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Rendering!

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) The project files are sent to final rendering! Now all we have to do is wait. (Sorry for photo quality, I don’t have anything better at the moment. And yes, I have to connect it to some AC

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Film Poster

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) It’s two days left before the release and we finally have a poster now! Please help us spread a word about the online premiere and screening event at FSCONS! Join us at Facebook and Google+ to help get

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Banner for our vectorization call, made in 2012
Demo

Interview with vectorization competition winner

I know it’s much time passed by, but I hope you remember Vectorization Competition  that we held at Morevna Project from June to September. We have announced the results and the absolute winner – Jcome, but in fact that wasn’t the end of the story.

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Weekly progress

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Ok, here are some quick and hot news from the past week. Nikolay successfully finished overpaints for the last backgrounds. Now we have all backgrounds completely finished. Also, he took a chance to redraw some keyframes that we

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No more white gaps

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Last week an important milestone was reached – we have managed to close all white gaps in the Demo. That’s it, all backgrounds are in place now. Though, some of background images are still pending for overpaint. There

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Weekly progress

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) As I was mentioned in my previous post, on 10th of October we have successfully assembled the first draft version of Morevna Project Demo. “Draft version” means that we have all key elements in place and it’s supposed

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See you in Sweden

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Let me start with some good news. Last week I have received a subsidy from Russian government for my trip to give a talk at Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) at Göteborg, Sweden. Much thanks to

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Weekly progress

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) It’s the 1st of October and it’s hard to tell which stage we are now on – because we are still finishing backgrounds, making 3D, putting it all together and polishing it all at the same time. In

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Weekly progress

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Today I’ll try to be short as the time is not waiting. All week we’re working hard on backgrounds. I am preparing all 3D stuff and Nikolay does overpaint.  The process of mixing of overpainted backgrounds into final

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Freestyle-enabled packages of Blender

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) We are happy to announce that the new Freestyle-enabled packages of Blender are available for download now. Please note, that those packages are not exactly Blender 2.63, but much more like 2.64 RC1 (with FFMPEG and Freestyle features).

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We did it!

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Can you believe it? Last week we have finished the “Vectorization and Tweening” stage and now we are officially working on “Backgrounds and 3D”! Hurray! The most hard stage was “Drawing Keyframes”, but “Vectorization and Tweening” was the

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Almost there

( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) OK, we’re one step from finishing “Vectorization and Tweening” stage. There are just two shots pending for my review and a few soldiers to vectorize, which in fact are background characters. Be sure – we’re squeezing most of

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