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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