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Well I remember a little application called blender when it was but an infant. Pre version 1 release and was a great deal of fun to mess around with. 3D render was cool when you have always dreamed of doing things like that. I am talking round about 10 years ago. Incredible how tie flies.

Anyways back to the post. In my travels across the internet I came across little blender again. Although now it is not so little! With the little bit of browsing and playing I have done with it, it is becoming a fully fledge 3D animation studio and the best part? It is free. No really it is. They happily accept donations but you don’t have to pay a cent to get the software. I have no idea how the project is funded but what I did really like is the community around the project.

I have never heard of the concept of “open movie” and initially thought it to be a piece of software but it is something very different. I am no expert in it but what it seems to be is a community of artists (3D, video and audio) who get together and create a movie using open source technologies. (I personally would like to know what video editing software they use because I haven’t found any open source ones.) This sounds really cool but what I think is the ultimate is that they distribute certain assets of the movie. The one asset I saw them sharing was the 3D models from the movie. I personally recon this is brilliant. Characters now have the ability to live outside the context of the creating studio, there by giving them a life of there own. So often guys have had to take screen shots of videos and then edit them specifically to give the illusion that they might be in a different scene. Now you can do that yourself. Take the character and recast them in a different movie. So now the 3D characters are just like real life actors without out the attitude and enormous pay cheques.

Well don’t take my word for it but rather check it out at http://www.blender.org . It really is a worth while way to spend 15 minutes and perhaps far more time if it is your thing. I personally have an idea for the software already. Big thanks to the guys developing this software. Your time is appreciated more than you can imagine.

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