Presentation delivered by Julia Velkova and Konstantin Dmitriev at FSCONS 2012.

1. OPEN ANIMATION PROJECTS
State of the art. Problems. Perspectives
State of the art. Problems. Perspectives
State of the art. Problems. Perspectives
State of the art. Problems. Perspectives
Julia Velkova & Konstantin Dmitriev

2. 2006
release of
ELEPHANT’S DREAM (Blender Foundation)
“World’s first open movie” (orange.blender.org)

3. 2007
start of
COLLECT PROJECT (?)
“a collective world wide "open source" animation project”
Status: suspended shortly after launch
URL: http://collectproject.blogspot.se/

4. 2008
release of
BIG BUCK BUNNY (Blender Foundation)
“a comedy about a fat rabbit taking revenge on three irritating rodents.”
URL: http://www.bigbuckbunny.org

5. 2008
release of
SITA SINGS THE BLUES (US)
“a musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the
Ramayan”
URL: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/

6. 2008
start of
MOREVNA PROJECT (RUSSIA)
“an effort to create full-feature anime movie using Open Source software only”
URL: morevnaproject.org

7. 2009
start of
ARSHIA PROJECT (Tinab pixel studio, IRAN)
“the first Persian anime”
Suspended in 2010 due to “lack of technical knowledge and resources”
URL: http://www.tinabpixel.com

8. 2010
release of
PLUMIFEROS (Argentina)
“first feature length 3D animation made using Blender”
URL: Plumiferos.com

9. 2010
release 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/

10. 2010
start 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

11. 2010
start of
LAMPIBATA (RUSSIA)
“Create a great and good looking animation short, licensed freely as open content.”
demo released in 2012
URL: http://lampibata.org/?lang=en

12. 2010
start of
PROJECT 2011 (Lithuania)
“SciFi type animation short made completely with open source tools”
demo released in 2011
URL: http://www.cgex.net/tag/project-2011/

13. 2011
start 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

14. 2011
release 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

15. 2011
release 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/

16. 2011
start 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/

17. 2012
release 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

18. 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?

19. Thanks.
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