Community Call: Soldiers models
2012-09-20 EDIT: The call is closed. See details 2012-08-20 / EDIT: The deadline is extended until the September 20th! Hey, everyone! There was so much response about our previous call, so we decided that it will be bad to waste your attention just
Community Call: 3D models of Ivan and Morevna
EDIT: The call is closed. Thank you everyone who participated! See details Attention, Blender artists! We are looking for volunteer Blender modeller who can make a 3D models of our two main characters – Ivan and Morevna. The models are going to be used
Back from festival
Last week I have spent 5 days attending the festival of children’s animation “FireBird” in Novosibirsk. We had a screening of the work done by kids under my direction and got some awards. One of the important festival events was a meeting with Plenipotentiary Presidential
Weekly progress
OK, as I promised, today we delivering you new development build of Synfig studio with some new features. The changes are: Disabling keyframes. Now you can make any keyframe inactive, which means it will not influence any waypoints and not produce new ones. Disabled keyframes
Weekly progress
This week wasn’t very productive. Nikolay was mostly busy on other things, so you will not see new vectorization results. Though, we have managed to make some really neat improvements. First of all, we have made some significant impact on shot 06. I was a
Introduction to Remake
Finally I’ve got the video with my talk about Remake at LGM! Unfortunately the screen wasn’t recorded, so initially there was only my talking head there. But I’ve tried to reproduce everything what was happening at the screen during the presentation and combined with video.
Weekly progress
As we are back on track now, I’m going to continue tradition with the weekly reports (like we did during the previous phase). At least I will try. ^__^ Just like before, we made a special list to track our progress: In this case there
Plugins feature in Synfig Studio
We was so excited by our stickman merge tool, that we decided to integrate this feature directly into Synfig Studio. As result, we have made some trivial plugin system that allows to run python scripts for current document right from Synfig menu. Very simple, but
Stickman Merge Tool
If you examine our sources, you may notice that when we work on character animation, we usually place every character in separate Synfig file. This approach have certain advantages. For example, it becomes possible to have several people working on the same shot at once.
What does “vectorization” mean?
To celebrate the beginning of new stage we are updating our website theme. And yes, this is a perfect illustration of what does “vectorization” word mean. ^__^ And finally – here’s another quick wallpaper for you! Enjoy!
Some thoughts on releasing and distribution
I know it’s a little bit early for that, but people often ask me if and how are we going to publish results of Morevna Project (besides putting them online for downloading). Not much time ago my answer was a bit fuzzy – of course,
Happy Birthday! And more…
Hello, everybody! Have you miss us? ^__^ Today is 30th of May and it’s fourth birthday of Morevna Project! Yay! One year ago I have published quite depressing report where I was ranting about situation in the project. Now, horizons are clearing, lots of things