2014 VIDEO: OPEMSIM: Blender institute, Project Gooseberry, crowd funding

Blender institute, Project Gooseberry, crowd funding
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About Project Gooseberry : “We are going to bring together the best of the open source CG talents to work on a 3D animation feature film.”

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• Watch on YouTube

Crowd funding

• Support the Gooseberry Project
• Project Gooseberry, why it matters
• Read all about it!

Background

"Blender Institute is internationally well known for pioneering using Open Content production as a development model for Open and Free Software. Since 2005, five projects have been realised this way, including the short films Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, Sintel and Tears of Steel...."

Previous projects

The Blender foundation

The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source 3D content-creation program.  

Studios and artists involved

• Autour de Minuit
• The Blender Institute 
• Character Mill
• CG Cookie
• David Revoy
• Gecko Animation
• Ideas Fijas
• Kampoong Monster
• Studio Lumikuu
• Mad Entertainment
• Ovni VFX
• Poked Studio
• Pataz Studio
• Pitchi Poy
• Vivify

News and Notes

• April treasure hunt on Kitely open now
• http://www.kitely.com/virtual-world/Sierra-Jakob/April-Hunt-LAUNCH-POINT
• Videos from VWBPE Conference 2014
• VWBPE Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference: Apr. 9-13 2014 
• Marie interviews Kevin Feenan (SL: Phelan Corrimal) about VWBPE 
• Virtual Ability Artists Featured in International Art Event at the University of Western Australia
• Kitely working on full Hypergrid connection.  Maybe connection by end of April 

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Art in virtual worlds

• Art done in virtual worlds Summary
• Linden Endowment for the Arts

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Video-Machinima in virtual worlds

• New Media Arts, Inc
• Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Hobbies: Doing video/machinima in virtual worlds
• Music Videos from virtual worlds Summary 
• Art videos from the virtual world
• Comedy videos from the Virtual World

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