Lunatics Project Timeline 2009-2015

   2016-01-10  Posted in Summary

A timeline of the Lunatics Project’s Early Years from 2009 to 2016.

Timeline Segment 2009

Summary 2009

  • Project/Animation Influences: Blender Open Movies, Morevna Project, Sita Sings the Blues
  • Personal Experiences: The Light Princess Game Project, Free Software Magazine Column, News Editor for LinuxUser & Developer Magazine, Guest Editor QuestionCopyright.org, book: “Achieving Impossible Things”.
  • Story Inspirations: National Space Society, Space Frontier Foundation, International Space Development Conference, A lifetime of Space and Sci-Fi Fandom!
Timeline Segment 2010

Summary 2010

  • Story Development & Script Writing
  • Experimental Animation and Software Work for Free Software Magazine column.
  • Participation with Morevna Project
  • Writing for QuestionCopyright.org
  • Collected Free-CC (CC-0, CC-By, CC-By-SA) music for building soundtracks.
  • Animated series concept.

 
Timeline Segment 2011

Summary 2011

  • Creator-Endorsed “Containers” Business Model
  • Fan-Financing & Crowdsourcing Idea
  • DVD Pre-Sale Concept
  • Need for Free HD format, becomes “Lib-Ray” Concept (Presented at Texas Linux Fest 2011).
  • Recruited Daniel Fu for Concept Art Commission
  • Pre-Production Kickstarter Campaign — SUCCEEDS!
Timeline Segment 2012

Summary 2012

  • Pre-Production Design Work
  • Character Concepts & Modelsheets (Daniel Fu)
  • Colony Floor Plan / Set Planning
  • Research into Soyuz Program Hardware and Sets
  • Voice-Actor Casting
  • Blender Artist Recruitment
  • Lib-Ray Kickstarter Campaign — SUCCEEDS!
  • Summer 2012 Sprint & Production Kickstarter Campaign — FAILS!
  • Pilot Animatic Kickstarter — FAILS!
  • Dialog Voice Recording
  • Storyboard Animatic Released
Timeline Segment 2013

Summary 2013

  • Chris Kuhn for Mechanical Modeling
  • Bela Szabo for Character Modeling
  • Finished Soyuz Teaser Trailer
  • Asset Development for Soyuz and ISS
  • Principle Characters Modeled
  • “Earth” Audiodrama
  • Finish Pilot Kickstarter — FAILS!
  • Earth Audiodrama IndieGoGo – FAILS!
  • Fire, Freeze, and Tears…
Timeline Segment 2014

Summary 2014

  • Post-Fire Cleanup of Office, Damage Assessments
  • Asset Development for Lunar Transportation System
  • Keneisha Perry for Wardrobe, Rigging, Modeling Characters
  • More Complete Trailer for Patreon
  • California State University Internship Program Approval
  • Walk-On and Extras Character Development
  • Patreon Campaign Started
Timeline Segment 2015

Summary 2015

  • Chris Kuhn: LTS Lander Interior Set Model
  • Elsa Balderrama: WordPress Theme and Migration Scripting
  • Migration from Plone to WordPress
  • Merged Kickstarter Posts to WordPress
  • Summer Internships: Travis Souza and Johnathon Wilson — Mainly Set Development
  • Keneisha Perry: Character Animation
  • Multicam Process
  • 2-Minute Tutorials
  • Press Conference Sequence

 

 
Timeline Segment 2016

Summary 2016

Still speculative in January 2016.

  • Divided Pilot Episode into 3 Shorter Episodes: “No Children in Space” (or “Prolog”),  “From the Earth…”, and “…To the Moon”. Episode “Earth” moves from episode 2 to episode 4 as a result.
  • Still working on Lib-Ray: Having real problems getting a software player to work as I want it to. Realizing it may be a security risk if I try to continue the original architecture.
  • 2015 Internship Experience Leads me to the Virtual Studio Concept

I originally created this timeline in early 2016, but didn’t publish it to the production log until 2025, when I started work on an updated version. Until then, I am going to use this article, backdated to January 2015, as a foundation for the Summary series I have been keeping from 2016 to 2025.

Further years are documented with monthly summaries that start with April 2016. There are also the Patreon Newsletters that ran from 2014 to 2016.

 
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Author: Terry Hancock
Terry Hancock is the director and producer of "Lunatics!" and the founder for "Lunatics Project" and the associated "Film Freedom" Project. Misskey (Professional/Director Account) Mastodon (Personal Account)