Hi everyone! I'm here to talk about project Gooseberry!

[mStuff]

First off, I am in no way connected to the Blender Foundation in any sort of official business, though I am a daily user of their software, Blender3D. I have been lurking the linustechtips channel for years now, and I love the content. I have searched the forums and it seems like no one has mentioned Blender Foundation's latest project and what it is about. If this thread is debated to not be under the "tech" category, feel free to move it to another, more appropriate category.

 

 

Straight to the point:

Blender Foundation has announced project Gooseberry, the very first fully open-source, creative commons animation feature film, and crowd-funded

launch trailer

The story, as the CEO of Blender Foundation Ton Roosendaal describes, is about a sheep that is bored with his ordinary life, finds a merchant that offers him new and exciting lives that he can try out for 5 minutes each. Each of these parallel universe-lives are made by 12 different studios around the world, and everyone produces the film in the same software, Blender3D. The film is still in it's preproduction / crowd-funding stage, so additional information is sparse.

short documentary about the launch

 

The project has had a lot of attention from Blender users and CG-artists on the various Computer Graphics forums, but it seems like not many people from other places knows about it yet.

This is the official site for the project http://gooseberry.blender.org/, and as you can see on the bottom, it needs funding. If anyone finds this project interesting, please consider donating !

 

The funding will be used for several things, like the obvious production costs of all the studios working on the film. Otherwise funds will help the developers expand Blender's features and stability to have it work perfectly to let anyone create anything in Blender.

 

I know it's a busy week with all the exciting stuff happening at GDC 2014, but to have Linus and Luke mention this project in the WAN-show would surely help out a lot!

 

Blender Foundation have already had a lot of success creating short films and games inside Blender;

 

Caminandes: Gran Dilemma

 

Tears of Steel

 

Sintel

 

Big Buck Bunny

 

Yo Frankie!

http://www.yofrankie.org/

 

Elephants Dream

 

Blender3D: http://www.blender.org/

 

Cheers!

[mStuff]

I'm not sure this has anything to do with consumer electronics

 

Would it be possible to move the thread to off-topic instead? Thanks!

[mStuff]

Or maybe better yet; if the thread is considered tech news, it could probably be moved to the tech news and reviews section ?

[Fred Castellum]

This would technically fall under tech news.

[mStuff]

It seems like I failed in getting Linus' and Slick's attention about this before this week's WAN show, I will see if they will consider mentioning it next week. Do you guys think this is something suitable for the WAN show? The world's first open source animation movie is pretty huge in some areas of the internet.

By the way, I feel like this thread is kind of trapped here on consumer electronics, I hope someone will move it soon.

[Nineshadow]

Mmm...Blender <3

[mStuff]

I've started to lose faith in getting any attention from this forum, but I will post this update anyway http://www.blender.org/press/project-gooseberry-why-it-matters/

[mStuff]

Maybe some of you guys are unsure of what the learning material and open source resources would be like,

http://gooseberry.blender.org/robot-making-of-design-with-sheep-in-mind/#more-291

http://gooseberry.blender.org/wolf-making-of-sparks-and-smoke/

http://gooseberry.blender.org/caterpillar-making-of-animating-uvs/

http://gooseberry.blender.org/teaser-full-sound-edit-release/

 

most production data will start being distributed as soon as the Blender Cloud is up and running fully

[mStuff]