Later today, we’ll be announcing a new (replacement) Kickstarter campaign, which will fund just the next step production, which is making an animatic and a full-cast voice production (i.e. we’re going to focus on the sound production first). Check here at lunatics.tv for the link!
Thank you very much to all of you who were willing to support our pilot episode Kickstarter! It has, however, been apparent for awhile now that we’re not going to succeed in funding the entire production process for the pilot episode in one go. So much for the “frontal assault”!
However, this is not the end for “Lunatics”!
In fact, if we can raise the (much smaller) $4235 goal of our new Kickstarter campaign, we’ll hardly lose any time at all on our immediate goals of creating an animatic with a full voice cast recording and sound production.
This eliminates some of the riskiest and costliest parts of the episode production (3D modeling and animation) and focuses on steps we are ready to do right away, and the cost is a great deal more attainable (we’d be at over 40% of that goal if we simply transferred the pledges from our pilot episode Kickstarter to the new one — of course there’s no guarantee that will happen, but I’m hoping that there will be a higher level of confidence in this more conservative goal).
If you want to hear what kind of voice-production work we can currently produce, I can invite you to listen to the sound production for our “Teaser Trailer” (our current featured video).
And of course, if you enjoyed the “Lubo” video I posted in our last update, then you’ve already seen some of Timothée Giet’s animatic animation — which is what’s going on in the background of that shot with the Soyuz rollout (the gopher in the foreground is 3D animated, albeit very simply).
This new Kickstarter is on an urgent timescale — just THREE WEEKS — because this way we can complete it before we are currently scheduled to begin recording voices. This will allow us to avoid having to slip the schedule and possibly lose the opportunity to get all of the actors together at once to rehearse their parts.
I should mention that, although this clearly means a delay in when we can start 3D animation for the pilot episode, it does not mean we are giving up on fully animating it. It’s simply that we are breaking this down into smaller steps, and giving ourselves more time to demonstrate our readiness for the 3D work as well as the worthiness of the story we’re animating.
I will post a new update with the URL for the new campaign as soon as it is launched.
