Morevna Project » 3d

Migrating to Blender 2.61

Konstantin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:43:33 +0000

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.

Random news

Konstantin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:45:48 +0000

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.

Nikolay takes 3D animatic and making some kind of vector overpaint. First, he have sketched few keyframes to get the idea about the image look. Then he traced them and animated using stickman template. He decided not to draw sketches for all the rest keyframes and continued tracing using the past keyframes and 3D image as references. Looks like this approach works out. 4 seconds, 4 soldiers, 8 legs = lot of work. Though, Synfig simplifies work very much – we don’t have to trace EACH frame. The animation is estimated as 20% done and the uncompressed file size is already at 25 Mb…

Working on shot 16

Next. I have discovered awesome resource – http://www.blendswap.com/. There is a lot high quality 3D models there, all under friendly CC license! We already got drumset model and there’s so much more to consider (just look at all these car models!). Of course, we don’t forget to contribute back. ^__^

Also, recently I have discovered that “Donate” button on this website isn’t working. The reason is simple - accounts registered for the citizens of Russia can’t receive the payments. I guess this is why the amount of collected donations is zero (though, maybe I’m mistaken ^___^). Anyway, I should have find some workaround for this issue if we want to accept payments someday.

That’s all news for the moment. Stay tuned!

Car of Ivan Tsarevitch

Konstantin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:16:02 +0000

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

Bike model

Konstantin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:33:08 +0000

Marya Morevna’s bike layout.

Marya Morevna’s katana

Konstantin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:59 +0000

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.

Helicopter 3D model

Konstantin — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:57:25 +0000

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.