Project-related activities from October 2019 (edited in November 2023).

This month, I worked on assets for the Lunatics pilot, most notably the set-dressing for the open-air market set in the "Touring Baikonur" sequence. This month also almost the entire production of "The Devastation of the Xmas", a short film that I produced for a production by the Southwest Reprise Theatre in Fort Worth, TX. This was part of an extremely silly community-theater holiday play, which my daughter acted in.

I was also at the experimental phase of developing what has come to be the "Ink/Paint Compositing" feature in our "Anansi Blender Extensions" (ABX) add-on for Blender.

I began recording daily screencast worklogs in January 2019, but it took me quite awhile to work out a system for what to do with them. I did not create any "topical summaries" or "monthly timelapse" videos from them at the time. This month, I decided to start doing the 2019 logs after completing the current ones, as I find the monthly timelapses are much better for documentation.

And then I decided to create the slightly-redacted "timelapse" version to put here.

Highlights

Lunatics Production: 00:12 Drawing the 2D flats for shot LA-1-D, in the launch sequence (Krita, then Inkscape). 07:09 Modeling the 3D steps and railing for LA-1-D. 07:44 Laying out the 2D background trees flats for the "Cosmonaut Trees" set (for "Touring Baikonur"). 08:15 Drawing image textures for the decorative boxes on the Market Set. 10:14 Clothing rack flats for Market Set. 10:43 Bookshop shelves for Market Set. 11:45 Fruit rack (apples). 13:19 Folded clothing rack. 13:22 Decorative box 3D models. 15:28 Integration of set and props into shot TB-2-D (Hiromi buying one of the boxes for Georgiana from a salesman in the market). 15:42 Working on TB-2-E (Hiromi and Georgiana walking out of the market). 15:52 Bookcase color and bump texture images. 16:24 Bookcase 3D models. 16:45 Integrating bookcases with market set (bookshop). 17:15 Flip-flop plastic storage crates. 18:44 Market Set 2D backdrop flat (Inkscape). 20:17 Additional product racks for Market Set (boxes, cans, & bottles). 21:07 Placing products in Market Set (Note the ad hoc python scripting to distribute mesh changes). 22:44 Test renders with new set in shot TB-2-D/E. 23:07 Adding billboard extras to the shots TB-2-D/E (note that BB extras are in the shot files, not sets).

Other Production: 24:43 Editing SWRT performance of "Alice in Wonderland" (video of play), courtroom scene. 25:48 "Devastation of the Xmas": clipart-based Blender cut-out animation, including some animated sprites made in Inkscape.

Development: 46:10 ABX development. Set-up in Eclipse. Blender API experimentation. Ink/Paint compositing feature.

Music for this Month:

B2B - Short and Sharp FMA Microsongs / CC0 v1.0 (Public Domain)

Bruce McCosar "The Next Age of Adventure" "Rain Just Keeps Coming Down" "To Journey Over Ice" "The Last Word Is Hope" "Walking Through Daydreams" "Downburst" "Charlie Always Remembered" "The Island" "How Many Miles Beyond" from "The Next Age of Adventure 1" Jamendo #65510 / CC By-SA 3.0

Bruce McCosar "The Last Star Before Daybreak" "Strange Lights in the Sky" "To Dance in Nameless Places" "Dreams from the Shore"

from "The Next Age of Aventure 2" Jamendo #65552 / CC BY-SA 3.0