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May 2017 Summary

Highlights Got paid for software contract (final payment). Purchased computer hardware. Finished building “Giles” (file server), and…

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Photo of hexagonal trading cards with character info on them.

December 2016 Summary

Highlights Designed prototype trading card set (incomplete). Received components from Adafruit for Render Cluster (front panel lights)….

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September 2016 Summary

Highlights Basic computer maintenance. Work on commercial software contract. Studio Library Construction Work This month I continued…

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June 2016 Summary

Highlights Progress Bar for Website Fundraisers I tried creating an Patreon-API based “progress bar” to put on…

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Partially installed framing for office extension.

Infrastructure Projects Update

Most of my time lately has been dedicated to remodeling work on our office here in Texas. This…

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March/April 2016 Newsletter Cover

March/April 2016 Newsletter

After a one-month medical hiatus, Director & Producer (and Newsletter Editor!) Terry Hancock is back to work…

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Georgiana Development Sequence

Happy New Year 2016!

This production log has been pretty neglected over the last year, with most of my posts appearing…

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January 2016 Newsletter Cover

January 2016 Newsletter

This is our first newsletter since we added epub format and opened newsletters to more Patreon patrons,…

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Handling Languages in Lunatics!

As we’ve already mentioned in an earlier update, Lunatics! will start out with two soundtracks — one in “original language” and one in “English-only”. These tracks will be nearly identical most of the time, but they will handle the few cases of characters speaking other languages differently.

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Helmer Cluster Build (2008)

Technical Requirements for Lunatics – Render Cluster

One of the line items on the budget for this Kickstarter is to build a “render cluster”. You might be wondering what that is, and why we might need one.

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Currently mixing voices for the pilot episode

Terry Hancock is currently busy mixing voice recordings for the dialog in “No Children in Space”. This is mostly a matter of fitting all of the lines together and making sure th levels match and the lines will fit reasonably well together. Last wee we shipped the artbooks and posters from our first Kickstarter — hopefully backers have either already received these by now or will in the next few days. Of course, we are still waiting a little longer on the data disks, as we hope to include the audio/animatic production tha we’re working on now.

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Voice Cast Reading

Despite missing our Kickstart goal, we just completed our cast reading for both the pilot “No Children in Space” and “Earth”. This went very smoothly — even better than we hoped. We’ll now be working on recording the lines and putting together an animatic to guide the animation production process. It’ll probably b pretty quiet for awhile as we work on this.

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