Revised Kickstarter Pitch video for Lunatics! with the much shorter teaser at the beginning.

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A demonstration of animating the "Gagarin Start" launch pad model for "Lunatics!" Kickstarter.

Model by Chris Kuhn, based on photo and drawing references from RosCosmos and NASA.

This was created from three separate animation renderings from Blender (based on the same animation track with three different material settings), composited with Kdenlive.

Created with Blender, Kdenlive, and Audacity.

This is a test of the materials settings for "Georgiana Lerner" -- one of the central characters in "Lunatics!" and the main character of the pilot episode, "No Children in Space".

Currently crowd-funding to create the pilot on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1bPRPwb

Project site: http://lunatics.tv

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This is a test of toon-shaded materials with the model for Georgiana Lerner, wearing the spacesuit for the launch sequence. From "No Children in Space". Currently on Kickstarter - http://kck.st/1bPRPwb

We're still considering different options for the rendering style for our characters. However, these are the materials used in the teaser trailer we posted earlier.

Character Concept - Rosalyn Hunter

Music is "D10-2000" from the album "D10-2000" by Gregoire Lourme.

All "Lunatics!" published materials are under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 3.0, unported.

More info on our project: http://lunatics.tv

Very short (6s) trailer/teaser for "Lunatics!" - Kickstarter.

We are trying to crowd-fund the money to start this series -- we need your help to get it off the ground!

Lunatics is a science fiction animated web series about space development and space colonization on the Moon, being developed on a Free Culture Open Movie basis using Free/Open-Source Software

http://lunatics.tv

Credits for the Trailer:

Music: "Space Zine" by Elaine Walker.

All "Lunatics!" materials are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 3.0/unported.

This is the full video for our 2013 Production Kickstarter(WBM) to fund finishing our pilot episode, "No Children in Space".

See the Kickstarter campaign at the link above.

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The Lunar Transportation System (LTS) is the workhorse spacecraft of the Lunar exploration era in "Lunatics!"

In service since the early 2030s, this spacecraft provides the primary means of supply and crew-transfers for several different entities including NASA, the US Air Force, ESA, RosCosmos, and several corporate operations which maintain large or small stations on the Moon by 2040. So of course it is also how our settlers get to their new home.

The LTS Service Module is an unmanned spacecraft that provides the primary propulsion for the flight as well as providing a lot of secondary services, including in-flight refueling of the Lander. The fuel tanks are disposable elements brought up by tanker flights from Earth, while the rest of the craft is reusable (you'll notice that the tanks are shiny and new while other parts of the spacecraft show some wear).

This model was created by Chris Kuhn based on designs by Terry Hancock (me). Now that I've added materials and textures, this is pretty much how the spacecraft will look in our final production.

As with other elements of the production, we are not attempting to produce a truly photoreal appearance.

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We are running a Kickstarter to complete production of our pilot episode, "No Children in Space" for the "Lunatics!" series:

Lunatics is a near-future science-fiction story about the very first permanent settlement on the Moon, being made using free-software multimedia tools, released under a free-culture license (CC By-SA 3.0). We are an entirely fan-funded project.

See our site for details: http://lunatics.tv

Credits for this trailer:

Writer - Rosalyn Hunter

Character Design - Daniel Fu

Mechanical Design - Terry Hancock

Voices:

Blender 3D Models:

Sound Effects / Music Cues (FreeSound.org):

Foley Sound:

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This is still a work in progress, but it's a nearly-complete model of the Lunar Transportation System Lander for "Lunatics!".

The spacecraft design is by Terry Hancock (me). Vyacheslav Yastrebcev created a basic model that appears in our pilot episode animatic, and this model was then finished with much more detail by Chris Kuhn.

There are still some things that need work: the cargo loading arm is not quite correct yet, and we have not yet added all of the materials, textures, and bump maps (that's why it still looks kind of like plastic). We're still working on that stuff. 😃

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Although we’re officially on a short hiatus, I am still doing a little work on

This is a small collection of shading, rendering, lighting, and animation tests I've done recently on the "Lunatics!" project.

This video contains two brief video tests and a few stills. More information is available on our website:

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NOTE (2026): This is now quite dated. The rendering here is not close to the NPR3D style that we later settled on. And the model of Georgiana here is completely different from the version that evolved into our current model. However, we needed to do this to get to where we are now!