Synfig Tutorial: Converters
A few months ago, as part of our fundraising campaign for Synfig optimization, we got a generous contribution from Anonymous sponsor, who have claimed a “Video Tutorial” reward. And the video tutorial is finally here! In this lesson you will learn: What is Converters. How
Toonz goes open-source?
This one made me check that it isn’t 1st of April today. No, it’s obviously not. So, here’s how it is: Toonz animation software is announced to be released as open-source! Toonz is a 2D animation software developed by Digital Video S.p.A., used in production
Production Report #12
Here goes another quick update about production of new episode of Morevna. Things moving fast! In the previous report I have mentioned 50+ new shots added to the scene of Koschei’s resurrection. Good news here – they are almost all painted now! Our lead artist
Creating lipsync with Synfig Studio and Papagayo
In the context of our work on the new episode of Morevna we have asked our developer Ivan Mahonin to implement an integration of Synfig Studio with Papagayo lipsync software. This feature is ready now and available in the latest development builds of Synfig. We
Dynamic light test in Synfig
For several shots in upcoming episode of Morevna I want to have dynamic shadows effect. Today we made a quick test to see how this could be achieved in Synfig. You can download source file of this sample here: synfig-dynamic-shadows.zip. Related images for this shot
Production Report #11
A quick update about the upcoming Morevna episode. Here is a production chart, illustrating our progress. If you compare this chart with the last one, you might notice that the value for “Artwork” is decreased. That’s because of changes, we made to the scene of
First version of RenderChan plugin for Blender
Several posts ago I have mentioned contributions made by Scribblemaniac to RenderChan development. He is also works on RenderChan integration plugin for Blender, and here’s a demonstration of its first version.
Russian crowdfunding – Success!
Great news here! Today our Russian crowdfunding campaign have reached its goal! This is an important milestone for our project and it means two things: In the new episode of Morevna we will have high-quality Russian voicing. The new episode will be released in the
Baba Yaga (lineart concept)
According to Russian folklore, Baba Yaga is an old witch, who usually plays her own line and can appear as either a donor or villain, or may be altogether ambiguous. Baba Yaga won’t appear in the episode that we’re working on right now. But we
Coloring timelapse video
Anastasia Majzhegisheva made a timelapse video showing her work in Krita. Music: “Young” by Other Noises. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
Production Report #10
Hey, it’s been a while since the last production report. Lot of things happened! Let’s summarize the last three months. As it was announced earlier, we have made an agreement with recording studio of Reanimedia Ltd. to produce Russian voicing for upcoming episode. In the