Meanwhile Nikolay struggle with keyframes, Erik Castillo has finished the promised 3D model of soldier. I was a little worried about the lack of such model, because we need it in shot 35 for keyframes drawing (this is a very complex shot where the soldiers are thrown into the air). Luckily Erik did best to cover us here. Now I can proceed to playing with shot 35.

Also we will need soldier models in shot 07 – it is where camera does a long turn around Ivan and Morevna and soldiers getting up from the ground and surrounding them. For this we will need 5-6 variations of this basic soldier to use all them in shot 07. It will be the next step. Stay tuned!

Finally, we have started updating Morevna repository for Blender 2.61. As you might remember we have used 2.49 before and of course we have many issues during migration. At the same time we started ultimate rework of battlefield concept. Here’s a few WIPs:

Shot 01

Shot 07

Special thanks for building models: Abolfazl Kanani, cody glassman, Sebastian Erler.

P.S. Updated blender packages are here.

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

Marya Morevna’s bike layout.

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.