open animation film projects. state of the art, problems and perspectives
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Presentation delivered by Julia Velkova and Konstantin Dmitriev at FSCONS 2012.TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ANIMATION PROJECTS
State of the art. Problems. Perspectives
Julia Velkova & Konstantin Dmitriev
2006release of
ELEPHANT’S DREAM (Blender Foundation)
“World’s first open movie” (orange.blender.org)
2007start of
COLLECT PROJECT (?)
“a collective world wide "open source" animation project”
Status: suspended shortly after launch
URL: http://collectproject.blogspot.se/
2008release of
BIG BUCK BUNNY (Blender Foundation)
“a comedy about a fat rabbit taking revenge on three irritating rodents.”
URL: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org
2008release of
SITA SINGS THE BLUES (US)
“a musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayan”
URL: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/
2008start of
MOREVNA PROJECT (RUSSIA)
“an effort to create full-feature anime movie using Open Source software only”
URL: morevnaproject.org
2009start of
ARSHIA PROJECT (Tinab pixel studio, IRAN)
“the first Persian anime”
URL: http://www.tinabpixel.com
Suspended in 2010 due to “lack of technical knowledge and resources”
2010release of
PLUMIFEROS (Argentina)
“first feature length 3D animation made using Blender”
URL: Plumiferos.com
2010release of
LA CHUTE D’UNE PLUME (pèse plus que ta pudeur) - France
“a short French speaking movie made in stop motion”
URL: http://lachuteduneplume.free.fr/
2010start of
CHAMBA SWATHANTHRA (Kerala, India)
“an ambitious effort to create a Swathanthra (Free/Libre/Open/Mukt) Animation Movie by pooling in contributions from people around the world
and funding artists directly”
URL: http://www.chambaproject.in
2010start of
LAMPIBATA (RUSSIA)
“Create a great and good looking animation short, licensed freely as open content.”
URL: http://lampibata.org/?lang=en
demo released in 2012
2010start of
PROJECT 2011 (Lithuania)
“SciFi type animation short made completely with open source tools”
URL: http://www.cgex.net/tag/project-2011/
demo released in 2011
2011start of
OLIVE PROJECT (Tixab Pixel, Iran)
“to prepare a place for young animators and artists who mostly do not belong to any professional studios or like to start their professional life somewhere,
with other experienced people”
URL: http://www.tinabpixel.com
2011release of
SINTEL (Blender Foundation)
“to prepare a place for young animators and artists who mostly do not belong to any professional studios or like to start their professional life somewhere,
with other experienced people”
URL: http://www.sintel.org
2011release of
VIAJE A LA TIERRA DEL QUEBRACHO (Argentina)
“a fantasy fairy tale that could be a starting point to discover the real story of the villages of the North”
URL: http://animacionquebracho.org.ar/
2011start of
TUBE (Urchn studio)
“a new experiment in distributed collaboration. It plays on the ancient Gilgamesh poem, in a variant of the hero's progress that becomes the
animation's own frames”
URL: http://urchn.org/
2012release of
TEARS OF STEEL (Blender Foundation)
“about a group of warriors and scientists, who gathered at the “Oude Kerk” in Amsterdam to stage a crucial event from the past, in a desperate attempt to
rescue the world from destructive robots.”
URL: http://mango.blender.org
So....
- Making open animation films seems to be a challenging task
- Lots of enthusiasts to do it, but also lots of failed projects
- Most projects - 3D
So, wouldn’t it be interesting to hear about 2D films?
Thanks.
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