Morevna Project

About

The main goal of Morevna Project is creation of full-lengthened anime movie, utilizing Open Source software only.

Other goals:

Promotion of Open Source software and its ideology.
Testing and improving existing Open Source products by giving appropriated feedback to developers and community.
Validate Open Source tools as suitable for creation of professional good-looking animation.
Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use, including documentation and tutorials

Main production tools:

2D animation: Synfig Studio.
3D modeling and animation: Blender.
Static images: GIMP, Krita.

FAQ

Q: Is there any organization financing the project?
A: No. We are not receiving any sponsor support or subsidy funds at this time.

Q: Do you plan to publish sources of your project?
A: We are planning to publish source materials under one of Creative Commons Licenses when, where and if it possible. Some sources are already published - license is clearly indicated in corresponding posts of this blog.

Help

We are looking for creative people to help our project:

Characters designers (drawing in anime style required).
Keyframe animators (making extreme key drawings of characters/objects operating in scene, drawing in anime style required).
Inbetweeners (making smooth animation based on drawn keyframes with Synfig Studio).
Background painters.
3D designers (knowledge of blender required).

If you are not good at drawing, animation or 3D modeling you still can participate in project! You can support us in following ways:

Translation of project documentation from Russian into English. Even if you don’t know Russian but know English very well you can help the project by correcting our existing translations.
If you are good at C/C++ programming we appreciate if you help with the development of Synfig Studio or contirbute to Synfig project in any other way.
Just give us your feedback or constructive critique.