Visit to the Minotaur

25 August, 2008
 
Dmitry Voloshin, director and producer

Have you ever been called by a heaven being?
Let us suppose, you are young producer and suddenly your phone is ringing. You pick it up, and hear “Hello, this is Guy Ritchie calling”. Or for example, you are a young ballerina and suddenly “Hello, this is Plesetskaia. I like how you dance. ”. Or, let us suppose that are a young hacker and suddenly Kevin Mitnik is calling you…

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Horses without coats. As they are.

20 August, 2008
 
Serdar Jumaev, painter

Before the work started nobody thought that a horse could be such a tough character, and that the work on it can drag on so much. One would think: what is so tough about that? You should just go and draw a horse.

horse

 

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Skinning and Rigging. Odd…

16 August, 2008
 
Andrei Orehov, animator

After our character was modeled and textured the time has come to make him move. With this purpose we have to put a skeleton into our model. The skeleton is created with the help of bones. They simulate the behavior of real bones, i.e. rotate around the hinges (joints). In different packages they have different names: in Maya package they are called joints.

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One more step towards reality – texturing

13 August, 2008
 
Sergey Kirillov, project manager, visualizer

When a model of a character is ready we can start texturing it. Texture – is an image laid over the surface of 3D model in order to add surface finish, color or relief to it.

 

 

 

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Sketch art

08 August, 2008
 
Anatolii Smishlyev, painter

At the same time we are working on the environment; we are trying different styles(approaches) in order to give life to the animation

 

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The Gypsy’s wagon

05 August, 2008
 
Serdar Jumaev, painter

The Gypsy’s wagon is one of the important characters of our cartoon that is why we gave special priority to it.

 

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Dot, dot, comma, dash

01 August, 2008
 
Dmitry Voloshin, director and producer

Storyboard is the sequence of drawings, serving as an object lesson of the future cartoon, so to say its paper version. It helps the director to plan the scenes of the future movie or clip to the last detail beforehand.

 

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Gypsy -

3D cartoon about a joyous story of gypsies life and the laws of being.We decised to show you, how the three-dimensional cartoons are made from the begining to the end.
Ass well you can take part and appear in the credits of the cartoon

Investors

If you like the project "Gypsy" and want to collaborate with us, send your ideas to investor@simpals.md

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