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 Skolkovo Foundation. The concept involves development and promotion activities for OpenToonz, RenderChan, Synfig and Blender. Now we’re sending the document
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 Artem Konoplin to keep working on Synfig continuously. IMPORTANT NOTE FOR OUR PATRONS: If Synfig is your primary and only
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. This is result of ongoing re-thinking of structure of our project. And in this particular case – our infrastructure for
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 by our new hired developer Artem Konoplin. Fixed bug causing FilterGroup layer not save Origin parameter (issue #505). Fixed error
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 feel increasing responsibility on taking decisions, defining strategies and setting priorities. So, a week ago I have posted a poll
Synfig Development Report #51
Since the middle March of 2018 we have hired a new developer – Artem Konoplin (known as “ice0” on GitHub). His initial mission is to fix bugs and improve stability of current feature set of Synfig. Though, as usual, things gone beyond of that (details
Concept of Ivan updated
Hello! Anastasia on line! (ง ื▿ ื)ว I have made an updatd version of Ivan’s concept, which is replacing the old one. Also, I have recorded the process of working on it. I plan to publish the timelapse video soon!
Koschei The Deathless (3D model)
This is a Blender 3D model of Koschei The Deathless – a villain robot from Morevna Animated series. The model is completely textured and rigged. You can download and re-use this model for free under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
Production Report #20
It’s time to give a quick summary about our progress since the last production report! First and big: Nikolai Mamashev have finished mesh modeling for Koschei – the main villain of Morevna series. Here is our cutie: Some screenshots from our work process (cryptic Cyrillic
Mention in the credits for Morevna Episode 4
Just got together all names for “Sponsored by” section in final credits of Morevna Episode 4. It includes mentions of all awesome people who supported our crowdfunding campaign by claiming “Name in the credits reward”. Also, I couldn’t resist to mention our top patron Jared Sloane,
RenderChan Roadmap
We have started preparations for releasing stable version of RenderChan and with that I am happy to share a roadmap for its further development. Check it out here.