Animation Team

Directed by Terry Hancock

We've been working pretty hard on this, trying to make it right. This is a "blocking animatic". Its purpose is to show what the camera will be doing during the shot. Of course, the characters (mainly "Georgiana") will be in the final shot, but they haven't been added to this yet.\n\nOne thing I haven't been able to add to this yet is the complex reflections in the the 2nd vignette -- the camera will be picking up a reflection of the sunlight streaming in from the port window, shifting to the Earthlight reflected from the starboard window. In between, we see Georgiana's face for a moment, through the visor.\n\nThe sound is nearly final -- I might be adding a few tweaks before we're done.\n\nThe visuals are obviously a work in progress. I'm not 100% sure about some of the camera moves, and of course this doesn't have any of the character animation added.\n\nPart of the "Lunatics" project - http://lunatics.tv\n\nCREDITS\n\nCast\n\nGeorgiana Lerner - Ariel Hancock\nHiromi Lerner - Karrie Shirou\nSergei Titov (Pilot) - Sergei Oleinik\nController Voice - Veronika Kurshinskaya\n\nModeling and Animation Team\n\nGuillaume Côté\nTimothée Giet\nSathish Kumar\nGorka Mendieta\nCosmin Planchon\nAndrew Pray\nVyacheslav Yastrebcev\n\nDirected by \nTerry Hancock\n\n\nWritten by\nRosalyn Hunter\n\nSound Effects / Musical Cues\n\nERH, freqman, Rutger Muller, romancito, junggle, fastson @freesound.org\nBurst Labs\n\nFoley and Sound-Mixing\nTerry Hancock\n\nYou are free to redistribute this video in whole or in part for commercial or non-commercial purposes, under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 3.0, unported ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ).

Sound Effects / Musical Cues

Foley and Sound-Mixing

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Please support our Kickstarter campaign to create a pilot episode for Lunatics!.

It's going to be a humorous, fan-funded animated science-fiction series about the first permanent settlers on the Moon. It will be released directly to the web unde a free Creative Commons By-SA license.

The team found out about the gophers at Baikonur and decided we needed to cameo one. We named him "Lubo", and he really wants to have his debut, which means we need to make our pilot episode, "No Children in Space".

Ta-da! It's our first piece of actual animation! Strictly speaking this is still an "animatic", since the Soyuz in the background is not final art, but it's a good test.

Find out more about "Lunatics!" at our website: https://lunatics.tv

(From our unsuccessful Summer 2012 Production Kickstarter Campaign).

More music from the soundtrack for the Lunatics! pilot, "No Children in Space".

This is a By-SA track from an album by Gotika, which I found on Jamendo. This is a beautful track which captures the dangerous nature of a ballistic lander, the beauty of the surroundings, and the sublime aspect of the scene which can be viewed as the climax of the episode. I even like the way the cymbal pops towards the end resemble thruster rockets firing. It's a perfect match for the scene, and an excellent piece of music.

This version has been cut down a little bit (this is a first cut at the way the track will actually be used in the episode. The original track (which will be on the soundtrack album) is about 4 minutes long.

Please support our Kickstart so we can make this pilot episode and get the "Lunatics!" series launched.

More information about the series can be found through our website.

The visuals you see here are pre-production sketches, plans, and storyboards relating to the lander and the landing sequence.

We're using altimeter data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to get our terrain models, which will have finer texture and coloring added to to them to make a more realistic Lunar surface.

This is a suite of three tracks by Butterfly Tea ("Rise of the Titans", "Back to Adventure", and "Andorria Main Title") that we mixed to create the background for the Soyuz-SF launch sequence in "No Children in Space" -- the pilot episode for Lunatics! which we are currently trying to fund with our Production Kickstarter.

Find out more about "Lunatics!" at our website: http://lunatics.tv

The Butterfly Tea tracks are very prominent in the pilot episode. These tracks tend towards operatic film-score type music, and they seemed like the right way to handle the Soyuz-SF launch sequence. These tracks were among the more than 20 tracks we selected from free-licensed sources, and were already published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

The images included in the video are pre-production work on "No Children in Space" including some backdrop paintings and 3D test-renderings for the Soyuz capsule interior.

The control console was mostly by Cosmin Planchon, based on a plan drawing by Terry Hancock. The displays were animated by Timothée Giet and Vyacheslav Yastrebcev was responsible for checking labels. Vyacheslav also did the texturing on the Soyuz interior image (the one that shows the hatch), and the modeling was done by Guillaume Côté. The standard "Kazbek" acceleration couch was created by Gorka Mendieta, while the childseat version was created by Sathish Kumar. Andrew Pray is our character modeler, and he created the model of seven-year-old Georgiana Lerner that you see here.

All "Lunatics!" materials are released under the terms of the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 3.0, unported" and may be reused for commercial or non-commercial purposes, provided that attribution is made to Lunatics Project | lunatics.tv and the resulting work is also released under this free-license.

Excerpts from demo reels and portfolios of the core modeling and animation team now working on Lunatics.

For more information, see Lunatics Project.

Part of our Summer 2012 Production Kickstarter campaign. These artists worked on a short paid sprint during the campaign, which provided source material for our first Teaser Trailer.

Revealing the voice cast for our pilot episode of Lunatics!: "No Children in Space".

(From our Production Kickstarter Campaign in Summer 2012)

Bèl bonjour, Bèl bonswa !

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Pa konnèt mové, rasin-ay anmè … !

This is a promotional video for the "Lunatics" Phase I Kickstarter, which we hope will pay for expenses on our pre-production phase, and especially for commissioning character design work.

Promote space; support free culture; get cool stuff -- back our Kickstart.

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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.

Concept art sketches by Daniel Fu

For Lunatics Project

Music: "Une Journee Avec Max" by Gregoire Lourme from "Shorts Works" - Jamendo #19930 / CC By-SA 3.0

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