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Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-giant-rabbits-in-this-one dept.

Supercharged_Z06 writes "A short film entitled Sintel was released by the Blender Foundation under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (YouTube link). It was created by an international team of artists working collaboratively using a free, open source piece of 3D rendering software called Blender. No Hollywood studio was involved in its making. Pretty remarkable what can be generated these days with open source software and some dedicated, creative talent. If a short film of this quality can be produced without Hollywood right now, imagine what will appear a few more years down the road."

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  1. Legal? by RockMFR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this legal? I thought the MPAA cartel automatically owns the copyright to everything. These pirates should pay some sort of fine for attempting to subvert our capitalist democracy. Maybe send them to gitmo.

    1. Re:Legal? by roman_mir · · Score: 5, Funny

      You must be a real joy to hang out with.

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    2. Re:Legal? by uninformedLuddite · · Score: 5, Funny

      What are you his teacher?

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  2. Re:Rendering alone can't make a movie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did all the network packets generated during the project really only pass through free software servers and switches? Were the mics based on unpatented designs and built in-house? THESE THINGS MATTER!

    Imagine if some packet went through a Windows server. The whole project, tainted. Might as well just rm -rf it.

    It's like if you said "I wrote this program all on my own" and then it came out that you didn't do the materials science needed to mine the metals you used to build the electronics that is your computer, and then wrote the OS and the compiler and the editor yourself. Clearly, your program wasn't anything special, I'm not even sure if it could be called 'written by you'.