![]() The Blender Institute estimated that the minimum budget to complete a feature-length open movie would be 2.4 million euros, and roughly 20% of that would be needed at the very start of the project. And although these projects raised considerable sums of money (nearly all greater than 100,000 euros), a feature-length film has much greater financial requirements and more challenging production logistics.Ĭourtesy of the Blender Foundation. ![]() All of the previous open movie projects produced by the Blender Institute received a large proportion of funding from crowdsourced pre-sales, many of them before the advent of more convenient mainstream crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Of course, funding and producing such an ambitious project is no small matter. Its aim was-and to some degree, still is-to be the world's first feature-length animated open film. ![]() ![]() An ambitious planĬosmos Laundromat was born as a much bigger idea than this 10-minute short. Alumni crew from previous open movies are already in planning stages for another open short film, tentatively titled Glass Half. More importantly, however, the experience gives developers understanding and insight for coding projects that begin after production is over.Īll of the Blender Institute's open projects have been released this way, and they're not stopping with Cosmos Laundromat. In the best case, developers can come up with quick (or at least prioritized) solutions during the production. Not only is this a benefit for understanding user interaction, but it really shines a light on pain points and bottlenecks. Developers are on-site and get a very real sense of how artists use (and sometimes abuse) their tools in an actual production environment. It's an open movie! You can!įurthermore, the movie itself serves as a proving ground for the open source tools used to produce it. Want to see what a production character rig looks like? Or know how that giant color tornado was created? How about actually using a character (or just a prop) in your own project? Maybe you even want to redo the entire film to your own tastes. If you're not familiar with the string of open projects that the Blender Institute has kicked out over the years, you might not be familiar with the term "open movie." Simply put, not only is Cosmos Laundromat produced using free and open source tools like Blender, GIMP, Krita, and Inkscape, but the film itself, and all of its assets-models, textures, character rigs, animations, all of it-are available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. It's safe for work, but some folks may not find it appropriate for children.) (Fair warning: Cosmos Laundromat is animation for grown-ups. It's also the Blender Institute's most ambitious project to date, serving as a pilot for the first fully free and open animated feature film. Cosmos Laundromat, or Project Gooseberry for those of us who have been following its production from the start, isn't just a 10-minute short film. At the beginning of August-the 10th, to be exact-the Blender Institute released Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle, its seventh open project (and sixth open movie).
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