The Adventures of Boris Munchausen is an animated short created by the group of Russian kids under direction of open-source animation activist Konstantin Dmitriev.
The animation was created with a purpose to demonstrate what young generation can do with open-source tools utilizing the technologies developed by Morevna Project. In 2011 the animation was translated into English and released to the public together with its sources under Creative Commons BY-SA license.
Right at the moment we rushing to finish the new episode of The Adventures of Boris Munchausen. We were so busy this year, so we haven’t even had time to publish the storyboard. Today I want to close that gap – here it is! (be warned: spoilers inside!)
Download storyboard-ova3-ru.pdf
Enjoy and stay tuned – the release is coming soon.
We are happy to release another edition for the first episode of Munchausen series. This version have some minor fixes and updates, targeted to bring the general experience into the consistency with the second episode.
But that’s not all! For the first time we are releasing the new version in two languages – English and Russian. Thanks to Alpha3 Recording studio and Richard Paul Wade for making an English dub. We hope you like it.
On July 5th ”The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 2.0″ was screened at IX Open All-Russian Festival of children animation “FireBird” and got awarded by two diplomas:
- The Сouncil of Young Apprentices Award (kids of 8-15 voted in the “FireBird” program)
- The Prizewinner Award (festival participants voted, choosing 10 best films from the “FireBird” program)
Congratulations!
We are happy to release episode 2.0 of The Adventures of Boris Munchausen – fully subtitled into English! Special thanks to Julia Velkova for translation and subtitling.
We are happy to announce release of The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 2.0. This is a second episode of the trilogy, codename “Challenge”.
English subtitles coming soon. Sources estimated to be published in June 2012 (we need to do a LOT of cleanup and arrangements ^_^” ).
Thanks to efforts of Julia Velkova the storyboard of upcoming second episode is translated into English now!
Enjoy!
Ok, after my previous post you probably believe that we are really exist and we really do working. To strengthen (or completely ruin?) your faith even more we are publishing development snapshot of second episode. This is a preview with draft voicing, no music and sound fx – of course this is a very early preview and it’s a sad look yet. But for the brave ones who are curious about the project status and not afraid of spoilers this might be interesting. Cheers!
You might be wondering why there is so few updates last time. The answer is simple – we are busy working hard on the project.
Today we want to introduce an opportunity to watch us working at the project in the studio via live webcam! So, here’s the announcement:
WE ARE BROADCASTING LIVE
every Monday and Friday
starting from 10:00 till 11:00 UTC
Watch us live here
(you can view broadcast archives when we are offline)
I don’t know how much it will be interesting for non-Russian speaking audience, but at least this is a good proof that we are real. ^_^
Saladin – the main antagonist of Munchausen series – turned to be the most difficult and discussed character for us. Here we would like to share all the different concept versions of his image:
…And here’s the final concept:
