Getting started with RenderChan
We have wrote a quick tutorial to help you get started with RenderChan. Read now
Sunset Wallpaper
We’ve got a new wallpaper from Anastasia Majzhegisheva. Anastasia painted this sunset artwork in Krita and recorded the whole process. Below you can find source KRA file and timelapse video. As usual, feel free to modify and re-use! Download source file: sunset.kra Music: “Ave Sensorium”
Young Baba Yaga (sketches)
From our earlier posts you might already know Baba Yaga, who is going appear in our story as an old scientist lady. This time Anastasia Majzhegisheva brings a few quick sketches revealing the past of this character.
Birthday comic strip (coloured)
A coloured version of comic strip, made by Anastasia Majzhegisheva for the 7th anniversary of Morevna Project. Captioned with translations. ^__^
Managing animation projects with RenderChan
Our friends from Girin Studio are starting their own open-source animated movie called “ZeMarmot”. Right now they are running a crowdfunding campaign (it’s just 5 days left!) and they already released a teaser together with all its sources (as I found from this article). We
Morevna Project turns 7
Hello, everyone, guess what day today is? Today is an anniversary of Morevna Project! Hard to believe – it’s 7 years passed by since I wrote a first post on this blog! Many awesome things happened, many changes and many things still ahead. Personally for
Skeleton Template (with IK)
We are publishing a modification of original Stickman template, with a special configuration simulating inverse kinematics (IK) for legs. Download It can be used as a standalone template or a Synfig Plugin. You can read more about Synfig plugins here. The license is CC Zero
Needle Artifact concept
This is a concept of Needle Artifact made by Nikolai Mamashev. The Needle Artifact is an important item of our story – iIt is responsible for connection of Morevna with Koschei and makes it possible to use his powers. Use with caution!
Custom switch controllers in Synfig
In our character template we have a custom widget to switch mouth heads and hands. This is very helpful for animation process. Several people asked me asked how to setup those custom widgets for their own animations, so I have created a small video tutorial
Color concept painting timelapse
Anastasia Majzhegisheva recorded one more video demonstrating the process of her work on color concept in Krita. Enjoy!
Keyframes painting timelapse
Anastasia Majzhegisheva is working hard on artwork for the upcoming episode. We have managed to capture some bits of her work!
Morevna’s Castle Concept
Anastasia Majzhegisheva made a concept artwork of Morevna’s castle, which we will use for the very first scene of current episode. She took an original quick draft made by Nikolai Mamashev and created the detailed version. Below you can see the result. She also recorded