OPEN ANIMATION PROJECTS State of the art. Problems. Perspectives Julia Velkova & Konstantin Dmitriev Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2006 release of ELEPHANT’S DREAM (Blender Foundation) “World’s first open movie” (orange.blender.org) Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2007 start of COLLECT PROJECT (?) “a collective world wide "open source" animation project” Status: suspended shortly after launch URL: http://collectproject.blogspot.se/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2008 release of BIG BUCK BUNNY (Blender Foundation) “a comedy about a fat rabbit taking revenge on three irritating rodents.” URL: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2008 release of SITA SINGS THE BLUES (US) “a musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayan” URL: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2008 start of MOREVNA PROJECT (RUSSIA) “an effort to create full-feature anime movie using Open Source software only” URL: morevnaproject.org Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2009 start of ARSHIA PROJECT (Tinab pixel studio, IRAN) “the first Persian anime” Suspended in 2010 due to “lack of technical knowledge and resources” URL: http://www.tinabpixel.com Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2010 release of PLUMIFEROS (Argentina) “first feature length 3D animation made using Blender” URL: Plumiferos.com Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2010 release of LA CHUTE D’UNE PLUME (pèse plus que ta pudeur) - France “a short French speaking movie made in stop motion” URL: http://lachuteduneplume.free.fr/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2010 start of CHAMBA SWATHANTHRA (Kerala, India) “an ambitious effort to create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre/Open/Mukt) Animation Movie by pooling in contributions from people around the world and funding artists directly” URL: http://www.chambaproject.in Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2010 start of LAMPIBATA (RUSSIA) “Create a great and good looking animation short, licensed freely as open content.” demo released in 2012 URL: http://lampibata.org/?lang=en Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2010 start of PROJECT 2011 (Lithuania) “SciFi type animation short made completely with open source tools” demo released in 2011 URL: http://www.cgex.net/tag/project-2011/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2011 start of OLIVE PROJECT (Tixab Pixel, Iran) “to prepare a place for young animators and artists who mostly do not belong to any professional studios or like to start their professional life somewhere, with other experienced people” URL: http://www.tinabpixel.com Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2011 release of SINTEL (Blender Foundation) “to prepare a place for young animators and artists who mostly do not belong to any professional studios or like to start their professional life somewhere, with other experienced people” URL: http://www.sintel.org Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2011 release of VIAJE A LA TIERRA DEL QUEBRACHO (Argentina) “a fantasy fairy tale that could be a starting point to discover the real story of the villages of the North” URL: http://animacionquebracho.org.ar/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2011 start of TUBE (Urchn studio) “a new experiment in distributed collaboration. It plays on the ancient Gilgamesh poem, in a variant of the hero's progress that becomes the animation's own frames” URL: http://urchn.org/ Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: 2012 release of TEARS OF STEEL (Blender Foundation) “about a group of warriors and scientists, who gathered at the “Oude Kerk” in Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to rescue the world from destructive robots.” URL: http://mango.blender.org Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: So.... - Making open animation films seems to be a challenging task - Lots of enthusiasts to do it, but also lots of failed projects - Most projects - 3D So, wouldn’t it be interesting to hear about 2D films? Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: Thanks. Images & licensing info see notes section of slides. This presentation is licensed under Creative Commons - BY-NC Download presentation at http://www.slideshare.net/JuliaVelkova Saturday, 10 November 12 Week: .