I am happy to announce the first release of “Remake” – unified build system for animation projects.
As I wrote some time ago, it’s purpose to automatically track changes in your project files and update rendered footage where needed.
“Remake” is released under GNU GPLv3 and available for download here.
There’s also nice tutorial about its usage.
For more information please visit project homepage.
Terry Hancock wrote an interesting article about translation of Morevna Project’s script: read now.
Sometimes people ask me why do we keep Morevna’s repositories private? Why not have them out in the open the way free-software projects do? I decided to write this post to clarify the situation.
We are successfully applying the principles of free software development to animation production, and for that reason some people used to think that those processes should be followed completely, but I think this is not correct. Let me point to some differences between the two activities.
It’s been a long time since I’m wrote something useful here. Though, lots of things happened during that period and I feel a need to share with you, my dear readers, some random thoughts.
Last time I have a lot of work with Synfig Studio. Making Production Cuts video and directing some external Synfig animation projects lead me to the idea of improving morevnaproject’s rendering system.
Currently the rendering system is based on pure “make” and works the same way as typical build system used to compile Linux software: you write rules in special “Makefiles”, describing how to compile (in our case – render) your files. (more…)
On May 31, 2010 new version of Synfig Studio was released. You can download it from the packages page.
Major reasons to upgrade:
Today is the second birthday of morevnaproject.org. Looking back at the past year, I can tell that it was a very hard year for the project.
I haven’t wrote much on this blog last year, but for me it brought a lot of experience and was full of amazing discoveries. I met outstanding creative people, here I want to name two of them who just strike me with their talent and passion to work on the project – Nikolay Mamashev (I miss your helping hand!) and Terry Hancock (your work on screenplay is invaluable and your ideas are always outstanding!). The way you both understanding this project is always amazed me, I’m proud that I know you, guys!
Also I would like to thank everyone who keeps watching our progress, send me their feedback and supports me – thank you for being here all that time. Show is going on, Happy Birthday, morevnaproject.org!
I am happy to announce that we have just completed the first draft of our screenplay translation. Of course there’s still a lot of work on dialog, format, and style, but at least it’s already readable for English-speaking audiences. For those who are not afraid of spoilers or want to join further translation efforts, the full text of the screenplay translation is available here.
I want to say a big thanks to all contributors and especially to Terry Hancock aka Digitante who has been working on the translation with great dedication and has made it progress this far.
As you remember, Morevna Project was going to be promoted at Anime Boston 2010 by Ubuntu Massachusets Local Community Team. We have decided not to go with the usual demo snapshot and prepared a special video with production cuts. Now event is over and we are happy to share this video with you.
Here are some reports about Ubuntu @ Anime Boston 2010:
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The Ubuntu Massachusets Local Community Team is making an ambitious effort to bring anime fans to the world of Open Source at the Anime Boston 2010 convention. At their booth in the dealers’ room they plan to hand out Ubuntu LiveCDs and copies of the Ubunchu Manga, do some cool demonstrations, perform live installations and… whoa! They’re going to promote the Morevna Project and its production tools!
From my personal experience (as part of both Linux and anime communities) I can tell that for some strange reason anime fans have a natural aptitude towards Open Source and vice versa. It’s a good step to make them closer and this event may have a great impact on projects like Morevna, because the more anime fans will use Open Source tools – the more prospective contributors we have around. ^__^
The event is entirely community funded and they need your support. Please visit the event homepage for details.
