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
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).
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
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
Deadlines, deadlines…
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) This weekly report I will start from an announcement that as of September 1st our vectorization “competition” is over. And here’s the final results: Jcome: 26 LoboZamora: 17 Pixelgeek: 4 Animtim: 3 It’s obvious that absolute leader in
Weekly progress
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Hello, my dear reader! It’s only a few days left before the 1st of September, which is not only the Knowledge Day (in Russia), but also is a deadline for our “Vectorization and Tweening” stage. We are working
Weekly progress
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Do you hear the ground trembling? Yes, the release date of the Demo is approaching. The critical mass have been reached and we suddenly made significant a break through. Can you believe? For main characters it’s less than
Ivan and Morevna models – Community call results
OK, people, today we are ready to announce the results of our community call for Ivan and Morevna models. One month passed by since we published the call and during that period many artists worked to create the models of the two main characters. It
Weekly progress
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) What can I say about the last week? Well, we still have a lot of fun with vectorization! The production sheet is slowly clearing up and the amount of white spaces on it is not that depressing anymore.
Demo release date
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) It’s time for an official announcement. The Morevna Project Demo will be released on November 10th, 2012. The release event, as well as the first public screening will take place at Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (Göteborg,
Using colorcharts in Synfig
Here’s a little video I have prepared on how we do coloring using colorcharts in Synfig. The colorcharts is very cool feature for animation projects – you have all key colors defined in one file and when you change this file, all colors are changed
Weekly progress
( читать по-русски | Russian translation ) Last week was extremely productive – we have finished a few complex shots. Although I still do some vectorization, my main task is to stitch vectorized keyframes together and tween them. Working with such complex shots with a