blender.org — The Blender Foundation has announced a second open movie 'Peach', their first open movie project 'Orange' was Elephants Dream. Additionally there will be a open game project 'Apricot' in conjunction with Crystal Space. In addition a for profit corporation 'Blender Institutue' will be set up to provide commercial support and development of Blender
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arthursucksJun 11, 2007
Please let it be funny! I showed Elephants Dream to people when talking about blender, and everyone was like "What the hell IS this?"
ishmalJun 11, 2007
A script is a great idea. No script, with the results looking like a lame attempt at Existentialism, is always a bad idea. But actually, you should work from the other direction. Find a story, then decide to make a movie from it. Starting with characters and then looking for a script to drive them is like filling an inside straight in Poker.
knellotronJun 11, 2007
If you're a filmmaker or an educator, an open movie has a huge benefit for you.Well, with a "closed" movie, you can indeed learn quite a lot from watching the movie multiple times, and reading the "making of" material that the studio has chosen to release, but with an open movie, the possibility for learning goes MUCH further. What is unique about "Elephant's Dream" is that you can actually acquire all of the production data... you can study the way the models were built, rigged, and textured, you can learn animation by looking at the walk cycles within the program or tweaking the lip sync, you can see how they managed a workflow from beginning to end... and so on! Basically, what I'm saying is that the "openness" of the movie has an absolutely immense benefit to educators and animation students. In my mind, this was the single greatest success of "Elephant's Dream."
spikeleeJun 11, 2007
Open movies? C'mon I love open source software and all but this is just out there now. The reason I look forward to movies is because I look forward to the artistic nature and the quality story telling of what the director actors and writers offered. The thing about those three categories of people is that they are all on the same page. Movies should be anything but open.
atomic1fireJun 12, 2007
but will it blend( I know Corny, stupid, and a pun off the software name but still)
ares623Jun 12, 2007
liked the first one. can't wait for these. :-Dthe first one was a bit disappointing though. i think they were just trying to show off what blender and open-source cg apps can do.
fkttJun 12, 2007
@ares623: on the first one the main coal was to improve blender itself, so is with this one, but this time they will be a lot more serious about the story(with sago in and all that jazz[hes got a great sense of humor!])
klaskaeruJun 13, 2007
Only great things can come out of these projects ...Lots of improvement in blender source code (hair and fur , rendering and speed improvement :P)And a lot of people will have (again) the possibility to learn from the files used in the movie (or game).Ah , really it's nice to be a part of this community .@spikelee : "Movies should be anything but open."Hum , and what about a really good open movie ? (don't get me wrong , elephants dream was not bad at all , strange story OK , but not bad)I mean , this will happen sooner or later , but it will happen for sure. Add a "blender institute" to that and it'll happen sooner than we think .Peace :) .