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.

The next important step is polishing up the English dialog. I’m thinking about using something like Pootle for that purpose. It looks like this is the only open-source solution for that kind of task, or am I wrong? After we get good English text for the dialog, we can use the same tool for creating fansubs in other languages. And of course, having English and Russian translations for the characters’ lines is a significant milestone, because at this point we will be ready to record voices. Most probably, that won’t happen earlier than the demo release, but hey, who knows? ^__^

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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!

The Beautiful Queen Marya Morevna: Production Cuts by MorevnaProject is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

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.

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?

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He definitely could be identified as a smart guy. Not genius, but smart and that’s suits him.

His parents died and he managed to raise his three sisters undertaking the role of elder brother (while not being the elder at all). Not too confident and not always aware about his own actions, but he is not a looser at all. When it comes to his devotions or justice he rarely will stand apart. His main passion – a car tuning. Also have a knowledge in electronics and cybernetics. Generally he’s just exposed to curiosity to know how the things works. Not paying much attention to his own reputation and never holding his emotions.

She is the biker-girl, riding the roads of the country armed with her katana. Not a bird of passage – she owns a luxury mansion – but can’t live without road and wind. She not falls in anger over trifles, but if she did, becomes a very dangerous enemy, especially considering the fact she handles katana in an expert manner. In the past she was a biker-gang leader, but all her gang members were killed. A tempered person, she could look very confident, but she just a very lonely in fact, and that loneliness could hurt her more than anything else. Hotblooded by nature she not used to trust people and often forced to hide her true feelings behind the mask of coldness and senseless. She gained a great power and should know how cold it feels being on top without anyone else on the same high. Loneliness is her worst enemy and feeling of guilt as shadow follows her.

There are quite a few people who earned her credence: Ivan, Nazar the Brave, Baba Yaga, and her gang members.