Screenplay translation
I am happy to announce that we have just completed the first draft of our screenplay translation. Of course there’s still a lot of work on dialog, format, and style, but at least it’s already readable for English-speaking audiences. For those who are not afraid
Production Cuts
As you remember, Morevna Project was going to be promoted at Anime Boston 2010 by Ubuntu Massachusets Local Community Team. We have decided not to go with the usual demo snapshot and prepared a special video with production cuts. Now event is over and we
Anime Boston 2010
The Ubuntu Massachusets Local Community Team is making an ambitious effort to bring anime fans to the world of Open Source at the Anime Boston 2010 convention. At their booth in the dealers’ room they plan to hand out Ubuntu LiveCDs and copies of the
Synfig Studio packages update
It’s been a long time since Synfig Studio 0.62.00 came out. But because of our absence this significant event didn’t get mentioned here. It’s time to “redress an injustice”. We’re on 0.62.00 now. The packages page is updated. Major reasons to upgrade: Hey, it’s release!
Rebirth
As some of you may know, four months ago Morevna Project was suspended because of personal issues. Now I’m happy to inform everyone that we are back on track. Stay tuned! Punk not dead! Etc, etc…
Shot 20: SlowMo effect
Some time ago we have described TimeControl technique which allows to fine-tune animation timing without quality loss, and now we have applied that technique to shot 20 to get SlowMo effect. Download ogg-video: slowmo.ogv. You can examine animation sources here. Animation have complex structure and
Stickman Template Update
Morevna Project is proudly presents an update of Stickman Template. Stickman Template is used for character animation. It tends to simplify setup when you want to make animation in cutout technique or something more complex. Changes: New version includes dummy regions to quickly navigate through
Synfig Studio packages update
Synfig Studio packages have been updated. Please grab them from the packages page. Major reasons to upgrade: Reverse manipulation for scale convert type Improved UI Keyframes are now displayed in Curves panel Keyfames are now draggable Tablet settings are remembered CPH monitor to collect statistics
Pencil packages
Pencil is a open-source software for making traditional (frame-by-frame) animation. Now we packaging Pencil too, because we using it intensively for producing animation sketches (animatics). for RPM-based distributions (Fedora, Red Hat, Mandriva, etc.): 32bit: pencil-0.4.4b-54.morevna.1.i386.rpm 64bit: pencil-0.4.4b-54.morevna.1.x86_64.rpm for Debian-based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.): 32bit: pencil_0.4.4b-54.morevna.1_i386.deb
What’s up?
You may notice decreasing of post count here lately. No, we’re not dead – just busy working on the project! Lots of news and unfortunately completely no time to write about.
Happy Birthday
One year passed by since morevnaproject.org was born… It was a really good year. Many things happened. Amazing things. Yes, the project is far from completion… but you still here, our dear reader, and that means what your hope for us is not lost. Thank