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
Test your lipsync artwork in Krita using Compositions feature
This shows how to use Compositions feature to test how well your artwork is prepared for animation. In this example I will be testing various mouth shapes prepared for lipsync.
New artwork: Eleanora
Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download source file
Production Report #18: First results of Nikolai’s work
Our production is in full swing and now is the time for the first report in this year! And this report is special, because it is written by me – the main artist of the project Anastasia Mayzhegisheva. This is my first report, please wish
Inner Light
Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download source file
Nikolai Mamashev starts to work on Morevna Episode 4
Today our crowdfunding campaign received a generous donation of $300 from Yalyn Vinkindo. That made campaign to pass the $1000 threshold, which means we have enough funds to pay Nikolai Mamashev for the first month of work! That’s right – Nikolai starts working on Morevna
New artwork: Eleanora
This is a sister of Ivan, she’s a priestess, her name is Eleanora. In short – Elya (*°▽°*) Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project). License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download source file
OpenToonz (Morevna Edition) 1.2.0.2 released
We’ve just released a small but important update for OpenToonz Morevna Edition. This version delivers fixes for two critical issues: Fix incorrect behavior of graphic tablets. The incorrect behavior was reported by many Windows an Linux users and this turned to be related with latest
Just arrived: a copy of doctoral thesis by Julia Velkova
Just got a copy of doctoral thesis by Julia Velkova, which was was successfully defended on December 8th, 2017 at Södertörn University. This is a first ever PhD thesis about open-source animation software and people around it. It is about Blender, about Synfig, about Krita