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[*] Mention in the credits for Morevna Episode 4

Just got together all names in "Sponsored by" section for final credits of Morevna Episode 4. Here you can see mentions of all sponsors who supported our crowdfunding campaignby claiming "Name in the credits reward". Also, I couldn't resist to mention our top patron Jared Sloane, who is providing massive support to our project through the past 2 years.P.S. Same section for the Russian version of the credits:

Reference sketches: Ivan

Reference sketches of Ivan character (by Anastasia Mayzhegisheva).

Koschei Model

Nikolai is finished with modeling mesh of Koschei. We will publish it for free download soon!

RenderChan Roadmap

We have started preparations for releasing stable version of RenderChan and with that I am happy to share a roadmap for its further development. Check it out here.

“Cut-out animation in Blender” course now available via “pay-what-you-want”

https://morevnaproject.org/2018/04/20/cut-out-animation-in-blender-now-available-as-pay-what-you-want/

New artwork: Pilat

Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project).License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.Software: Krita

Character: Liubov' (sketch)

Travel report appendix

In recent travel report I forgot to mention that in the last days of our trip we also visited two other animation studios.Read details...

SuzdalFest / Moscow: Travel report

Do you remember post about my initiative to give a public talk about free software at SuzdalFest? It's time to give some report about results!Read report...

Car of Ivan Tsarevich (3D model)

Car of Ivan Tsarevich (3D Blender model) is now available for download! It is completely rigged and ready for use. You can download it for free and use under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.Download Blender 3D model of Ivan’s carThis is a 3D model of car for the main hero of Morevna series – Ivan Tsarevich. It is created by Nikolai Mamashev as part of his work on Morevna Episode 4, which is funded through our crowdfunding campaign. Much thanks to everyone who contributed and made his work possible!

Russian president and animation: What happened in May 2017?

Here goes quite unusual post...TL;DR: Russian government is going to provide ~$2 000 000 to support development of animation software in Russia and our efforts to redirects those funds into open-source development.Read full post...

New developer will join Synfig development since March 2018

Big news: I have made an agreement with a new developer to join our team for developing Synfig open-source animation software. Artyom Konoplin will join us in March as a second hired developer to work on most critical and highly-demanded bugs of Synfig.Read full post...

Pepper & Carrot will be screened at SuzdalFest

https://morevnaproject.org/2018/02/27/pepper-carrot-will-screened-suzdalfest/

Screenshots of Ivan’s car model

We have published some working screenshots of Ivan’s car model, that is created by Nikolai Mamashev for Morevna Episode 4. It is almost ready and will be published for free download soon!View screenshots...

Synfig Studio 1.3.6 released!

We have released a new development version of Synfig Studio, which is introduces a new powerful feature for easy creating of reflections and shadows.Read details...

Draft model of Ivan's car is available for download

Nikolai Mamashev have finished the modeling routines for Ivan's car and today we are happy to publish results of his work for free download!This model is created in Blender and is still work-in-progress. The final version will be fully textured and will include a simple rig - this is what Nikolai is working right now. As soon as it will be finished we will publish the complete model for free download as well.Until then, you can download the current draft model - just click the button below and enter "0" (zero) into the "Price&#3...

New tutorial: Artwork vectorization with bones

Some people ask us – how to use the features illustrated in our Stickman tutorials with the latest version of Synfig?The thing is that Stickman is an old technology, developed by us to emulate bones features in old versions of Synfig. Since version 1.0 Synfig have native bones feature and this makes Stickman deprecated.Here I have made a quick video, which shows how our old Stickman vectorization technique can be done with native bones.

Homepage redesign

The Morevna Project website got a new homepage! This task was a long due and I am happy to get it finally done. Now our home page is more informative and gives a better idea what our project is about.Check it out here - https://morevnaproject.org/

New artwork: Eleanora

Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project).License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.Software: Krita✿ Download source file ✿

Production Report #18: First results of Nikolai’s work

Our lead artist Anastasia Mayzhegisheva wrote her first production report. It is about first results of Nikolai's work and some other news. Check it out!Read production report #18

Car concept draft

First results from Nikolai Mamashev, who have joined us just a few days ago. Stay tuned for more images in upcoming production report!

New artwork: Inner Light

Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project).License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.Download source file

New artwork: Eleanora

This is a sister of Ivan, she's a priestess, her name is Eleanora. In short - Elya (*°▽°*) Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva (Morevna Project).License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.Download source file

OpenToonz (Morevna Edition) version 1.2.0.2

We've just released a small but important update for OpenToonz Morevna Edition. This version delivers fixes for two critical issues: Fix incorrect behavior of graphic tablets. The incorrect behavior was reported by many Windows an Linux users and this turned to be related with latest changes to the tablet code. Since this part of code requires some additional work and testing, we have reverted the tablet code to the status of version 1.1.3.x for now. Fix insensitive alpha parameter in Style Editor. In previous version we've got a bug wh...

Happy New Year, dear Patrons!

Morevna Production Report #17

Hey, it is an end of the month and new year is right around the corner. So it is the good time for just another production report!Continue reading...

Synfig Studio 1.3.5 released

I am happy to announce that we have released new development version of Synfig Studio! This version delivers some new features for rendering engine, as well as set of critical fixes.The main highlight of this update is an improved compact UI layout and possibility to use several rendering modes for faster workarea updates (Draft Mode and LowRes Mode). Please check full post the detailed description and full list of changes.Read full post...

Automated tweening in OpenToonz (guided drawing)

One more quick tutorial about automatic tweening in OpenToonz.

OpenToonz Morevna Edition version 1.2.0.1

I am happy to announce that the new version of OpenToonz (Morevna Edition) is available for download now!This version is based on official OpenToonz 1.2.0, which was released a one week. The official version now includes our MyPaint brushes feature, so this time (in addition to full set of features of official version) we deliver another addition developed by our team – Advanced Color Selector.And of course with Morevna Edition you get a full range of installation packages for all popular operating systems, including Windows 32bit and Linux. ...

How to create a sequence of empty frames in OpenToonz

Quick mini-tutorial! New users of OpenToonz often ask - how to add a sequence of empty frames? This is a sort of operation that is tricky to figure out, so here is a step-by-step recipe: Create a new level (if you haven't yet) Make sure you have Level Strip panel visible. If not - choose "Windows" -> "Level Strip" from menu. In the Level Strip panel right-click the last frame and choose "Add Frames..." Set the correct numbers for "From" and "To" fields. If you clicked on frame 10 and want to add 5 fra...