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All Rewards Shipped!

Today, we posted the very last rewards, which were the three Lib-Ray-formatted versions of the pilot episode animatic, along with the dataset, which included all of the extras from the episode download page as well as a snapshot of the development source tree. Once we decided to release these in a format compatible with our developing Lib-Ray standard, we had to wait until we had enough of that standard defined to make sure they would match — but we’ve now reached that point with Lib-Ray, so it was possible to finalize these and get them shipped. And that marks the end of our Pre-Production Kickstarter! Hurray!

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Cover of Storyboard Animatic DVD

Penultimate post: DVD datasets finished!

This will probably be my next-to-last update.  The DVD data sets are being mailed (all but one of them is in the post, the last one will go out on my next trip to the post office). There are two disks in a double-disk thin-pack (I know I didn’t actually promise a case originally, but I had these already, and I thought they’d look nicer than just sending you a paper sleeve). Disk 1 is a hybrid video/data DVD. That is to say,  you can put it into a DVD-player and play it like you would any DVD movie, and there is also “DVD-ROM” content on the disk which you can get to by putting the disk into your computer (look in the “Extras” directory). The DVD features include:

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Still working on the animatic DVD

Well, this is taking a little longer than I planned, due to software problems I don’t even want to get started on (I’m having to do a lot of workarounds and trouble-shooting as a result). But I’m getting fairly close now. Just have to smash some more menu bugs. Much of the DVD-authoring also serves double for the USB flash drive versions, since it will be basically the same design (for these, I’ll be using the prototype Lib-Ray spec, which basically means a small on-disk website with linked videos). These will be “hybrid” DVDs with additional “DVD-ROM” content accessible by computer. I may have to be a little creative with that, since the whole production source tree is now too big to fit comfortably on a DVD. I’ll be paring it down some, and some content will probably be on a second disk. Meanwhile, of course, the video of the animatic is available on our website: http://lunatics.tv/Episodes/Pilot/Animatic

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Lunatics Pilot “No Children in Space” – Storyboard Animatic Uploaded

Just in time for Christmas:

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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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Rosalyn, Signing Artbooks

Signing and Shipping Physical Rewards

We now have all of the physical rewards in hand (that’s the character line-up posters and the artbooks), and we are working on signing and packaging those tonight ! I hope to get them into the mail tomorrow morning. Both have turned out beautifully! I’m very happy with ” Book One ” who was able to print the artbooks with color plates as well as the usual black-and-white content as well as ” Smartpress ” who has been doing our poster printing. Both have produced very high quality printing for us. Screenwriter Rosalyn Hunter signing a “Pre-Production Artbook & Writer’s Guide”.

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Special digital “Omake” gift…

As a special ” omake ” thank you gift to all of you who have supported the Kickstarter, I feel I should let you know about the download site we created for the first Kickstarter we ran. This is not a complete secret anymore, and we’re going to be opening it up soon anyway, but here it is: LUNATICS KICKSTARTER DOWNLOAD SITE This page has most of the digital-rewards-in-progress that we’ve been developing for this project. Some additional material (including the soundtrack) will be going up on this site soon. But already, you will find digital posters, desktop backgrounds, the finger puppets from the previous Kickstarter video, the artbook in PDF format, and so on.

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Artbooks Are Finished and Off to the Printer!

We have just (finally!) finished the “Pre-Production Artbook and Writer’s Guide” book layout, and it’s off t the printer to print the first batch!

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Soundtrack CD Disk Label

This morning I designed the label for the soundtrack CD for “No Children in Space”. This CD will have most of the music that appears in the pilot episode (a few more tracks will be available for download). This will be a full 70-minute CD with longer versions of many of the tracks that appear in the movie. It has been observed that because of our music-selection process, Lunatics may be the only free-film made so far with a 100% free-licensed soundtrack (the soundtracks for the Blender Open Movies have all been By-NC-SA licensed and Sita Sings the Blues has some issues with proprietary music compositions).

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Artbook Now Online

The artbook is now available in a digital edition on our DOWNLOAD SITE , which has moved,BTW to a simpler URL (I’m lifting the embargo on it since it has been awhile, even though there are still a few more things going up on the site yet): http://lunatics.tv/Downloads/2012_KS_DL 3    Prospectus & Production Design 13    Characters 15        The Lerner Family 23        The Farmer Family 33        Allen Emerson 37        Sarah 39        Others 45    Setting

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