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Morevna Project Wallpaper #3 (1920x1080)
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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!

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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,

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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

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Keyframes finished, plans for the future

OK, I’m back from LGM and happy to announce that we have all keyframes for the Demo finished! Yes, that’s it, the hardest phase is over! *clap* *clap* *clap*  ^___^ Some statistics: In 62 days Nikolay made 154 keyframe images. It took 343 workhours for

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Weekly progress

It’s the last days of keyframes drawing campaign and this week was especially interesting, because besides of usual drawing of Ivan and Morevna Nikolay was working on the shots where we have many new characters. They all are appear in the Demo only once or

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Weekly Progress

Again, I will be short. Our keyframes drawing phase is coming to an end – there’s only 9 days left. Still a lot to do, but it’s almost finished. To be honest I already can’t wait to put all those images into Synfig and see

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Message to our sponsors

Dear sponsors! Everyone who donated $40 or more, please take your time to look at the credits page to ensure that your name is spelled correctly. If you find a mistake please contact us. Thank you very much for your support!

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Weekly progress

I will not write much today. It’s only two weeks left before deadline, so we are in hurry to finish all keyframes to the date. This week was a very productive, BTW. ^__^ Stay tuned! Latest Images

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Making headturn guides in Synfig

Some folks say that my previous video (the one about creating headturn guides) was too fast. And that making it’s hard to figure out what’s going on. So here I posting another screencast without timelapse.

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Cheating

Today I want to talk a little about the ways we cheat at drawing. ^__^ When you start drawing a characters you usually have “front” and “side” concept reference images. And when you need 3/4 view at some gradation it’s always a bit tricky part.

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Weekly progress

OK, I hope everyone had a great 1st of April day. And I hope you enjoyed our little joke. I want to assure everyone who cares about the project – we don’t plan to turn everything into “Nazar Style”. Though, the funniest part of this

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Meet Nazar The Brave

I guess you have tired to see a boring production sheets in my every weekly blog post, so this time we have prepared something special. Those who read the screenplay might remember that Marya Morevna have a brother – Nazar The Brave. He is also

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