The Morevna Project

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Morevna Project

Morevna Project

submitted by Banor:

The Morevna Project is a very promising open source anime film being made with Synfig, Blender, GIMP, and Krita.  I have been following this project loosely recently, and am very interested in contributing.

They are currently working towards a project demo that will showcase a 3 minute preview of the final product.  Character design for 6 soldiers is needed at this time.

From their website:

The main goal of Morevna Project is creation of full-lengthened anime movie, utilizing Open Source software only.

Other goals:

  • Promotion of Open Source software and its ideology.
  • Testing and improving existing Open Source products by giving appropriated feedback to developers and community.
  • Validate Open Source tools as suitable for creation of professional good-looking animation.
  • Provide content for other artists to learn from or to re-use, including documentation and tutorials

Main production tools:

And oh, don’t forget, they need help!

We are looking for creative people to help our project:

  • Characters designers (drawing in anime style required).
  • Keyframe animators (making extreme key drawings of characters/objects operating in scene, drawing in anime style required).
  • Inbetweeners (making smooth animation based on drawn keyframes with Synfig Studio).
  • Background painters.
  • 3D designers (knowledge of blender required).

If you are not good at drawing, animation or 3D modeling you still can participate in project! You can support us in following ways:

  • Translation of project documentation from Rusian into English. Even if you don’t know Russian but know English very well you can help the project by correcting our existing translations.
  • If you are good at C/C++ programming we appreciate if you help with the development of Synfig Studio or contirbute to Synfig project in any other way.
  • Just give us your feedback or constructive critique. :)

I am looking forward to it’s completion!  It looks to be a very promising film.

Check out the website now:
See the project forum:

— submitted by Banor [http://minosafilms.wordpress.com/] —

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    • Scio

      Finally, something to look forward to for Synfig. This is just what was needed!

      *hops over to see if he can help*

    • irowebot

      Were do i sign up?? I can totally be a part time volunteer, heck put me on crate modeling duty i don’t care.

      irowebot

    • http://www.kulma.org basse

      irowebot: go to their site, click on “about” link on the menu right.. information is there.

      .b

    • http://nicknamfx.blogspot.com Nicknamz

      i like the enthusiasm of open source comunity, that project gonna help to add some goddies to synfig i hope, like happen with blender :D, good news.

    • http://yogyog.org yogyog

      Russian Open Source Animé! Nice!

    • http://darsam.spaces.live.com DramaKing

      They seem to have some very high goals. I hope that they accomplish they’re able to finsih it. If they do, maybe we’ll see another Plumiferos?

    • banor

      Yes! Praise God… wow. First article submitted. ;) Thanks so much, Bart! It means a lot to actually get something on BlenderNation.

      Hoping to contribute to the Morevna Project…

      !!!! ;)

      -b
      http://minosafilms.wordpress.com/
      http://artislight.deviantART.com/

    • banor

      sry! thank you Tim Formica for adding my post! lol

    • banor

      but thanks to Bart, too, for all he does!

    • shul

      Interesting they don’t use inkscape

    • banor

      Inkscape cannot vector animate. (as far as I know – perhaps with some scripts/a plugin?)

      -b
      http://minosafilms.wordpress.com

    • http://www.DreadKnight666.com Dread Knight

      Well, i’m sure Inkscape can be used around in many places just to have it’s name on the software list :P

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