HIGHLIGHTS
September 2023 was a well-balanced month with significant production, writing, and development work, as well as training and research.
PRODUCTION
Manual testing of EXR Compositing nodes. Sequence assembly tests for all of S1E01 Pilot.
Located AVI animatic files for TR-Train sequence to use as a guide to reconstruction.
WRITING
Wrote and published Lunatics Project History #3: Launches and Misfires, about the Kickstarters in 2011-2012, the voice casting, and the Summer 2012 production sprint. Started Project History #4: Fixed Media.
DEVELOPMENT
Created scripts to test and run ABX Add-On in Blender, as part of migration to VS Codium IDE.
Setup scripts to run unit tests in multiple fresh installations of Blender and tabulate results.
Researched methods to install dependencies, since ABX relies on PyYAML.
RESEARCH/TRAINING
Started watching Bartosz Milewski’s lecture series on Category Theory (I’ve gotten to unit 3.1).
Discovered “Rebound” orbit integrator in Python.
Watched several tutorials on Blender Grease Pencil, and tried some of them out. There are major changes between Blender 2.79 and 3.3, so I also got some practice with the newer Blender user interface.
Got a recommendation for a tutorial on writing bots for Mastodon: this method uses access to the API of an existing Mastodon platform, rather than acting as a Fedi server, as I had imagined.
OTHER/PERSONAL
This was the end of a record-breaking brutally hot and dry Summer here in Texas. Global warming is clearly upon us. We’re also in the fuzzy stage of the Pandemic, where it hasn’t really gone away, but virtually everyone is pretending it has. And we’ve had some equipment failures which have required my attention.
September 2023 Screencast Summary
This is a screencast of Lunatics and Film Freedom Project work from September 2023
at 60X (1 minute = 1 hour), set to music from our free-public-licensed music
collection (titles and credits at the end of the video and below).Production
00:10 EXR Compositing Nodes
01:18 Lunatics S1E01-LA-1-A/B Action-Across-Wipe Shot for Launch Seq.
02:50 Lunatics S1E01-LA Sequence GL-Rendering / Assembly
08:18 Lunatics S1E01-SF Sequence GL/Storyboard Rendering / Assembly
11:40 Lunatics S1E01-TR Sequence Assembled from Previous GL/Renders
12:41 Lunatics S1E01-SU Sequence GL/Storyboard Rendering / Assembly
13:22 Lunatics S1E01-PC Sequence Checking Existing Assembly
14:02 Lunatics S1E01 All Sequences Review
Writing
14:44 Film Making for Lunatics – Project History #3
17:31 Film Making for Lunatics – Introduction
17:59 Film Making for Lunatics – Project History #4 / Fixed Media
Development
19:55 VS Codium for Blender Add-Ons (Test & Run Scripts)
20:52 Package Dependency for Add-Ons
22:09 Multi-Version Blender Add-On Testing (Test Installation)
Music:
Tunnel Surf – 4
FMA Microsongs / CC0 v1.0 (Public Domain)
Zero Project – “Labyrinth”, “Ocean Trip”, “Moon Flight”
from album “E-World” Jamendo #85671 / CC By-SA 3.0
“The Secret Book of Dreams”, “The Age of the Empire”,
“The Defeat of the Demon King”, “The Lower Dungeons” (Excerpt)
from album “Fairytale 2” Jamendo #79368 / CC-By-SA 3.0
