[DMCA-Activists] Movie Freedom

[Seth Johnson]

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Subject: [CFSG-forum] This is going to be cool
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Selso DaSilva <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden


http://orange.blender.org/cms/Home.553.0.html

After months of silent work behind the scenes, I'm very proud to
announce the following:
The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D
Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite
Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp,
and Cinepaint.

Open Movie
Not only will the project be realized with Open Source/Free
Software, but also the resulting movie - including all the
production files and software - will be published under an open
public license. This makes it an exciting premiere as first ever
"Open Movie" project! The movie will be rendered on film
resolution, becomes available on DVD and is targeted to be
transfered to film for theatres.

Studio
We will establish a temporal animation studio, in the Media Art
Instute in Amsterdam, based on a core team consisting of artists
as well as at least one software developer. The studio will offer
positions to people based on fixed targets, which they possibly
can execute in shorter periods as well. Next to this core team,
contributions will be organized for volunteers to execute
externally (working from own area of residence).

Production
The production will be executed during the period September 2005
- March 2006, for a maximum duration of six months. Budget and
resources have been allocated for a six person workshop during
the entire period. The team will be supported by the Producers'
staff - like PR and production management - and external
facilities like for Scripting, Rendering, Music, Voices, Audio
Effects and Editing.

In my role as Executive Producer for the movie short, I have
approached Bassam Kurdali to become Animation Director, and
Andreas Goralczyk to become Art Director. I'm very happy both
have agreed to join! Together we now work on the creative concept
and will decide on completing the team.

Call for participation
In order to make this project - code named 'Orange' - to be
become a huge success, we will need the support and contributions
of many people. Especially in this stage, we would like to do a
public call for:

- Artists / developers who like to join as 'core team member'
- Sponsors, either financial, or for equipment or rendering farms
- Software support; cooperation with other graphics based open
source projects

Additional information and contact details can be found on the
pages of the orange.blender.org website.

Ton Roosendaal. Amsterdam, May 23, 2005

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