Terry Hancock (Director/Producer)

A little "Lunatics!" 2026 status update: This has been a long, hard road -- over a decade, in fact, with many bumps, side excursions, and detail that will require several chapters in a book I plan to write to actually explain, but... ​​ ANIMATION ON EPISODE ONE IS FINISHED! ​​ ​​ I AM NOW TRANSFORMED INTO A "SOUND GUY". ​​​​​​​​​​​​ At least for awhile. (Posted to pin). #Animation #Audio #SoundDesign #Audacity #Ardour #Foley #Ambience #SoundFX #Introduction #LunaticsProject

Huh. The UFO in the elevator shot isn't part of the elevator or attached to the camera. It's my billboard Moon in the far background.

So, either I have to figure out why the billboard is getting inked (and fix that), or I could just move the Moon, I guess. Did I put it there on purpose, like for art reasons? I honestly can't remember!

Also... check out the cool sky rig I made. I did that years ago. Haven't looked at it in quite awhile! I forgot how cool that was.

This is somewhat exciting: I now have a complete episode of "Lunatics!" ​​​:sintel_excited:​​:lunatics:​

There's still some brokenness, but nothing is actually missing. All the shots are here. I made a few tweaks just now, and I'm going to look at it again.

I have a little list of nitpicks to fix, so it's going to go through another cycle, but this does feel like a breakthrough.

Oh, and with credits, it's now 23 minutes long. 30 seconds of that is a brief Patreon promo spot and a teaser for episode 2. It might shrink slightly if I feel I need to tighten up some transitions, but I'm getting very close to "picture lock", after which I'll need to worry about cleaning up the soundtrack.

This is happening. ​​

Well. Thanks to some feedback I got this weekend, I have discovered that some of my older videos on PeerTube are broken. I don't know if those just broke when I upgraded to v8, or if they've been like that for a long time. I suspect it's the latter.

Probably due to issues with failed migration away from object storage. This will take some tedious tinkering to fix. In the end, I suspect it will be easier to just re-upload new copies of the videos in question (I should have offline copies of them all, though it may take some digging to find which ones I need).

If you find playback failures on https://tv.filmfreedom.net this is probably what's going on. Sorry!

I am but a poor sad part-time sysadmin and only sort of know what I'm doing. #PeerTube #TechnicalDifficulties #FilmFreedom #LunaticsProject

One thing about open source production is that it motivates me to make the behind-the-scenes "internal documents" nicer.

I just updated the titlecard for the "LA-Launch" sequence and regenerated "storyboard" clips from the scene (sort of an "after the fact" storyboard for documenting the source tree -- I do also have the real, crufty ink-pen storyboards I drew before all this!

There isn't room for all 23 shots in the scene (let alone the extra stills I storyboard for long moving shots), but I selected 17 good ones for the title card, which is about all that fits.

The practical use is just to remember what's in this scene. But it also looks good on the Work-In-Progress channel if I post the rendered scene there.

#Kdenlive #Animation #Inkscape

I'm quite pleased with myself for this cheesy transition in Kdenlive. It's just a couple of title clips, with SVG "eyelash" images for top and bottom, a little bit of box blur, and then animated with the "title scroll animation" feature.

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Just 5 frames (1/6th of a second at 30fps), but I think it sweetens the transition and sells the "blinding light" idea much better than a hard cut.
#Kdenlive #Animation

I may have overdone the dust effect now. ​:sparkles_anim:​ ​:ani_dunno:​

Kind of looks like it's snowing in there. #Blender3D

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