New course: Cut-out animation in Blender
I am happy to announce that we have released a new video training course! In this course you will learn how to use Blender open-source software to create animation in cut-out technique. Many people know that Blender is a powerful tool for creating 3D animation,
Car of Ivan Tsarevich (3D model)
Car of Ivan Tsarevich (3D Blender model) is now available for download! It is completely rigged and ready for use. You can download it for free and use under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This is a 3D model of car for
Russian president and animation: What happened in May 2017?
This post was a long due in my queue, but I haven’t had an opportunity to concentrate on writing it. Now it can’t postpone it any more. TL;DR: Russian government is going to provide ~$2 000 000 to support development of animation software in Russia
Production report #19: Last hours of our crowdfunding campaign. And beyond.
As of the moment while I am writing this, there are only 8 hours remaining till the end of our crowdfunding campaign. Well, it is getting clear that it is not reaching its goal. From one side this is sad, as we will be unable
New developer will join Synfig development since March 2018
Big news: I have made an agreement with a new developer to join our team for developing Synfig open-source animation software. Artem Konoplin will join us in March as a second hired developer to work on most critical and highly-demanded bugs of Synfig. I will
Pepper & Carrot will be screened at SuzdalFest
I am happy to announce, that Pepper & Carrot Motion Comic got selected to be screened at XXIII Russian Animation Festival in Suzdal (aka SuzdalFest). SuzdalFest is a biggest animation event in Russia, which is attended by representatives from all major animation studios of Russia,
Screenshots of Ivan’s car model
Here are some working screenshots of Ivan’s car model, that is created by Nikolai Mamashev for Morevna Episode 4. It is almost ready and will be published for free download soon!
Synfig Studio 1.3.6 released
We are happy to present you the new development version of Synfig Studio! This version delivers you the new feature – Filter Groups. Filter Groups act just like ordinary groups, with just one exceptions – they do not limit scope for layers. That means, if
Crowdfunding video: Team
We have published a new video about our crowdfunding campaign, where you can meet our team members, see a few moments of our working process and watch some draft scenes from upcoming Morevna Episode 4.
Cut-out animation in Blender – Lesson 1
This is a first lesson of our upcoming video training course – “Cut-out animation in Blender”. In the full course you will learn how to use Blender open-source software to create animation in the same technique, as it was used for creating Pepper & Carrot
Draft model of Ivan’s car is available for download
Nikolai Mamashev have finished the modeling routines for Ivan’s car and today we are happy to publish results of his work for free download! This model is created in Blender and is still work-in-progress. The final version will be fully textured and will include a
Artwork vectorization with bones
Some people ask us – how to use the features illustrated in our Stickman tutorials with the latest version of Synfig? The thing is that Stickman is an old technology, developed by us to emulate bones features in old versions of Synfig. Since version 1.0