How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 2, 2015 @08:26AM from the making-it-better dept.

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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Re:Oh finally, a new sample video by aNonnyMouseCowered · 2015-09-02 12:00 · Score: 4, Informative

The Blender Institute has made two other short movies since Bx3. The full chronology of the "major" (being a relative term) Blender open movie projects:
1) Elephants Dream (2006)
2) Big Buck Bunny (2008)
3) Sintel (2010)
4) Tears of Steel (2012)
Tears of Steel is "live action" but has enough frame by frame CGI effects to qualify as animation. The current project is part of its first full-length feature ("full-length" being again a relative term as the movie is projected to last less than an hour).