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Morevna Project progress, project problems...
The Morevna Project seeks to
create a full-length anime movie using open source software. The Morevna
project blog has a status
report after three years of development. "First of all, we
weren't sure if the software we have chose is able to handle the tasks that
we need. For Blender (for 3D works) everything was quite clear — that
tool is stable enough and already proven with a series of Blender
Foundation's open movie projects... But 3D in Morevna Project handles just
a helper function — Morevna is mostly about 2D animation! And the all
burden here comes to Synfig Studio, which is completely different case!
Without any usage cases of such scale, questional stability, totally
undeveloped character animation techniques... There were few examples of
characters animation, but we wanted the complex motion. This most powerful
open-source animation tool still had a lots of issues. We just weren't
sure if this tool will be able to handle all the tasks (OK, well... in terms
of faith we were sure, but have no idea how)." (Thanks to Paul
Wise) LWN looked at the project in March 2010.
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Synfig 0.63 Posted May 31, 2011 23:09 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
Synfig 0.63 should be out in the near future. The final release candidate appeared on May 22nd:
http://synfig.org/cms/en/news/synfig-studio-0-63-00-rc3-l...
The synfig package in Debian's repositories has been orphaned but there's a .deb on synfig's download page (but I haven't tried it yet).
There're no big features I'm waiting to try, but all stability improvements are welcome and there've been small but nice improvements to the interface over the past few releases.
Synfig 0.63 Posted Jun 1, 2011 3:09 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
By orphaned, you must mean removed:
http://bugs.debian.org/612070
It is only available in lenny and squeeze, not wheezy/sid, needs someone to work on getting it back into Debian. The multimedia team would probably be helpful there.
Synfig 0.63 Posted Jun 1, 2011 11:08 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
For anyone wanting to use synfig on Sid, here's what I use:
http://snapshot.debian.org/package/synfig/0.62.00-2/
It would be great if it got put back in, but I'm not in a position to offer any help for the moment :-/
Synfig 0.63 Posted Jun 1, 2011 14:01 UTC (Wed) by przemoc (subscriber, #67594) [Link]
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/synfig/0.62.00-2/
Somehow I didn't know about snapshot.debian.org... Thank you for mentioning it!
Synfig 0.63 Posted Jun 6, 2011 6:35 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]
Synfig 0.63 has been released now:
http://synfig.org/cms/en/news/releases/synfig-studio-0-63...
Some interesting enhancements, especially the cairoification will be great once it is complete.
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