Morevna Project

I am proud to announce new version of “Remake” – unified build system for animation projects. It’s purpose to automatically track changes in your project files and render footage.

Download remake-0.3.tar.gz

This time we have delivered a number of major improvements, and “3″ in release number have some symbolic meaning – among rendering of Blender and Synfig files we got support for rendering third type of animation – Pencil, we got new rendering mode that allows to get stereo 3D output and finally files of mp3 audio format are supported as well.

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Here’s a shots in progress I’m currently working on. Again, this is all about animatic stuff.

Shot 55 camera synchronization

Making animatic for shot 56 in Pencil

Meanwhile, Nikolay Mamashev is back to the project for the whole summer. He is working hard on animation for shot 16. This is a real crusade, really boring work. Shot 16 showing soldiers’ foots running towards us.

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It took 11 workhours for me to get animatic for shot 41 done… Freaking unproductive, but hey, results! ^__^

Initial shot draft

Animatic @ frame 264

Animatic @ frame 360

Just as reminder that we aren’t dead – catched some screenshots during the animatic production process…

Almost kissing scene

At the gunpoint

Big thanks to Vyacheslav Yastrebcev for the model of Ivan’s car. ^___^

We have updated Pencil packages. Please grab them from the packages page.

Major reasons to upgrade:

• Duplicate frame button
• Keybindings to control the applications

Notice that this version of Pencil is different from the official one. We have made several improvements and bug fixes. Unfortunately, they were not included into official version.

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Synfig Studio packages have been updated. It is release candidate for the upcoming 0.62.02 version with a lot of usability improvements. Please grab the updates from packages page.

Major reasons to upgrade:

• Smart linking for tangents.
• Option to forbid animation for any layer parameter to avoid accidental change in the animation mode.
• New default blend method option – “By Layer Default”.

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It’s been a long time since we posted last demo snapshot. I guess it’s time for another one. ^_^

Download Ogg/Theora video: demo-20101010.ogv (34Mb).

Shot 51: Artwork by Eleonora Pala

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Priestess-Sister character concept by Eleonora Pala:

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