After some thought, I decided I would like to have an account here on the Lunatics Project / Film Freedom Misskey server in my own name. It's just easier to post as "me".

The longer post limit here is more fitting for a lot of my professional content, and I know there are probably people who don't want to hear quite as much from me as you would get on my personal Mastodon account at
@TerryHancock .

I plan to stick to professional topics here: animation, film-making, production progress, free-culture, free/open-source software (
#FOSS ), and so on.

No partisan politics, but policy politics, like copyright, internet governance, and so on. I follow most widespread content warnings, but not "eye contact", unless it's really intense -- this is going to be a media-heavy account with a lot of character art and so on.

There shouldn't be any NSFW content here, unless you count undressed 3D character models in progress (I make narrative animation, not porn, so they're generally not particularly anatomically-correct, but I'm not putting censor bars over breasts. I will CW as appropriate). Keeping the language PG-13.
#LunaticsProject # #LunaticsTV #FilmFreedom #Misskey #Fediverse
Patreon Blog: Did a little poking around with Blender 3.3 this month, to learn the new interface.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/73263336
#LunaticsProject # #LunaticsTV
NPR3D rocket plume effect. A challenge to get the right look on this!


https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/4pbn2HGUz1MMuYu6v8wYTB #LunaticsTV #OpenMovie #Misskey #NPR3D #Blender3D #FX #Flame
Completed Rocket Plume Effect

PeerTube

"How it started" / "How it's going".

Comparison of the material and render styles from the 2013 "Teaser Trailer" (left) and the 2019 episode shot (also in the Preview trailer, right).There have also been subtle improvements in the models, of course -- although in fact, Hiromi wasn't modeled at all in 2012.

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#Blender3D #NPR3D #Naive3D
#CreativeToots #MastoArt #Process #CreativeCommons #OpenMovie #LunaticsTV

Some shots you just have to do...

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I have now migrated all 116 of my YouTube and Vimeo videos to my new #PeerTube instance.

I think, from now on, I'm going to post to PeerTube first, and then maybe mirror to Vimeo and/or YouTube when appropriate.

I suppose I'll need to go back to uploading source files to Git, now.

#LunaticsTV #FilmFreedom #OpenMovie #OpenSource #FreeCulture

@lunatics
@ff

https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/local

Film Freedom PeerTube

A PeerTube dedicated to Free & Open Film Making.

Year of 2021 in Review

PeerTube

"Lunatics!" Trailer for Episode 1: Prolog / "No Children in Space"

https://tv.filmfreedom.net/w/xmJq6aA6v1zEvNbHLsNWk1

"Lunatics!" Trailer for Episode 1: Prolog / "No Children in Space"

PeerTube

In 2012, there was a cute video of a ground squirrel at Baikonur Cosmodrome that was making the rounds on social media. So we added a cameo. Ros called him "Lubo".

In the final version, he's just chilling and watching the Soyuz go by.

The gopher model was created by Cosmin Planchon from the Summer 2012 production sprint.

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#MastoArt #CreativeToots

I'd probably list these test animations from 2014 as the point when I felt we'd found our footing on the #NPR3D style I wanted to achieve in "Lunatics!"

Still a lot of tweaking after that, of course, but this is when it started sparking, for me.

Just migrated it over from YouTube. I'm just about finished with those, and will be migrating our old Vimeo videos over as well.

#Blender3D #Animation #OpenMovie #LunaticsTV #MastoArt #CreativeToots

https://tv.filmfreedom.net/videos/watch/ec9ab44a-d721-4f1c-b44a-13b6047da63a

Animation "Look" Tests for Lunatics! Space/Exterior Shots

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