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Open Source On the Big Screen
An anonymous reader writes "Following the success of Elephants Dream, the Blender Foundation is developing a follow-on open movie called Peach, set for completion later this year. Computerworld has up an interesting interview with Matt Ebb, lead artist from Elephants Dream (the interview is split over 5 pages). Ebb talks about the making of the world's first open movie and offers some advice to others wanting to start such a project."
Yes, in the open-source world, success is measured differently.
For example, in the land of open-source projects, having a premium "Mrskin.com" account would be the equivalent of "successfully" copping a feel off of Angelina Jolie.
"...It's about time we get some competition, but especially it's time someone makes a 3d program the average slashdot reader can understand and use." Ton Rosendahl I personally cannot wait for Blender to become simple enough for noobs everywhere to start rendering pictures of spheres. The 3d world can never have enough "first renders". Cluestick: Add a light and a camera, or your render will be black. Bonus points if you actually aim your camera at the object to be rendered.
on nikola tesla's life?
But will the movie be safe, Emo? Emo, will it be safe? Emo!
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Yes, in the open-source world, success is measured differently.
For example, in the land of open-source projects, having a premium "Mrskin.com" account would be the equivalent of "successfully" copping a feel off of Angelina Jolie.
Not only that, a fork would actually be copping a feel from Brad Pitt.
Why should the download be 450 megs? Surely you can just download the source code, make sure Blender is installed, and type 'make'?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com