Blender Foundation to Create Open Movie, Open Game

Eloquence writes "The Blender Foundation, which maintains the open source 3D tool Blender, has announced two new projects, codenamed Peach and Apricot. Project Peach will be a new open source movie, following in the footsteps of last year's Elephants Dream project (which was initially codenamed Orange). Apricot, on the other hand, will use Blender in conjunction with open source 3D framework Crystal Space to create an open game, thereby showcasing both technologies."

Re:This will be interesting

[nEoN nOoDlE]

It will gain the public eye if it's any good. It doesn't matter if it's open and people could download the texture libraries - that only interests other artists - it only matters if it's good to watch.

Re:This will be interesting

[Lumpy]

Indie movies have ALWAYS been recognized. Lately the "indie scene" is far less indie and more big studios hiding who they are.

Indie movies do not have a 1.4 million dollar budget like many of the ones listed for this years sundance festival.

Download and watch elephants dream. It is a technical example and not a well written story but it was designed to prove and in essence broadcast a loud STFU to all the maya and lighwave weenies that still proclaim that blender is not a professional tool capable of anything decent.

They produced a pixar quality animation with free stuff that YOU can have in your home. The next project is going to focus on a good storyline and probably get submitted to many festivals.

Re:name ?

[Lumpy]

Why??

when you give out the script, and all assets used to make the movie such as t he actors, models, sets, etc... I would definitely call that a open source movie.

Espically when you can take that source and create the movie at home. Or even tweak it so the movie is different in your way.

Re:should be good

[Anonymous Coward]

I liked 'elephants dream', though I agree it was dense and confusing. Not such a bad thing.

There is a lot of art like this, and it's usually people's first attempts.
They start off with huge complex plots, profound world shaking ideas, and amazing vistas of imagination.

What they don't do is think 'hey, how about we animate a lamp on a desk?'. It takes seasoned professionals to attempt something as ambitious as that. :)

You get the same thing in cinema, drama, music. It's not till you have been doing it for years that you start to see how you can affect people with little movements, expressions and cues, and that you don't have to make everything important and huge.

Re:This will be interesting

[2short]

I generally agree with everything you said, but it's not really open-source that's the problem there. It's poorly focused development. This is certainly more prevalent in the open-source world, but it's not required. "Battle for Wesnoth", for example, maintains a well focused development effort despite being open-source, and is quite excellent.