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Open Source movie ready!
After months of work the Orange team has finally finished working on
the realization of the first fully open source animation movie, Elephants Dream.  Elephants Dream DVDs, click to enlarge 3D modelling, animating and rendering has been done with Blender, the open source multiplatform 3D software. During the film's development, several new features, such as hair and fur rendering, were added into Blender especially for the project; the next version of this software, most probably numbered 2.42, will be updated with, among the rest, all the features specifically developed for Elephants Dream.  Proog, click to enlarge The film's content will be released under the Creative Commons Attribution license, so that viewers may learn from it and use it however they please. The DVDs will contain all the production files (3D models, textures, animation) in addition to the final movie, in both PAL and NTSC. High resolution versions will also be delivered.
 Emo, click to enlarge Ton Roosendaal, Blender creator and chairman of the Blender Foundation, is the producer of project orange, responsible for planning, overall coordination and “big picture” decisions. The project is a co-production of Montevideo and Blender Foundation. Substantial contributions to the projects came from the presales of the DVDs. To acquire the DVDs or learn more, check the Project Orange or the Blender websites.
08.May.2006 Leo |
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Comments (9)
GNU was developed on proprietary UNIX before the Linux kernel came around. Linux itself was developed on the fairly restricted Minix. The end-result is what counts.
Is the product libre? Are the base building blocks libre? Are the tools to modify libre and cross-platform? Is the modified result not restricted by Tivo-ization? If all four are yes, it does not matter if the initial development OS was proprietary.
Just fire up Blender on GNU/Linux or *BSD and edit away.
There is one area where Free Software is truly taking the lead:
"Religious Fanaticism"
It used to be that I poo-poo'd claims that Linux/FLOSS was a religion. But now I am sad to say that I can't. It has become a religion to (too) many.
In fact, history will show that as being its downfall. (That's my too late for end of 2005, too early for end of 2006 prediction.)
And I hope I am proven wrong! But I fear I won't be.
Relax. FOSS has always been a religion for some. It always will be. Many of the more rigid discussions you see today border on word-by-word reiterations of things said 5-6-7 years ago.
It may be a tad worse among the fanatic folk -- Linux and FOSS have become mainstream (if not majority) choices. How do you maintain your specialness when everybody is getting clued in to the secret?
Some choose to become more rabid.
Fortunately, the community is larger, more diverse, and more robust than ever. The very fact that we could have some of the discussions we've had around Linspire (and that Linspire exists) is proof of that.
Leave the zealots to their zeal. Not much you can do about them, anyway. For the rest of us, life is good and getting better.
There are only two "downs."
signed, the Ministry of NitPicks
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