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One of the recent posts unexpectedly garnered a large number of likes. This is a record to date. At the same time, the screenshot itself isn’t even new and has already been posted for the second time.

I’ll turn the calendar over and… make another calendar. I’m starting work on the Morrowind Screenshots calendar for 2027. There are no changes planned for the design. The main task is to select 12 more screenshots, each of which you can look at for a whole month without experiencing pain. If you like a screenshot on the project website mwscr.dehero.ru/posts more than other, please send the link in the comments. It might be included in the 2027 selection.

As they say, today I learned that Lego Duplo and regular Lego are compatible with each other. It’s a metaphor for growing up.

I decided to recreate some pre-release screenshots from Morrowind in a higher resolution. I found the location, set the angle, picked the time of day, weather and weapons for the first such shot. All that remains is to call the opponent.

Bethesda seems to have done this once too. The last frame is from an earlier build during development, which they clearly recreated for the release.

I updated my website a bit. I made everything bigger — the previous version was too small. I split the links into groups: Download, Follow, Write — so they are easier to perceive. And I added a page about this blog.

What if a follower sent a great screenshot for Morrowind Screenshots, without any violations, but it does not fit into the square? The project has rigidly defined and familiar proportions of posts, part of its identity: square shots, square compilations, horizontal and vertical wallpapers… Each aspect ratio has its own type of post.

I thought about this question for a long time, even postponing the shooting of new screenshots. And the solution was finally born and implemented. It’s simple: each post type now supports more than one aspect ratio. But you can always understand what kind of post it is by the proportions of the image. As before.

What has changed for the content? There is a new 3:2 format for regular shots. This is what is needed for many of the followers’ works. Previously, they had to be ruthlessly cut to a 1:1 square, losing details around the edges, or compromise, believing that we are not looking at an ordinary shot, but a desktop wallpaper. Now it is much easier to preserve the author’s idea and the harmony of the frame in such cases. A vertical 9:16 format for clips has appeared, which is not yet used, but it provides a basis for the publication of reels in the future.

Well, the wallpaper is now universal: you can lay out both a horizontal landscape 16:9 and a vertical one for a smartphone 9:19.5, and all this is one type of post. In addition, the collections have become more logical: if earlier they were strictly square, now they can be of any of the available aspect ratios, which allows you to create collections not only of ordinary shots, but also wallpapers and clips, if they are all of the same aspect ratio.

Bye, last year. Goodbye, last year’s calendar with Statham, which was one of the sources of inspiration for the Morrowind Screenshots calendar. Hello, unknown future. Happy New Year to everyone!

Here’s the last thing for the calendar — a magnetic cursor made of wood. Thanks to @valentyfire and my wife for helping me make it. Everything else is ready. The edition is in print.

I printed a second test copy of the calendar, this time in English. Working with color and high-density paper dramatically improved the print quality. I think the difference is noticeable even in the photo. I am pleased with the result and am going to print the first small edition. And I need to solve the packaging issue so that the calendars can travel safely.

I was too optimistic sending the calendar layout to print as it was. First I had to make a color proof, and then print the first copy. But I did it the other way around, and the screenshots on the print became too dark and pale, and some were extremely dark (as in the left column). But the first copy is needed to catch different mistakes. Now, having done a color test, I know how to better prepare the layout for printing. At the same time, I corrected the month of Nerevarine’s landing on Vvardenfell.

Here is the result of my idea, which you could have guessed from the teaser: the Morrowind Screenshots wall calendar for 2026, the first and so far the only one of its kind. Let me know in the poll below if you want one too.

I decided to make one thing. Here’s a little teaser - a cover layout. What do you think this is?

autumn leaves

I started by compacting the list of parameters on the Morrowind Screenshots website. Left — before, right — after. I’m worried that the project has been on autopilot for a couple of months, without new screenshots. I need to fix this.

dacha tv

peterthefirst nizhniypark

The angle and the moment of time change everything. Vivec brings rain. Vivec raises the sun. Vivec holds Baar Dau. Vivec is confused. And I’m sure these are not all the meanings that can be given to this statue in a shot.

There is a AI that can zoom in on a piece of an image, much like forensic scientists in Hollywood movies zoom in on a surveillance camera image to any infinite resolution. I decided to check how AI would zoom in on the statue of Saint Delyn from a recent shot. There is an old theory that Lenin is a mushroom. Now we know that Delyn is a mushroom too.

old theory

Today I tested a new algorithm for Morrowind Screenshots, which generates pictures from posts just like this. I want to use it as a single form for publishing stories in the project channels. The first story of this kind was posted on Instagram today. All that remains is to teach the project to automatically publish stories in other profiles.