Yesterday our renderfarm has rendered last frame of Morevna Episode 4 and we are ready for release! Last weeks were completely crazy, and especially last days (no sleep for 30 hours when doing final animation fixes). And all this right before our flight to Morevna Tour.
Yes, that’s right – Morevna Tour!
I am writing this from Moscow. Me and our lead artist Anastasia Mayzhegisheva are in the tour for presenting new episode of Morevna in 3 cities of Russia – Moscow, Voronezh and Ulyanovsk.
Here is the schedule:
- 01.05.2019, 15:00-18:00 (Moscow local time) – An informal meeting of Morevna Project fans and presentation of Morevna Episode 4 in Moscow (known as “MorevnaCon 2019”).
The meeting brings together people interested in open-source software and animation. We expect to meet Alexandre Prokoudine from Libre Graphics World, Artem Konoplin (our Synfig developer comrade), Vladimir Pylev (author of Lineyka – Animation Production Automation Tool) and other awesome people. Event page here (in Russian). - 03.05.2019, 14:00 (Voronezh local time) – We will give a talk about Morevna Project and present Morevna Episode 4 at 20th Festival of Japan Animation in Voronezh. Details here (in Russian).
- 03.05.2019, 23:55 (Voronezhlocal time) – For the first time ever Morevna Episode 4 will be screened in cinema! It will be shown at the beginning of “Anime Night” event of 20th Festival of Japan Animation in Voronezh. Details here (in Russian).
- 05.05.2019 – Online premiere of Morevna Episode 4 for our patrons on Patreon and sponsors of our crowdfunding campaign. A private link for episode will be sent via email.
- 06.05.2019 and 07.05.2019 – We are invited by “Ulyanovsk – Capital of Culture” foundation to visit Ulyanovsk for two days to give a series of workshops and talks for promotion of open-source animation software. Details available here (in Russian). This include following events (all free admission):
- 06.05.2019, 14:00-17:30 (Ulyanovsk local time) – Presentation of Morevna Episode 4 + workshop on creating animation with open-source software. Registration for event here.
- 07.05.2019, 11:00 (Ulyanovsk local time) – A public talk “Establishing open animation school with free software”. Registration for event here.
- 07.05.2019, 14:00 (Ulyanovsk local time) – A public talk “A case of Altai Republic as an example of developing animation industry”. Registration for event here.
And finally, we are ready to announce the dates of public release! Morevna Episode 4 will be publicly released online:
- at our PeerTube channel on 30.05.2019 (by the way, this is a birthday date, which marks 11 years since our project got started ^__^);
- at our YouTube channel on 06.06.2019.
Save the date and let’s celebrate this together! By the way, if you wish to organize any local events related with public premiere of Morevna, let us know – we will be happy to announce it at our blog.
