Morevna Project

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

Priestess-Sister character concept by Eleonora Pala:

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Here’s some artwork pieces from the past week:

Ivan's Sisters layouts WIP by Varvara Zaharova

Shot 49 artwork by Eleonora Pala

I 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.

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As 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.

Download video

Here are some reports about Ubuntu @ Anime Boston 2010:

• DoctorMo’s Blog – AnimeBoston: Why Are We Here?
• The Silent Number – Thank you for Ubuntu’s success at Anime Boston 2010!

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Just 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.

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?

Download: English, Russian.

• Gender: Male.
• Age: 18.
• Height: 1,75 m.
• Hairs: Orange.
• Eyes: Green.
• Zodiac sign: Leo.
• Formula: “Shake it, break it, fix it, take it”.

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• 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”.

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