This month, I did a lot of production work, which accounts for most of this video:

First experiments with manually setting up compositing from rendered EXR-stream animation. SR-SoyuzRollout sequence completed, including re-timing SR-1-C and revising the music to accommodate the longer sequence. Revised Kdenlive assembly for TB-TouringBaikonur and TR-Train sequences.

Worked on reconstruction of TR-Train shot. This is to undo accidentally link breakage that happened years ago, as well as revising the external shot to use an alpha-transparency to be composited with TR-3 animation from the train interior (no longer trying to animate Georgiana separately in TR-2.

I also installed Blender on the Dell PowerEdge R720 server, copied the Lunatics source and Render folders to it, and started rendering shots there. I purchased this server to use for colocation of our web resources, replacing the current Cloud-based configuration. But I realized that while I have the server on site, I should use it to do rendering. It's much faster than my workstation, and I'm not ready to deploy it as a web server yet.

HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 Title Card 00:15 EXR Compositing Nodes 02:16 Regenerate Pad Crew Animation Loops for SR Sequence 04:06 Re-Timing and Revising of SR-1-C Close Pass of Soyuz on Transporter 05:54 Reconstruction of TR-2-A Shot of Train Exterior 08:31 Rendering Shots 14:36 Assembling Lunatics Sequences: SR, TB, TR 20:46 Experimental Development 21:57 Rsync Push/Pull Scripts 23:02 Photos from August 23:31 Covered and Replaced Server Shelf 23:53 Re-Mounted Fire Extinguisher 23:59 Patreon/Credits