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Morevna sketches
Some sketches of Morevna by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva.
Video: The Big Morevna Sketchbook
Anastasia Mayzhegisheva demonstrates her Big Morevna Sketchbook.Also, in the video you can see how our studio looks like right now.
Sparrow Character
Anastasia Mayzhegisheva develops Sparrow character.
Shot 115-2 shaded
Anastasia finished shading for shot 115-2! Next stage is coloring.
Morevna
Original sketch by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva
More lineart from Sasha Zhbanova
Sasha is still learning at school, so her time is limited. Though, all her free time she dedicates to drawing and is happy to participate in our project. I hope she will continue contributing this summer.
Shot 179-3 - final lineart
When Sasha finishes lineart work, it usually goes back to our lead artist Anastasia for doing necessary corrections.Here you can see lineart from previous post after Anastasia worked on it.
Mechanic-sister (color)
Original sketch by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva.
More contributions from Sasha Zhbanova
Here is one more lineart work from Sasha.This animation is based on draft by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva (below).Both animations made in Krita.
A quick update about results of my trip [*]
A quick followup to my travel report:In collaboration with “SoyuzMultFilm” animation studio we have finished first version of “The Big Picture concept” document for Skolkovo Foundation. The concept involves development and promotion activities for OpenToonz, RenderChan, Synfig and Blender. Now we’re sending the document to foundation representatives for first review.This work collaboration is a consequence of my travel initiative that took place in March 2018. Much thanks to everyone who made this travel possible!
Shot 115-2 animation cleanup
By Anastasia Mayzhegisheva and Sasha Zhbanova.Made in Krita.
Sasha Zhbanova joins Morevna Project
Sasha is a young and talented student of our animation workshops, you can see some of her works here. Several days ago she decided to contribute to our project. She took a draft sketch by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva and made it into a clean line artwork. You can see the result above.Right now Sasha is working on several more artworks for other shots.
Morevna Traditional Kimono (sketch)
Artwork by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva. Licensed under CC-BY 4.0. Painted in Krita.
Krita Assistants in OpenToonz - Second demonstration
This is a demonstration of Assistants feature implemented in OpenToonz by our developer Ivan Mahonin. At the moment of recording this feature is still a "work-in-progress", but is close to finish.Much thanks to everyone who supported development of Assistants feature through this bounty - https://www.bountysource.com/issues/47719781-krita-like-assistant-tool-for-opentoonz
Synfig got a Patreon page! [*]
We have set up a dedicated Patreon page for Synfig! The donations collected through this page will allow us to keep our new hired developer Artem Konoplin to keep working on Synfig continuously.Please check it out here - https://www.patreon.com/synfigIMPORTANT NOTE FOR OUR PATRONS: If Synfig is your primary and only reason for supporting Morevna Project, then please consider to transfer your pledge to Synfig's dedicated page. Thank you!
Rethinking strategy for posting updates [*]
You probably noticed that last two weeks the way we post updates on Patreon got changed - now they are smaller and more frequent. This is result of ongoing re-thinking of structure of our project. And in this particular case - our infrastructure for delivering updates.So, what it's all about?1. We have official blog at Morevna website.2. We have Patreon's posts stream.Both of those channels are intended to post updates. Both of those channels have an option to deliver updates to your mailbox.For quite a while those communication channel...
Synfig Studio 1.3.7 Released
We are happy to announce that the new development version of Synfig Studio is available for download! This version delivers a set of fixes made by our new hired developer Artem Konoplin.Read details...
Working on concept of Guy-In-Black
Anastasia is working on concept of Guy-In-Black character.
Ivan head-turn reference
Ivan head-turn reference made by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva in #Krita.
Krita Assistants in OpenToonz: First demonstration
This is a first demonstration of Assistants feature implemented in OpenToonz by our developer Ivan Mahonin (aka blackwarthog). At the moment of recording this feature is still a "work-in-progress".
Synfig Development Report #51
Since the middle March of 2018 we have hired a new developer – Artem Konoplin (known as “ice0” on GitHub). His initial mission is to fix bugs and improve stability of current feature set of Synfig. Though, as usual, things gone beyond of that...Continue reading...
Concept of Ivan updated
Hello! Anastasia on line again! (ง ื▿ ื)วI have finished an updated version of Ivan’s concept, which is replacing the old one. Also, I have recorded the process of working on it. I plan to publish the timelapse video soon!
Ivan concept sketch
Hello! This is Anastasia! o(≧▽≦)o I am working on updated concept of Ivan and this is my first sketch.
Mechanic artwork
Mechanic artwork by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva.
Koschei The Deathless (3D model) [*]
This is a Blender 3D model of Koschei The Deathless. You can download and re-use this model for free under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Hint: just click the link below and enter “0” (zero) into the “Price” field to download for free.DownloadKoschei The Deathless3D Blender modelThis model is created by Nikolai Mamashev as part of his work on Morevna Episode 4, which was funded through our crowdfunding campaign. Much thanks to everyone who contributed and made his work possible!
Liubov' (Love) - sketch
Caption: "Hate kills Love".
Production Report #20
https://morevnaproject.org/2018/05/02/production-report-20/
Shot 115-2
Draft of shot 115-2. Made in #Krita. ヽ(・∀・)ノ
Poll: Why are you supporting us on Patreon?
I do not know how much that visible from outside, but our project is in the middle of intensive growing. In such periods I am feel increasing responsibility on taking decisions, defining strategies and setting priorities.So, I think this is a good time to ask an important question: why are you supporting Morevna Project on Patreon?Please choose one, the most relevant answer. Choose many if they are really equal for you.I appreciate your answers before May 5th. ^__^
Morevna Episode 4 snapshot (2018-03-11)
Production snapshot of upcoming Morevna Episode 4, that we demonstrated in March at MorevnaCon.









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