Our animated shorts are
produced according to Ethic Cinema concept
Created with free software
We use only free/open-source software - Synfig Studio, OpenToonz, Krita, Blender, and others.
Licensed under Creative Commons
The result of our work is free to watch and distribute for everyone. Released under the terms of Creative Commons license.
Available for remix
All animation sources are available for free download, so you can use them for learning or create remixes.
In production
Check the latest news about our next animated short – Morevna Episode 4!
Free software development
As part of production process we are developing and improving free software animation tools and technologies. Our team is actively contributing to development of Synfig and OpenToonz animation software, developing RenderChan automated rendering system, maintaining Papagayo-NG lipsync software and writing a lot of supplementary scripts to help with animation production.
Synfig Studio
Animation
OpenToonz
(Morevna Edition)
Animation
RenderChan
Rendering management and automation
Papagayo-NG
Lipsync
Education and Training
We are documenting our animation production process and developed technologies by creating learning videos, tutorials and other educational content to help others learn from our practices.
Library of reusable content
We are sharing reusable content (3D models, templates, images) that you can use in your own animations for free.
Our team
We are a team of individuals who passionate about free software and animation.
Project Leader
2D/3D Artist
2D Artist
Developer
Sound Designer
Partners
Follow our progress
We believe that the process of creating animation is no less interesting than the result itself. This is why we put a lot of efforts into documenting our production process. Check out the latest news below!
Pepper & Carrot Episode 6: Fandub by “3df voice” studio
Pepper & Carrot Episode 6 got a new fandub work! You might be remember a group of anime fans from 3dfdub studio (Tula, Russian Federation), who
Separation of Synfig project
In my recent post I have elaborated about two segments of our audience and the changes we made to our infrastructure to fit them better.
A quick update about results of my initiative on promoting OpenToonz
A quick followup to my travel report: In collaboration with “SoyuzMultFilm” animation studio we have finished first version of “The Big Picture concept” document for
Morevna Traditional Kimono sketch
Artwork by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva. Licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Painted in Krita. Download source KRA file
Synfig got a Patreon page!
We have set up a dedicated Patreon page for Synfig! The donations collected through this page will allow us to keep our new hired developer
Rethinking strategy for posting updates
If you following our updates at Patreon, then you probably noticed the changes of last two weeks – the updates got smaller and more frequent.
Synfig Studio 1.3.7 Released
We are happy to announce that the new development version of Synfig Studio is available for download! This version delivers a set of fixes made
Patreon poll results
I do not know how much that visible from outside, but our project is in the middle of intensive growing. In such periods I am
