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Marya Morevna

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”

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Baba Yaga

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.

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RenderChan

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

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News

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

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Synfig

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

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Episode 3

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!

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Synfig

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

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Morevna's Castle. Concept artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva.
Episode 3

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

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