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Blender's Open Movie Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-dialogue-then-ROTS dept.

MrAndrews writes "I just read on the Blender home page that Ton Roosendaal is going to be creating an open movie project called "Orange", which should kick off development sometime in the fall: "The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, and Cinepaint." Moreover: "... the resulting movie - including all the production files and software - will be published under an open public license." Open source entertainment is another step closer to reality!"

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  1. The tools used by LetterRip · · Score: 3, Informative

    Since they will be using Blender, you might be interested in the upcoming features that the next release will have along with some of the scripts available

    have a look at the development digest

    http://cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=233256

    Blender now has manipulators and universal undo - two things that lots of slashdotters complained were missing the last time Blender was mentioned on slashdot.

    LetterRip

  2. Re:Trying to understand the point by Beolach · · Score: 3, Informative
    What I suppose is interesting about this is that the final product will be open and available for others to use. Free from copyright, so to speak. It seems like a nice idea, much like Creative Commons, but it doesn't seem like some really huge step forward in any respect.
    Sorry for the double reply, but this is a common misconception that I forgot to mention in my other post. Open Source does not mean free from copyright. Many Open Source licenses have stipulations on what you are required to do in order the use the licensed material in a certain way - for example, the GPL states that if you make any derivitive works, those derivitive works must also be licensed under the GPL. It is only because the material licensed under the GPL is protected by copyright that the GPL can make this stipulation. If the material was not protected by copyright (in the public domain), then anyone could use it in any way they wanted, without abiding by any stipulations of any license agreement.
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  3. Wouldn't it make more sense ... by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... to join the Free Film Project, instead of making another independent project?

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  4. Verse by Emil+Brink · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heh. As a full-time developer of the related technology, I'm glad the mention of Verse survived into the blurb!

    Verse is a low-level data model, network protocol and programming API for dealing with distributed applications involving 3D graphics and audio. It is completely open and distributed under a BSD license so you can use it in any kind of application.

    For details, see the top-level Uni-Verse site (toplevel page about the current research project). If you're a developer, perhaps heading directly to the Verse pages is more interesting. You could also check out the specification for the Verse core technology. Or why not just surf the CVS and read some code? :)

    If you have questions, you could drop by #verse on FreeNode, or use the mailing list. More developers would certainly not hurt.

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