How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better

An anonymous reader writes: At the beginning of August the Blender Institute released Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle, its seventh open project. More than just a 10-minute short film, Cosmos Laundromat is the Blender Institute's most ambitious project, a pilot for the first fully free and open animated feature film. In his article on Opensource.com animator and open source advocate Jason van Gumster highlights the film project and takes a look at some of its most significant contributions to the Blender open source project.

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We're still stuck with Big Buck Bunny as a demo

[Anonymous Coward]

The new short opens up with a sheep committing suicide by hanging. Pretty fucking grim and absolutely not something that can be used as a demo when showing what Blender can do or as something to run on embedded devices to demonstrate video playback.

Re:We're still stuck with Big Buck Bunny as a demo

[ciaran2014]

> Pretty fucking grim and absolutely not something that can be used as a demo

What? It's a sheep, and the branch breaks and falls on his head. If you think people will find that off-puttingly grim, then I think you've underestimated your audience (or you have a weird audience).

Or jump to whatever happy part you prefer.

In any case, the quality is amazing. The grass, for example.