Morevna Project progress, project problems...
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.