Sources! Sources! Sources!

Sources of The Adventures of Boris Munchausen are available at GitHub now!

Browse and download sources

Notice, that to build them you need the latest version of Remake – don’t hesitate to get the development git sources. I have provided brief instructions in the README file. Detailed instructions will follow soon.

We giving out all the sources, now it’s you to decide what to do with them. Here’s a few ideas/hints:

• Add some cool special FX, like focus blur, motion blur, glows and flares (it’s easy to do with Synfig!)
• Create alternative soundtrack in your native language
• Trace artwork to vector
• Paint a random picture and put it on the wall at shot #220
• Use the characters to create your own story

Have your own idea? Add it to the list here and inspire others!

Sources are provided under the Creative Commons License and you are free to modify, reuse, distribute and do other awesome things. See full license here. Notice, that all visual sources (artwork & animation) are licensed as CC BY, while some soundtrack music have CC BY-SA license. Thus, the final compilation (as a movie file) should be licensed as CC BY-SA.

What else can I say? Go ahead, rip it apart, people!

Your Expectations

The Story Structure

If you wondering about the amount of episodes planned in the story, here’s a little clarification. Initially screenplay was wrote as a solid composition. But  later we have decided to split it into the following episodes:

• The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 1.0: Gathering (released)
• The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 2.0: Challenge
• The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 3.0: Friendship

Each episode could also have a set “subreleases”, introducing the improvements in the quality of art, animation or even the story flow.  I.e. we may have 1.01,  1.02, 1.11 for first episode, 2.01, 2.02, 2.11 for second episode, and so on. The change in the minor number approximately reflects the amount of changes made.

Version 1.0 Released

Since October 2010 eight kids spent 8 months working on their first animated short. During that period I was teaching them animation with open-source tools and directing their work. Each kid attended the classes 2 times a week and each class was 2 hours long. Now we are happy to present result of their work: The Adventures of Boris Munchausen 1.0.

• Watch on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/25579076
• Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX1Oq2_KE00
• Download: http://www.archive.org/details/TheAdventuresOfBorisMunchausen

NOTE: We plan to publish full sources of this animated short very soon. Stay tuned!

EDIT: The sources are published at GitHub now.

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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.