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A good idea ...
... would perhaps be to try to redirect the money to The Internet Movie Project
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Our dream is to create a movie with the POV-Ray raytracer,
as a collaborative effort of many people from all over the world,
just for the fun of it, "because it can be done" -
very much like POV-Ray itself is developed.
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or a similar instance
Yes, I am daydreaming.
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Re:OSS?
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Re:Woah!You mean the imp web-mail software? They already have GMail. Or you were thinking The Internet Movie Project, which is pretty cool, too.
Just picking...glinux and gimp don't really tease the same way...
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IMP
imp is a POV-RAY based distibuted renderfarm for Win or Lin.
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...But our farm does this already ;)
I agree that it is not workable for Dreamworks on many levels. However, that does not mean that render@home as a concept is not feasible. We are already doing distributed rendering for the Internet Movie Project.
An example 10MB animation shows what amateur hobbiests can do as a collaboration. The statistics from the render farm for that particular animation show the frames were rendered on very diverse machines running different operating systems from all over the world.
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Sounds like imp.orgThe Internet Movie Project has its renderfarm software on sourceforge
My big question is why would you rather donate to a large commercial organization well funded from it's previous Shreck flick -- rather than donate the cycles to a project like the IMP works themselves?
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Re:Slashdot BLOG advertising...
that, and the question being obviously not a good idea makes me wonder why this is even an acceptable story.
if you want to spend your time rending frames of animations, check out the Internet Movie Project
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Re:Unless - LOTR - the Slashdot Edition
We don't think it is a joke, rather we think it is fun. We do have an active global distributed renderfarm. We are currently making shorts, and will start pre-production on a feature length CGI film next year.
However, we do realize the amount of work involved. Our framework for making open source movies for the public domain is still developing, and there is still a long road ahead of us. Check out the site to see where we are.
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Re:Unless - LOTR - the Slashdot Edition
Well.. if you can do your magic with povray, join the Internet Movie Project.
Then you have a lot of machines to do the rendering and you will perhaps find someone to help you out a bit with that project.
The first step however is to decide what exactly you want and after that it only needs to be done.
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Re:Distributed Effort
there already is...
Internet movie project
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Re:Perplexed
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Some folks are producing a feature film this way!
Seriously! The entire thing is being done in POV-RAY, with both models and renderings available online!
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Internet Movie ProjectAs far as collaborative, web-based artwork, the Internet Movie Project has been going on for a while now. There is also the IRTC Group Image Project which is a collaborative, web-based art endeavor.
Of course, in both of these cases, the projects are not being done blindly; everybody who contributes has some idea of the bigger picture (pun may or may be intended; it's early yet).
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Re:Distributed Rendering Productions
Should have looked harder before shooting my mouth off. The Internet Movie Project
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Re:Distributed.mov?
That's the Internet Movie Project
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Re:What Else can we distribute?
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The Internet Movie Project exists alreadyWell, <URL:http://www.imp.org/> works for me at least (the domain name was set up in December). If you can't reach it, could you be more specific as to what the problem is? Mail me directly; there's no need to bother Slashdot readers with local network trouble (and I have enough trouble reaching Slashdot to tell you this, since I don't know your e-mail address).
However, you could also check the initial project website at <URL:http://www.algonet.se/%7Ejhubert/Mov ieProject/> (that space is in the anchor text only, not in the actual URL) which still links to all the relevant material.
I'd rather not try to describe the project here, since I would be duplicating their own web info. Studio-quality? Yes, if you count television/video (as opposed to cinema) quality. GPL? No, but public enough for me. One has to register as a member in order to take part in the project, but much of it is visible to non-members as well. The distribution details haven't been worked out in detail, but as I understand it, the result will be made available for free (see the membership agreement for legal details).
As for high-quality script, I don't think you will be disappointed reading what has been done so far. I wasn't.
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The Internet Movie Project exists already
While I may have my doubts about your claim, I think you would be interested in joining the Internet Movie Project established less than a year ago. Ok, that web page may look pretty beta, and don't expect a fast race, but there are some serious minds out there willing to spend part of their spare time scripting, modelling, directing, and rendering an entire movie using PoV-Ray. Look around and see if you want to contribute.