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  A little "Lunatics!" 2026 status update: This has been a long, hard road -- over a decade, in fact, with many bumps, side excursions, and detail that will require several chapters in a book I plan to write to actually explain, but... ​:ani_dab_r:​ ANIMATION ON EPISODE ONE IS FINISHED! ​:ani_dab_l:​ ​:smug_dance:​ I AM NOW TRANSFORMED INTO A "SOUND GUY". ​:ab1nzyblob2:​​:kermit_shout:​​:microphone:​​:audacity:​​:freesound:​​:archive:​ At least for awhile. (Posted to pin)...

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  I may have overdone the dust effect now. ​:sparkles_anim:​ ​:ani_dunno:​ Kind of looks like it's snowing in there. #Blender3D

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  I'm quite pleased with myself for this cheesy transition in Kdenlive. It's just a couple of title clips, with SVG "eyelash" images for top and bottom, a little bit of box blur, and then animated with the "title scroll animation" feature. ​:ani_dab_l:​ Just 5 frames (1/6th of a second at 30fps), but I think it sweetens the transition and sells the "blinding light" idea much better than a hard cut. #Kdenlive #Animation

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  One thing about open source production is that it motivates me to make the behind-the-scenes "internal documents" nicer. I just updated the titlecard for the "LA-Launch" sequence and regenerated "storyboard" clips from the scene (sort of an "after the fact" storyboard for documenting the source tree -- I do also have the real, crufty ink-pen storyboards I drew before all this! There isn't room for all 23 shots in the scene (let alone the extra stills...

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  Well. Thanks to some feedback I got this weekend, I have discovered that some of my older videos on PeerTube are broken. I don't know if those just broke when I upgraded to v8, or if they've been like that for a long time. I suspect it's the latter. Probably due to issues with failed migration away from object storage. This will take some tedious tinkering to fix. In the end, I suspect it will be easier to just re-upload new copies of the videos in question (I should have offline co...

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  This is somewhat exciting: I now have a complete episode of "Lunatics!" ​:ani_dab_l:​​:sintel_excited:​​:lunatics:​ There's still some brokenness, but nothing is actually missing. All the shots are here. I made a few tweaks just now, and I'm going to look at it again. I have a little list of nitpicks to fix, so it's going to go through another cycle, but this does feel like a breakthrough. Oh, and with credits, it's now 23 minutes long. 30 seconds of that is a brief...

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  Huh. The UFO in the elevator shot isn't part of the elevator or attached to the camera. It's my billboard Moon in the far background. So, either I have to figure out why the billboard is getting inked (and fix that), or I could just move the Moon, I guess. Did I put it there on purpose, like for art reasons? I honestly can't remember! Also... check out the cool sky rig I made. I did that years ago. Haven't looked at it in quite awhile! I forgot how cool that was.