Cosmos Laundromat
Cosmos Laundromat (Gooseberry Open Movie Project) | |
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Concept art for a scene from the film | |
Directed by | Mathieu Auvray |
Produced by | Ton Roosendaal |
Distributed by | Blender Foundation |
Country | Netherlands |
Language | English |
Cosmos Laundromat, developed under the code name Gooseberry Movie Project, is an in-development film project by the Blender Foundation. Ton Roosendaal announced the project in January 2010.[1][2] The studio lineup was set in January 2014.[3] Story board[4] and project targets[5] were announced in March. A crowd funding campaign also started in the same period.[6] The film is to be written and produced by a coalition of more than 12 international animation studios around the globe. Work is expected to take 18 months, with 60–80 people participating full-time.[7]
Following Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, and Tears of Steel, the short movie is the fifth movie project from the Blender Foundation. It was created by the Blender Institute, a division of the foundation set up specifically to facilitate the creation of open content films and games.[8] The film is intended to pilot release in beginning of 2015 and premiere by end. It's a full-length film, expected to run 90 minutes. The film itself and any material made in the studio are released under the Creative Commons Attribution License.[9] The initial ten minute pilot was released onto YouTube on August 10, 2015.[10] It won the SIGGRAPH 2016 Computer Animation Festival Jury's Choice award. [11] Through the funding raised for production of the film, the Blender Foundation was able to improve on existing or add new features to the software product.[12]
Plot
The story is a humourous, absurdist, adventurous love story about a sheep named Franck, who longs for a more interesting life.[13]
Project goals
The goals of Gooseberry Project, according to Ton Roosendaal, are to raise the bar for their institute, in that they are making a feature-length animated film; investigate the use of cloud services for open-source projects; and to create a new business model for the Blender Foundation.[14]
References
- ↑ Bart. "Project Gooseberry announced". BlenderNation.
- ↑ http://www.blender.org/bf/sig2013.pdf
- ↑ gooseberry.blender.org/gooseberry-studio-line-up/
- ↑ "Moodboard » Cosmos Laundromat - The Gooseberry Open Movie Project". blender.org.
- ↑ "Software Goals » Cosmos Laundromat - The Gooseberry Open Movie Project". blender.org.
- ↑ "Sponsors » Cosmos Laundromat - The Gooseberry Open Movie Project". blender.org.
- ↑ http://gooseberry.blender.org/wp-content/themes/gooseberry/
- ↑ "Gooseberry Project - Blender Star". blenderstar.com.
- ↑ "Project Gooseberry: Full-length CC BY animated film". Creative Commons.
- ↑ Cosmos Laundromat - First Cycle. Official Blender Foundation release. YouTube. 10 August 2015.
- ↑ "SIGGRAPH 2016 SIGGRAPH 2016 ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS AND HIGHLIGHTS OF 43RD ANNUAL COMPUTER ANIMATION FESTIVAL". s2016.siggraph.org.
- ↑ "How open film project Cosmos Laundromat made Blender better". opensource.com.
- ↑ "Open source tools, content, and process for Project Gooseberry film". opensource.com.
- ↑ Blender Foundation. "Project Gooseberry, why it matters - blender.org - Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software". blender.org.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cosmos Laundromat. |
- Official website
- Project's Teaser
- Cosmos Laundromat at the Internet Movie Database
- Cosmos Laundromat: First Cycle at archive.org