Continuing work on the Lunatics artbooks:
All of the “Lunar Transportation System” drawings are finished, including the updated “Space Station Alpha”. The final drawing is the “reference mission” diagram, attached below. The Soyuz-SF drawings are also finished. There’s a few edits I have left for the ISF-1 Colony set plans, and I still need to draw the Iridium reception/terminal area set plan (one page). Hopefully those won’t take more than tomorrow to finish, which will just leave the actual typesetting to get them into the book.
The script for “No Children in Space” is final and typeset. The script for “Earth” (the 2nd episode) is nearly final, though it needs a little typesetting attention.
I would really, really like to get the books sent off to the printers by Friday — I’ll let you know if I make it!
Of course, we did audition voice actors this Summer as well as 3D modeling experts, and we had a go at a Kickstarter to try to fund the entire production for the pilot episode (starting on Moon Day, July 20th). That did not work out, but we are now running a smaller one to try to fund just thevoice and sound production as well as an animatic (we’ve been lucky to get a good 2D Synfig animator, Timothée Giet who will be able to improve considerably over my own animatics, which I’ve taken to calling “sketchy-matics”, and of course the voice and sound production is all ready to go). That’s at about 24% as I write this — I hope we’ll be able to fund it.
I’ve also sorted out the remaining licensing issues on the soundtrack music licensing, and so I will be including the complete soundtrack on the data disks and the download site. Of course, I’m also planning to update the download site with the new art and scripts. For more frequent updates, do be aware of our project website news. I also post to Diaspora, Facebook, and Google+.
Thank you very much for your support (and your patience). I know the pre-production work and rewards are way overdue, and I am working on them about as fast as I can manage.
