About Anime Software Tutorials Library News Latest News Toonz goes open-source? Toonz goes open-source? Posted on March 19, 2016 by Konstantin Dmitriev March 19, 2016 Production Report #12 March 16, 2016 Marya Morevna Artwork March 13, 2016 Creating lipsync with Synfig Studio and Papagayo March 7, 2016 Dynamic light test in Synfig February 17, 2016 Production Report #11 February 14, 2016 This one made me check that it isn’t 1st of April today. No, it’s obviously not. So, Support Morevna Project here’s how it is: Toonz animation software is announced to be released as open- source! 0 Toonz is a 2D animation software developed by Digital Video S.p.A., used in production by Studio Ghibli (Japan) and Melnitsa Animation (Russia). Archives The decision to release Toonz as open-source born as result of agreement between Select Month Digital Video (original developer of Toonz) and Japanese publisher Dwango (which is going to held open-source developement). The free version is promised to Quick updates: StatusHub @ become available for download on March 26th, entitled as “OpenToonz”. MorevnaProject.org Neural Morevna 2 Read official announcement Neural Morevna 1 Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva: 2016-03-10-M-I Official release procedure and demonstration will take place at the Kadokawa booth Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva: 2015-10-31 in AnimeJapan 2016 held at Tokyo Big-Sight March 26-27. In addition, a business Artwork by Anastasia Majzhegisheva: 2015-01-03 seminar entitled “Open Source Project of Animation Production Tool” will be held at the Creation Stage on March 26th (11:00-11:45). Nobuo Kawakami, chairman of Dwango and Shun Iwasawa, assistant professor at Tokyo University, will be on stage welcoming Studio’s Ghibli’s Executive Imaging Director Atsushi Okui as a special guest. So, it looks like free software world is going to get a great addition to its animation suite! How this would impact the future of Morevna and Synfig? Obviously a lot! But let’s hold from hasty statements. First, it is still unclear if the source will be released at the same time as free version. At the end, it is still possible that it repeat a sad story of Lightworks (source announced but never released). Even in a “good scenario”, the changes obviously won’t take place immediately, since there are no Linux version of Toonz available (yet?). Still, the announcement looks very promising and we will watch closely for the situation with Toonz. Related Posted in Updates and tagged toonz. ← Production Report #12 Leave a Reply Enter your comment here... Latest News Top Posts & Pages Recent Comments License Toonz goes open-source? Toonz goes open-source? Papagayo packages for Windows | Morevna Project on Packages Production Report #12 Unless stated otherwise, the content of Konstantin Dmitriev on Automatic lipsync Synfig this website is licensed under the in Blender Marya Morevna Artwork Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unnikrishnan V.H (@vhunnikrishnan) on license. Creating lipsync with Synfig About Automatic lipsync in Blender Details... Studio and Papagayo Production Report #11 | Morevna Project Dynamic light test in Synfig Anime on Production Report #7: Style and technique Production Report #11 Tutorials First version of RenderChan plugin for Blender | Morevna Project on RenderChan development news Software Papagayo English.