It’s been a long time since Synfig Studio 0.62.00 came out. But because of our absence this significant event didn’t get mentioned here. It’s time to “redress an injustice”. We’re on 0.62.00 now. The packages page is updated.
Major reasons to upgrade:
As some of you may know, four months ago Morevna Project was suspended because of personal issues. Now I’m happy to inform everyone that we are back on track. Stay tuned! Punk not dead! Etc, etc…
Some time ago we have described TimeControl technique which allows to fine-tune animation timing without quality loss, and now we have applied that technique to shot 20 to get SlowMo effect.
Download ogg-video: slowmo.ogv.
You can examine animation sources here. Animation have complex structure and splitted into parts – each character in separate file. All parts have normal timing and composed together in the 20-3.sif file (you see it in the first part of the video). SlowMo effect is applied in 20.sif file by importing 20-3.sif into it and changing the TimeOffset property.
Morevna Project is proudly presents an update of Stickman Template. Stickman Template is used for character animation. It tends to simplify setup when you want to make animation in cutout technique or something more complex.
Changes:
Also notice the license change – it’s CC Zero now! Enjoy!
Synfig Studio packages have been updated. Please grab them from the packages page.
Major reasons to upgrade:
More info:
A long time the only way to change keyframe position was only through editing Keyframes panel. In this version keyframes are displayed on the timeline and (yes!) you can drag them with mouse. You can also shift a bunch of keyframes by dragging with ALT key pressed.
New panel on top of the canvas window shows and allows to change display mode for a canvas. For example, it’s very handy to see which ducks types you have enabled at the moment.
Also, there is a good improvement that allows to manipulate ducks converted to “Scale” type. This improves workflow very much for such techniques like “Sewing Blines”. This improvement is one step to the “Smart tangents linking” feature.
Sometimes there are nasty changes in Synfig code happen and that causes overall Synfig instability. To track those changes we now have a tool called CPH monitor. It collects information about Synfig crashes and should give us necessary statistics about its overall stability. Of course this statistics is very approximated and depend on user activity type.
I think that update deserves a screenshot:
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P.S. By the way, CPH is stands for “crash per hour”. ^_^
Pencil is a open-source software for making traditional (frame-by-frame) animation. Now we packaging Pencil too, because we using it intensively for producing animation sketches (animatics).
NOTE: You need Qt >= 4.3.4 installed to run Pencil.
You may notice decreasing of post count here lately. No, we’re not dead – just busy working on the project! Lots of news and unfortunately completely no time to write about.
One year passed by since morevnaproject.org was born…
It was a really good year. Many things happened. Amazing things. Yes, the project is far from completion… but you still here, our dear reader, and that means what your hope for us is not lost. Thank you for believing in us, thank you for your great support. We’re moving. But before we go further, let’s take a look back to see what’s already behind.
Download Ogg/Theora video: demo-animatic.ogv (20Mb).
That’s it. Happy Birthday, morevnaproject.org! Let’s keep moving.
Some weapon layouts from ByeZif and Ivashka:
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Almost six months passed by since the last snapshot – half of a year. You won’t see much changes in this snapshot – few shots drawn, new lightning model for the battle episodes…
What have been really done during that period? The best way to answer the question is to watch the posts on the blogs between those two distant, but so similar snapshots. In short – it’s a setting infrastructure. Git, wiki, feeds, documentation… All those things necessary for successful collaboration. Workflow polishing, characters development… As you see from the project status post the Demo is still a long way to go. Do we wanna go the whole way now? Sure, we still do.
