Single draft keyframe for the first scene of demo showing Ivan laying on the ground.

Here’s the animatique for the 12th scene of demo.

The original 6 positions of human figure were drawn in Pencil. That allows us to set timing properly and to get the idea of the motion in general. Then we imported keyframes in Synfig Studio and created smooth motion.

Now, when we ensured what animation is looks smooth enough we could proceed with redraw of original 6 keyframes in detail.

Marya Morevna’s bike layout.

Denis has managed to assemble all parts of the 24th scene into his first animation for this project. I suppose some of our readers are already saw this katana. The background is kindly provided by Carlos López González.

• Gender: Male.
• Age: 18.
• Height: 1,75 m.
• Hairs: Orange.
• Eyes: Green.
• Zodiac sign: Leo.
• Formula: “Shake it, break it, fix it, take it”.

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Morevna Project finally got its own apartments, where the production of the demo will take place. The whole space is 70 square meters, we have two working rooms, one rest room and kitchen. For now there are just three working places. Not a Blender Institute , but that should be enough to give a start to the real work.

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A 3D model of Marya Morevna’s katana was created for scene 24 of demo storyboard.

Download original model: katana.blend.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Here’s layout of helicopter. The model is not completely tuned, but it already could be used. Other stuff could be fixed during the animation process.

Helicopter state is controlled by IPO drivers. Watch it in action: ipo-drivers-demo.ogg.

• Gender: Female.
• Age: 20.
• Height: 1,59 m.
• Hairs: Violet.
• Eyes: Blue.
• Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
• Formula: “Do what you will, go where you want & take care of everything”.

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