The 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:
- 2D animation: Synfig Studio.
- 3D modeling and animation: Blender.
- Static images: GIMP, Krita.
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/] —
Finally, something to look forward to for Synfig. This is just what was needed!
*hops over to see if he can help*
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
irowebot: go to their site, click on “about” link on the menu right.. information is there.
.b
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.
Russian Open Source Animé! Nice!
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?
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/
sry! thank you Tim Formica for adding my post! lol
but thanks to Bart, too, for all he does!
Interesting they don’t use inkscape
Inkscape cannot vector animate. (as far as I know – perhaps with some scripts/a plugin?)
-b
http://minosafilms.wordpress.com
Well, i’m sure Inkscape can be used around in many places just to have it’s name on the software list :P
Have you ever tried using prince squash strings?