Revised rocket plume effect, test animation (no audio). After a lot of experimentation, I settled on this very simple effect as the most appropriate. It's mostly just a moving texture with a four-color ramp.

[NOTE (2022): this is NOT the final effect. I did a LOT of work trying to figure out a good aesthetically-matched effect for rocket plumes effects. This is obviously something we need a lot of for a space-technology series, and there's actually a fair amount of variety. And many aesthetic choices: more "realistic", more "cartoon", more "movie-expectation" (because Hollywood movie notion's of rocket plumes are rather different and much more showy than the real thing, which people often think looks "fake", because they've never seen the real thing)]

Main title sequence intended for the 3-episode pilot arc, revised in November 2020 to fix some remaining title animation issues that had been bugging me. Sergei now has a portrait image. And some title animations have been tweaked to look a little smoother.

Testing parameter ranges and texture development for animated cloud effect used in the timelapse sequences in the "Lunatics!" pilot episode.