Posts Tagged ‘concept’
Priestess-Sister
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010Artwork pieces
Thursday, September 16th, 2010Screenplay translation
Monday, May 3rd, 2010I 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.
Production Cuts
Monday, April 26th, 2010As 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:
Slavic Paganism
Friday, October 31st, 2008Just found amazing resource dedicated to slavic paganism. Honestly, for me, grown in Russia, this reading was full of discoveries. Just two quotes:
Koshchei. Koshchei the Deathless for his supposed invulnerability; noted for being the abductor of beautiful princesses. He is a powerful wizard or demigod who gains immortality by keeping his fiery soul hidden. He kidnaps Marena (Mara, Marya Morevna), the Russian goddess of death. He tells her the location of his soul, which she tells the story’s hero (usually a son or husband: Dazhdbog, Prince Ivan, Prince Astrach, etc.). Koshchie is the son of Vij, lord of the Underground, and travels on a war-horse or as a whirlwind.
Marena, Mara, Marya, Morevna. Russian winter- and death- goddess. In one myth, she is a sorceress and enchantress who turned the sun-god Dazhbog into an ox. She refused to change him back until his father Perun agreed that they should marry. However, she later left him for Koshchei, son of the Underworld lord Vij. They conspired to kill Dazhbog, who was searching for her. She drugged him, and Koshchei threw him down a well. Finally, she nailed him to a mountain in the Caucasus, but the goddess Zhiva rescued him. Dazhbog finally had his revenge.
Despite this unsavory tale, Marena survived into Christian times as St. Mary, the consort of St. Ivan, who is Dazhbog.
And surprise! Something I wrote in screenplay is really have much in common with some concepts explained there, while I really thought what I devised it by myself! If you are someone who wants to dig deeper into Story, than that page is for you. Happy Halloween.
Storyboard update
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Finally managed to incorporate latest changes into demo storyboard paper.
We left numbers of the existing scenes untouched and as result numbering across the storyboard became a little inconsistent. It is handy to refer to shots by numbers – each shot in separate directory with corresponding number. So we decided what it’s better to have inconsistent numbers somewhere, rather than mess up with directory renaming (which also involves fixing Makefiles). At the end we have much more important things to do, aren’t we?
Character profile: Ivan “Tsarevitch”
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008- Gender: Male.
- Age: 18.
- Height: 1,75 m.
- Hairs: Orange.
- Eyes: Green.
- Zodiac sign: Leo.
- Formula: “Shake it, break it, fix it, take it”.
Character profile: Marya Morevna
Sunday, June 1st, 2008- Gender: Female.
- Age: 20.
- Height: 1,59 m.
- Hairs: Violet.
- Eyes: Blue.
- Zodiac sign: Aquarius.
- Formula: “Do what you will, go where you want & take care of everything”.









