Papagayo tutorial by Terry Hancock
Terry Hancock from the Lunatics project made a tutorial showing how to use our build of Papagayo to create lipsync animation. Enjoy!
Production Report #9: Thumbnail grid
It’s time for a quick update about the progress! But wait, I have a strong suspicion that some of my readers a bit tired from my progress charts… Enough of numbers! Here is a thumbnail grid made from our latest snapshot.
Production Report #8: Coloring
In my previous report I have promised a post about our coloring process. And here it comes! The coloring task is not that resource-demanding as vectorization, but still this is quite a big routine. That’s why we have asked for help the students of our
Anastasia makes fun of …
Anastasia Majzhegisheva is working hard on drawing artwork for the new episode of Marya Morevna. But sometimes, when looking through the production files, I am discovering something really unusual…
Title design
“The Beautiful Queen Marya Morevna” is the title of our anime series. Anastasia Majzhegisheva is thinking on its design.
Production Report #7: Style and technique
Let me start this production report by sharing the status chart indicating our progress of the upcoming episode. At the chart you can see the key stage of our production – “Screenplay”, “Animatic”, “Artwork”, etc. If you compare this chart with the production plan that
How to effectively filter free music on Jamendo
So you are searching for free, non-restricted music on Jamendo. If you look at the “Advanced search” options, you will notice that default dropdown list allows to choose “Attribution” and “Attribution-ShareAlike” licenses separately. But in general case I want both (and I want to avoid
In the cellar (background WIP)
Anastasia Majzhegisheva is working on the background for the cellar locaton. Early drafts of this scene:
Artwork Archive version 2
Our Artwork Archive got a new interface! The new version now much more comfortable for browsing and introducing the following features: Display thumbnails for album covers You can get email notifications about the new content Sharing buttons Deeplinking for each individual image
Production Report #6: Music choice
Good news! The music choice is done! This time we have 100%-free soundtrack, with compositions from Mattias Westlund, Kevin MacLeod, Olivier Girardot, Per Kiilstofte, Andy Vidersky and the bands – The Vegetarians and Radio Nowhere. Much thanks for all artists for the awesome tracks! On
Automatic attribution for Freesound.org
Have you ever used effects from Freesound.org in your videos? Yeah, it is awesome resource! But have you ever tried to make a proper attribution/credit list? Pain! It’s no wonder that the freesound.org have a special forum section about legal and attribution issues. The resource
